The emergence and impact of MNC centres of excellence
Subtitle: a subsidiary perspective
By: edited by Ulf Holm and Torben Pedersen.
Contributors: Holm, Ulf.; Pedersen, Torben.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Subsidiary corporations; International business enterprises
Notes: A collection of 14 papers from an international research project.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The centres of excellence project - methods and some empirical findings / Ulf Holm and Torben Pedersen; title: Development of MNC centres of excellence / Mats Forsgren, Jan Johanson and Deo Sharma; title: Subsidiary influence and corporate learning - centres of excellence in Danish foreign-owned firms / Mats Forsgren and Torben Pedersen; title: The impact from business networks on MNC competence development - a case-study / Cecilia Pahlberg; title: Industrial clusters and foreign companies' centres of excellence in Norway / Gabriel R.G. Benito; title: Multinational research subsidiaries in Denmark / Lee Davis; title: R&D centres of excellence in Canada / Prescott C. Ensign, Julian M. Birkinshaw and Tony S. Frost; title: The competence of formally appointed centres of excellence in the UK / Karl Moore; title: Competence creation and recognition - a case-study / Mats Forsgren, Claus Mathisen and Torben Pedersen; title: Mergers and acquisitions as establishment modes for centres of excellence - the case of Italian subsidiaries / Luciano Fratocchi and Gianni Lorenzoni; title: Characteristics of R&D centres of excellence in MNCs / Patrick Furu; title: The impact of centres of excellence on MNC performance / Ulf Holm and Deo Sharma; title: The dilemma of developing a centre of excellence - a case-study of ABBGeneration / Maria Andersson and Christine Holmström.