The strategic development of multinationals: Subsidiaries and innovation

The chapters in this book provide detailed analyses of a range of issues that feed into an overview of the strategic development of the MNE over the past 40 years. This modeled as the evolution of the MNE from a multidomestic hierarchy to a network hierarchy to the contemporary strategic diversity of the heterarchy. The extensive range of empirical and conceptual analysis covers the strategic roles and competitive evolution of subsidiaries; the positioning of R & D labs of MNEs; how MNEs' R & D and product development programmes relate to, and affect the performance of, countries' national systems of innovation; the ways in which dispersed subsidiaries and labs now work to support both the effective use of current competitive technologies and the generation of new sources of competitiveness for global firms. An underlying theme of the book, that is also developed conceptually, is how the global operations of MNEs involve selective involvement with national economies and the implications of this for globalization and economic development.

Subsidiaries, Innovation and the Strategic Development of Multinationals; M. Papanastassiou & R. PearceCreative Transition and the Role of MNE Subsidiaries in Host-country Industrialisation; R. Pearce & M. PapanastassiouStrategic Internalisation and the Growth of the Multinational Firm; R. Pearce, M. Papanastassiou & F. FilippaiosTechnology Sourcing in Multinational Enterprises and the Roles of Subsidiaries: an Empirical Investigation; D. Manolopoulos, M. Papanastassiou & R. PearceStrategic Heterogeneity and MNEs' Investments in the Integrating European Economy; D. Dimitropoulou, R. Pearce & M. PapanastassiouTo "Almost See the World": Hierarchy and Strategy in Hymer's View of the Multinational; R. Pearce & M. PapanastassiouIndividualism and Interdependence in the Technological Development of MNEs: the Strategic Positioning of R & D in Overseas Subsidiaries; M. Papanastassiou & R. PearceMultinationals and National Systems of Innovation: Strategy and Policy Issues; R. Pearce & M. PapanastassiouInternalisation and Individualism : MNE Laboratories' R & D Collaborations; R. Pearce & M. PapanastassiouFunding Sources and the Strategic Roles of Decentralised R & D in Multinationals; M. Pa…