Multinationals as flagship firms regional business networks
Alan Rugman and Joseph D'Cruz bridge the literature on networks and multinationals by introducing the concept of the flagship firm. This theory of the flagship firm/five partners model is then applied to the telecommunications, chemicals, automotive and electronics sectors.
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London
Oxford University Press
2000
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The flagship firm and the five partners business network
- 2. Corporate strategy and the flagship firm
- 3. Internalization and deinternalization: will business networks replace multinationals?
- 4. Partners across borders: organizational learning and the flagship firm
- 5. The theory of the flagship firm
- 6. The Canadian telecommunications network
- 7. The French telecommunications network
- 8. The Canadian speciality chemicals network
- 9. The Scottish electronics cluster
- 10. The North American automotive cluster
- 11. Managerial implications of flagship relationships.