The major changes in strategy and structure in MNEs increasing levels of global integration, innovation by design, new network structures, outsourcing of major value-chain activities, E-commerce and the backlash against globalization.
This special issue includes an overview of the integration-responsiveness framework.
Note from the Guest Editors.- Multinational Strategy and Structure: A Review and Research Agenda.- A New Perspective on the Integration-Responsiveness Pressures Confronting Multinational Firms.- Multinationals, Reverse Diffusion and National Business Systems.- Global Versus Multidomestic: Culture's Consequences on Innovation.- Contextual Moderating Effects and the Relationship of Firm-Specific Resources, Strategy, Structure and Performance among Japanese Multinational Enterprises.- Managing International Technology Transfer Risk: Alternatives and Complements to Ownership Structure. David Brock, Senior Lecturer, Department of Business Administration, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Julian Birkinshaw, Associate Professor, Strategic and International Management, London Business School, London, UK.
