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From M-form to N-form: The Structure of Multinational Corporations

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Alarik, Björn (Department of Business Administration, School of Economics and Commercial Law, Göteborg University)
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The purpose of this study is to map, illuminate and explain the recent development of the strategies, structure and control of multinational corporations. The aim is to identify crucial problems in managing and organizing multinational corporations and describe what sort of approaches are used and proposed to solve these problems.

This is a literature study where an inventory and critical examination of the recent research on the strategies, structure and control of multinational corporations. The emphasis in the study is on research carried out in the last ten years. It starts out with a summary of the early research on multinational corporations, proceeds to an analysis of the process school, and ends up with a discussion about organizing international operations from a network perspective.

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Paper provided by Göteborg University, Department of Business Administration in its series FE rapport with number 2000-378.

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Date of creation: 11 Dec 2000
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Postal: Dept of Business Adminstration, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University, Box 610, SE 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden
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Keywords: MNC multinational structure international strategy transnational subsidiary global

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M10 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting - - Business Administration - - - General
M19 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting - - Business Administration - - - Other

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  1. Jon I Martinez & J Carlos Jarillo, 1989. "The Evolution of Research on Coordination Mechanisms in Multinational Corporations," Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave Macmillan Journals, vol. 20(3), pages 489-514, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Hakanson, Lars & Nobel, Robert, 1993. "Foreign research and development in Swedish multinationals," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 22(5-6), pages 373-396, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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