Networking in multinational enterprises: the importance of strategic alliances
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| adam_text | Contents
Illustrations xi
Tables xiii
Series Editor s Preface xv
Preface xvii
Chapter 1
The General Setting 1
General Management Needs for the 1990s 2
Information Creation, Diffusion and Control 7
What is Networking? 11
What are Strategic Alliances? 16
The Problem of Conceptualizing the Realities of Networks 19X
Research Evidence on the Spreading of Networks: Trends in
Cooperation 22
Networks of Leading Multinational Enterprises 28X
Outline of This Book 38
Chapter 2
The Search for a Paradigm 41
Examples of Multinational Enterprises 43
The Nature of Multinational Enterprise 45 )
Capital Arbitrage Approach 59
Evidence on the Capital Arbitrage Approach 60
Specific Advantages and Multinational Enterprise 61
Evidence on the Specific Advantage Hypothesis 62
The Product Cycle Hypothesis 62
Evidence on the Product Cycle Hypothesis 71
The Technology Gap Model 73
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Evidence on the Technology Gap Hypothesis 75
Internalization Theory 76 X
Evidence on the Internalization Hypothesis 80
The Transaction Cost View 82
Evidence on the Transaction Cost Hypothesis 83
The Competitive Advantage View 87 ^
Evidence on the Competitive Advantage View 94
The Eclectic Approach 96
Evidence on the Eclectic Approach 97
Summary 99
Chapter 3
Economic Rationale of Networks 101
Traditional Microeconomic Analysis of Networks 105
Four Basic Network Strategies 111 A
The Optimization Problem of Strategic Alliances 112
Tucker s Partners and Rivals Model 114
New Production Concepts and Changing Industry Structure 124
When Is Network Arrangement Economically Efficient? 132
Summary 133
Chapter 4
Successful Management of Innovative Networks 138
Fundamental Aspects of Networks 139
Identifying Prospective Partners 139
The Role of Task and Organizational Complexity 141^X
Forming the Partnership: A Two Stage Process 146
Monitoring the Network Process 150
Types of Cooperative Arrangements 151
Summary 161
Contents ix
Chapter 5
Networking in Developing Countries 163
Foreign Direct Investment Flows to Selected Developing
Countries 166
Ensuring Economic Viability through Export Oriented
Manufacturing Subsidiaries 170
Networking for Development 173
Summary 180
Chapter 6
Networking and Public Policy 182
Levels of Interstate Cooperation 186
First Lessons from Global Financial Market Integration 187
American Public Policy and Networking 188
The Myth of Japan Incorporated 193
Summary 197
Suggestions for Further Research 199
References 201
Index of Names 229
Index of Companies 234
Illustrations
Figure 1.1
Factors Promoting the Extension of Division of Labor and
International Specialization of Production 8
Figure 1.2
Interpenetration of Market and Organization 12
Figure 1.3
The Assets in Play 17
Figure 1.4
The Hierarchy of Alliances 18
Figure 1.5
International Partnership (or Strategic Alliance) 20
Figure 1.6
The Networking Problem 21
Figure 1.7
The Standard Solution 22
Figure 1.8
The Entrepreneurial Solution 23
Figure 1.9
High Tech Branches and Strategic Alliances (in Europe) 29
Figure 1.10
The Heart of the Mitsubishi Group 32
Figure 1.11
Organizational Units and Some of the Interlinkages within
N.V. Philips 35
Figure 1.12
The Network of Cooperation in Information Technology 36
Figure 1.13
The Network of Cooperation in Biotechnology 39
Figure 2.1
Product Life Cycle 66
Figure 2.2
Distorted Life Cycle 68
Figure 2.3
Extended Life Cycle 69
Figure 2.4
The Product Life Cycle and Research and Development Costs 73
Figure 2.5
Illustrative Know how Transactions 84
xii Illustrations
Figure 2.6
Some Elements of Organizational Design 85
Figure 2.7
Competitive Advantages in the Production Process 90
Figure 2.8
Porter s Framework for Industry and Competitive Analysis 91
Figure 2.9
The Value Chain and the Value System 95
Figure 2.10
The Eclectic Theory of International Production 98
Figure 3.1
The Network Contract Curve 109
Figure 3.2
The Disparity Principle 120
Figure 3.3
Setup Times and Economic Order Quantity 130
Figure 4.1
Fundamental Aspects of Networks 140
Figure 4.2
Alliance Complexity 143
Figure 4.3
Task Complexity: Alliance Scope, Environmental Uncertainty,
and Partner Skills 144
Figure 4.4
Organizational Complexity 145
Figure 4.5
Forming the Partnership: A Two Stage Process 148
Figure 6.1
Corporate Influence in the U.S. Policy Making Process 191
Figure 6.2
Japanese Government Industry Relations of Dependence and
Interdependence 195
Figure 6.3
Horizontal and Vertical Communication in Japanese Industry 196
Tables
Table 1.1
Topics Most Relevant to Practicing General Managers in the
Next Ten Years 4
Table 1.2
Networks of Foreign Manufacturing Subsidiaries, 315
Multinational Companies, 1950 and 1970s 24
Table 1.3
Distribution of Internrm Agreements by Function 27
Table 2.1
Countries with the Biggest Companies According to Fortune
International 500 44 K
Table 2.2
World s 50 Biggest Corporations According to Fortune
International 500 46
Table 2.3
Biggest Companies by Industry According to Fortune
International 500 52 /^
Table 2.4
The Stateless World of Manufacturing 54
Table 2.5
Competitive Advantages of Multinational Enterprises 89~V
Table 3.1
Tucker s Four Modes of Collaboration 122
Table 4.1
Global Strategic Alliances 153
Table 4.2
International Activities of Largest Accounting Firms, 1986 155
Table 5.1
Foreign Direct Investment Flows to Selected Developing
Countries 168
Table 5.2
U.S. Flows of Direct Foreign Investment to Developing
Countries by Sector, 1970 72 and 1979 81 170
Table 5.3
Share of LDCs in World Exports 171
Table 5.4
Exports as a Share of Domestic Output: Japan and East Asian
NIC s, 1985 172
xiv Tables
Table 5.5
Growth Rates of Income and Exports, Developing Countries 173
Table 5.6
Industry in Selected Countries 176
Table 5.7
Evolving Structure of Industrial Activity: Percent of
Manufactured Value Added 178
Table 6.1
Levels of Economic Cooperation among States 187
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