Converting global presence into global competitive advantage

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An article informing companies how to overcome the challenges of expanding their markets globally. It advises companies to use a detailed process to prevent wasting resources, while still maintaining its domestic competitive advantage.

World, Multinational Corporations

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Resource sharing among SBUs: strategic antecedents and administrative implications

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The practice of sharing resources with related strategic business units (SBUs), although popular among American corporations, does not always yield improved performance. Resource sharing is most effective when the corporate strategy is focused on reducing operating costs, rather than differentiating company products. Resource sharing tends to have a negative impact on managerial job satisfaction, because it lessens executive autonomy. A contingency approach to determining management incentives is more effective than a structured, pre-established approach.

Operations research, Management science, Economic aspects, Finance, Business planning, Organizational effectiveness, Corporations, Corporate finance, Industrial organization, Corporate growth, Resource allocation, Reserves (Accounting)

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Knowledge flows and the structures of control within multinational corporations

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Virtually all research on strategic control within multinational corporations (MNCs) has focused on macro differences in control systems and processes across entire MNCs. Taking a less macro (i.e., subsidiary-specific contingency perspective), this article examines how, within the same corporation, the nature of corporate control might also vary systematically across subsidiaries. Differences in subsidiary contexts are analyzed along two dimensions: (a) the extent to which the subsidiary is a user of knowledge from the rest of the corporation and (b) the extent to which the subsidiary is a provider of such knowledge to the rest of the corporation. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Subsidiary corporations, Subsidiaries, Control systems, Control (Psychology)

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