• Are governance mode and foreign location choices independent? 

      Leiblein, Michael J.; Larsen, Marcus Møller; Pedersen, Torben (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This article explores the relationship between organizational governance and location choices. While the existing literature provides significant intuition regarding the factors that influence these choices, it often assumes ...
    • Between a rock and a hard place: The consequences of complex headquarters configurations for subsidiary R&D activities 

      Gillmore, Edward; Andersson, Ulf; Dellestrand, Henrik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Challenges related to the complexity of overlapping multiple partner headquarters configurations, the resulting power and political tensions between headquarters, and the consequent effects of multiple interventions in ...
    • Choosing misaligned governance modes when offshoring business functions: A prospect theory perspective 

      Elia, Stefano; Larsen, Marcus Møller; Piscitello, Lucia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Transaction cost economics (TCE) holds that multinational corporations (MNCs) should select governance modes based on associated transactional hazards. However, MNCs often adopt theoretically misaligned governance modes. ...
    • The enduring effects of relational attributes on subsidiary evolution after mandate loss 

      Gillmore, Edward; Andersson, Ulf; Ekman, Peter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      We explore the importance of the relational attributes, trust and commitment, and their association with subsidiary development after mandate loss. We examine how greenfield and acquired subsidiaries, through their interaction ...
    • The future of global strategy 

      Benito, Gabriel R.G.; Cuervo-Cazurra, Alvaro; Mudambi, Ram; Pedersen, Torben; Tallman, Steve (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Global strategy, that is, theanalysis of strategy in an international context, has co-evolved with the dramatic changes in the global econ-omy in the 21st century. Research advances haveenabled a more sophisticated ...
    • In the right place at the right time! The influence of knowledge governance tools on knowledge transfer and utilization in MNEs 

      Andersson, Ulf; Buckley, Peter J.; Dellestrand, Henrik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      This article examines the utilization of knowledge transferred between sending and receiving subsidiaries within multinational enterprises. A model was developed and tested on 169 specific knowledge transfer projects. The ...
    • Into the unknown: The extent and boldness of firms' international footprint 

      Békes, Gabor; Benito, Gabriel R G; Castellani, Davide; Muraközy, Balazs (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Research Summary Firms make footprints as they internationalize. Going beyond simple measures of firms' internationalization, we conceptualize and measure the extent of a firm's international footprint as the number of ...
    • Subsidiary capability and charter change: Making Birkinshaw and Hood's framework actionable 

      Dzikowska, Marlena; Gammelgaard, Jens; Andersson, Ulf (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      We provide a more granular and comprehensive approach to subsidiary evolution and enhance the understanding of the complexity of the subsidiary's evolution in the era of value chain fine-slicing. We extend Birkinshaw and ...
    • The benefits of internationalization for state-owned enterprises 

      Benito, Gabriel R. G.; Rygh, Asmund; Lunnan, Randi (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Plain language summary: We investigate whether listed state-owned enterprises (SOEs) benefit more from internationalization than listed private enterprises. We argue that SOEs have a greater scope for benefitting from ...
    • When are global decisions strategic? 

      Leiblein, Michael J.; Reuer, Jeffrey J.; Larsen, Marcus Møller; Pedersen, Torben (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      A robust academic field must set and revisit boundary conditions that define where, when, and to whom its insights apply. This is particularly true for a field such as global strategy where the ubiquity of the key terms ...
    • Where do MNEs locate their headquarters? At home! 

      Meyer, Klaus E.; Benito, Gabriel R. G. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      We discuss the concept of corporate headquarters and outline a simple model of where MNEs locate their corporate headquarters. In line with substantial empirical evidence, this model emphasizes the inertial forces that tie ...