Network Knowledge in International Business

New Horizons in International Business series

Edited by Sarianna M. Lundan, Chair in International Management and Governance, University of Bremen, Germany

This book focuses on current cutting-edge research concerning the increasing strategic importance of subsidiary networks to the multinational firm. It combines contributions from three major related areas of inquiry: the changing theoretical conception of networks and the structure of the multinational firm, the importance of spillovers and agglomeration economies related to multinational investments, and the management of the flow of information and knowledge from headquarters to subsidiaries and vice versa.

‘. . . this is a volume that will be welcomed by advanced international business students and scholars. It provides greater international access to a significant body of research dealing with networks with MNEs and the links to knowledge management.’
– John Stanton, Global Business and Economics Review

“这学术卷帐目ins a range of original and well documented insights into the changing organisational characteristics of MNEs, and particularly, the increasingly important role of foreign affiliates as knowledge augmenting and disseminating entities. A great deal of new empirical evidence – both at a country and firm level – is assembled and analysed, and several new areas of research are identified. Altogether, the monograph is an essential read for all international business scholars.’
– John Dunning, University of Reading, UK and Rutgers University, US

‘The material in this book is required reading for a broad audience of scholars in international business, organization, management and international economics. It covers a wide range of related subjects from
inter-firm networks, alliances, multinational enterprise strategies to knowledge creation and technology transfer. Network Knowledge in International Business not only provides an extremely interesting overview
of many contributions to the current work on networks, knowledge and international business strategies, it also influences the long-term research agenda of major topics in the international business literature.’
– John Hagedoorn, Maastricht University and MERIT, Maastricht, The Netherlands