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Subsidiary‐specific advantages in multinational enterprises

Rugman, Alan M., Verbeke, Alain·2001·Strategic Management Journal
DOI 10.1002/smj.153
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Abstract This paper discusses the internal patterns of competence building in the multinational enterprise (MNE), with a focus on the creation of capabilities in its foreign subsidiaries. We present a new framework to synthesize 10 types of MNE–subsidiary linkages leading to capability development. We find that several of the 10 capability development processes are associated with subsidiary‐specific advantages. We discuss the process of subsidiary‐specific advantage development within the organizational structure of the MNE when it is a differentiated network of dispersed operations. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Firm-specific assets could arise anywhere in the MNE.

    “Rugman and Verbeke (1992, 2001, 2003) also recognized quite properly that firm-specific assets could arise anywhere in the MNE.”

    From A dynamic capabilities-based entrepreneurial theory of the multinational enterprise (2014) · cites this paper as Rugman and Verbeke, 2001

  • The principal limits on corporate globalization, when endogenous, generally stem from bounded rationality, bounded reliability, and failure to build an organizational setting that supports value creation; these worsen as geographic and product scope expands.

    “The main constraints on corporate globalization have been documented in a large and wide-ranging literature, and to the extent that these constraints are endogenous, they can usually be reduced to challenges of bounded rationality, bounded reliability, and the inability to create an organizational context conducive to value creation in its entirety, all of which become exacerbated as the firm”

    From The future of international business research on corporate globalization that never was… (2018) · cites this paper as Rugman & Verbeke, 2001

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Authors
Rugman, A. M., & Verbeke, A.
Affiliations
University of Oxford (GB)
Corresponding author
Rugman, Alan M.
ORCID
Verbeke, Alain
Venue
Strategic Management Journal
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2001-01-29
Volume
22
Issue
3
Pages
237-250
ISSN
  • 0143-2095 (ISSN-L)
  • 1097-0266
DOI
10.1002/smj.153
OpenAlex
W1991567271
Cited by
1,285
References
4
Citations by year
2026: 60 · 2025: 49 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 48 · 2022: 48 · 2021: 59 · 2020: 54 · 2019: 79 · 2018: 53 · 2017: 65 · 2016: 92 · 2015: 65 · 2014: 69 · 2013: 88 · 2012: 66
FWCI
57.44
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor)
Locations
Strategic Management Journal (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › International Business and FDI
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Social Sciences › Communication › International Student and Expatriate Challenges
Keywords
multinational corporations, foreign subsidiaries, capability development, competence development, network organizational structure

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