Multinationals As Flagship Firms: Regional Business Networks

by Alan M. Rugman, Joseph R. D'Cruz

Overview

The international dimension of business networks has remained relatively unexplored, mainly because international business writers focus upon multinational enterprises and network writers ignore international issues. In this book Professors Alan Rugman and Joseph D'Cruz bridge the literature on networks and multinationals by introducing the new concept of the flagship firm.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199258185
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/15/2003
Series:	Regional Business Networks
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Alan Rugman is Thames Water Fellow in Strategic Management, Templeton College, University of Oxford. Previous positions have included Professor of International Business, University of Toronto (19871998); Professor of International Business, Delhousie University (19801987); and Visiting Professor at Brandeis University, UCLA, Western Washington University, and Columbia Business School.

Joseph R. D'Cruz is Professor of Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He also consults widely with multinational corporations in the areas of global strategy and international operations. (Major clients include ICI, Exxon Corporation, Price Waterhouse, and DSM.) He was awarded the Touche Ross Award for the best article in Business Quarterly entitled The Globalization of Manufacturing (with Professor Fleck).

Professors Rugman and D'Cruz are co-editors of the Kodak series of studies on Canada's international competitiveness.

Table of Contents

IntroductionPart I: The Concept of the Flagship FirmChapter 1: The Flagship Firm and the Five Partners Business NetworkChapter 2: Corporate Strategy and the Flagship FirmChapter 3: Internalization and De-internalization: Will Business Networks Replace Multinationals?Part II: Multinational Enterprise Theory and the Flagship FirmChapter 4: Partners Across Borders: Organizational Learning and the Flagship FirmChapter 5: The Theory of the Flagship FirmChapter 6: The Canadian Telecommunications Industry NetworkChapter 7: The French Telecommunications NetworkPart III: Case Studies of Flagship Business NetworksChapter 8: The Canadian Speciality Chemicals NetworkChapter 9: The Five Partners/Flagship Model and the Scottish Electronics ClusterChapter 10: The North American Automotive ClusterChapter 11: Managerial Implications of Flagship Relationships