Multinational corporations (MNCs) are frequently pictured as being at the vanguard of global integration. They face strong incentives to maximize economies of scale in research and development, purchasing, production and marketing, and encounter low barriers in the dissemination of technologies and best practices. This special issue brings together various papers that focus on different aspects of the tension between global and local within MNCs.

Internationale Unternehmen als Vorreiter der Globalisation: Erfahrungsberichte

Vorwort
Local Corporations going Global: Experiences

Autorentext
Professor DR. Niels G. Noorderhaven is Professor of International Management at Tilburg University, The Netherlands.

Inhalt
Guest Editor's Introduction.- An Empirical Analysis of the Corporate Effect: The Impact of the Multinational Corporation on the Performance of Its Units Worldwide.- The Performance Implications of a Global Integration Strategy in Global Industries: An Empirical Investigation Using Inter-area Product Flows.- The Country-of-origin Effect in Multinational Corporations: Sources, Mechanisms and Moderating Conditions.- The Art of Knowledge Transfer: Secondary and Reverse Transfer in China's Telecommunications Manufacturing Industry.- Internal Diversity and Culture's Consequences: Branch/Head Office Relations in a German Financial MNC.