Social Networks of Foreign Subsidiary Managers as Industrial Coordination
The purpose of this paper is: (1) to review the assumptions of the interaction and industrial network approaches on industrial coordination, (2) to examine the role of subsidiary managers in industrial inter-firm relationships, and (3) to synthesize previous conceptualisations of the multinational as both an intra- and inter-organizational network, particularly within the “process school of diversified multinationals. As a corollary of these tasks and of a study of eleven industrial Portuguese subsidiaries of Finnish multinationals, the paper suggests theoretical propositions on social networks of foreign subsidiary managers as a mechanism of coordination in industrial markets. In the final section, some managerial implications are outlined.
Peng Ching Huai
Department of Marketing & Logistic, China University of Technology, Taiwan China
国际会议
2009国际通信电路与系统学术会议(ICCCAS 2009)(2009 International Conference on Communications，Circuits and Systems)
成都
英文
595-598
2009-07-23（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）