Transnational Corporations and Transnational Governance [electronic resource] : The Cost of Crossing borders in the Global Economy /
Lundan, S.editor.
Transnational Corporations and Transnational Governance examines the different kinds of distance-related barriers related to cross-border investment. Different forms of governance, whether inside the firm or as part of its network of external relationships, have the aim of reducing uncertainty and creating a more predictable environment.
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COVER; Transnational Corporations and Transnational Governance; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1: The Costs of Crossing Borders in the Global Economy ; Introduction; International, transnational and multinational organizations; From the costs of access to the costs of acceptance; Variety and institutional co-evolution; Contents of the volume; Conclusions; Note; References; Part I: Behavioural Assumptions in the Theory of the TNC; 2: A Transaction Cost Theory of the TNC; Introduction; The transaction cost theory of the TNC
The bundling model of competition in host country marketsConclusions; Notes; References; 3: Bounded Reality: A New Behavioral Foundation for MNE Governance; Introduction; Opportunism and TCE; Transaction cost based reasoning in international business theory; Infusion of Williamsonian behavioral assumptions in IB; Alain Verbeke's perspective on opportunism; Marc Casson's perspective on opportunism; Anoop Madhok's (2006) perspective on opportunism; The unsolved Verbeke-Casson-Madhok puzzle; Case study analysis; Results and discussion; Opportunistic bounds on reliability
Benevolent preference reversal - ReprioritizationBenevolent preference reversal - Scaling back on overcommitment; Implications of BRel; Assessing BRel; BRel and MNE research; Conclusion; Appendix 3A Cases analyzed for the nine global MNEs; Notes; References; 4: The 'Parenting Advantage' and Innovation Processes in the Multinational Firm: Does Top Management Mess Things Up?; Introduction; The parenting advantage; An empirical test of the parenting advantage; A pessimistic or an optimistic view on HQ's entrepreneurial role?; The sheer ignorance issue; The bounded reliability issue
The relationship between HQ power and HQ behaviorConclusion; Notes; References; Part II: The Footprint of the TNC: The Role of Borders and Distance; 5: Distance-Related Barriers and the Internationalization of Finnish MNEs; Introduction; Cultural and institutional barriers to cross-border investment; Sources of data and descriptive statistics; Analysis and results; Replication of Rugman and Verbeke (2004); The entropy measure of internationalization; Regional entropy; Distance measures; Discussion and conclusions; Appendix 5A  Examples of entropy calculations
Appendix 5B Construction of the distance measuresNotes; References; 6: Looking into the Innovation Process: How International Is Innovation in Multinational Companies? ; Introduction; Internationalisation of innovation at the organisational level; Forms of internationalisation - How international is innovation?; The empirical perspective - A process-oriented analysis; Empirical analysis; Internationalisation in the empirical cases: Conclusions; Conclusions; Notes; References; 7: Locations of Corporate Headquarters in Europe: Between Inertia and Co-evolution; Introduction
The location of MNCs: Theoretical approaches and hypotheses
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Transnational Corporations and Transnational Governance examines the different kinds of distance-related barriers related to cross-border investment. Different forms of governance, whether inside the firm or as part of its network of external relationships, have the aim of reducing uncertainty and creating a more predictable environment.
Management.
International business enterprises.
Organization.
Planning.
Economics.
Management science.
Corporate governance.
International economics.
Management.
International Business.
Organization.
Economics, general.
Corporate Governance.
International Economics.