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Revisiting the multinational enterprise in global production networks

Fuller, Crispian, Phelps, Nicholas A·2018·Journal of Economic Geography
DOI 10.1093/jeg/lbx024
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This article presents further opportunities to develop the Global Production Network (GPN) approach by reopening the ‘black box’ of the multinational enterprise (MNE) through a structuration perspective. It emphasises three aspects to a renewed focus on the agency of MNEs, namely: the importance of the variety of relationships within MNEs between parent and subsidiaries; the importance of dynamic capabilities in underpinning corporate change; and, the micropolitics of MNEs and subsidiaries which impact on firm-institutional change within regional economies. The agency exercised by MNEs in these ways influences the ‘selection’ of investment locations, ‘coupling’ processes, and the depth and pace of host territorial institutional change. In conclusion, this article argues that future research needs to place greater emphasis on the contribution of dynamics internal to the MNE to understand evolution in regional economies and GPNs.

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  • While host country institutional environments were factored into many investigations, few studies examined feedback effects from GVC governance on host, home, and international institutions.

    “While host country institutional environments were factored into many investigations, few studies (e.g., Fuller & Phelps, 2018) examined feedback effects from GVC governance on host, home, and international institutions.”

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Authors
Fuller, C., & Phelps, N. A.
Affiliations
  • Cardiff University (GB)
  • University College London (GB)
Corresponding author
Fuller, Crispian
ORCID
Venue
Journal of Economic Geography
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
2017-08-01
Volume
18
Issue
1
Pages
139-161
ISSN
  • 1468-2702 (ISSN-L)
  • 1468-2710
DOI
10.1093/jeg/lbx024
OpenAlex
W2735594083
Cited by
65
References
95
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 8
FWCI
11.95
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Journal of Economic Geography (publishedVersion)
  • ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) (acceptedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
  • ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › International Business and FDI
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management Information Systems › Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management
Keywords
multinational corporations, global production networks, structuration theory, parent-subsidiary relationships, dynamic capabilities, micropolitics, institutional change, investment location selection, regional economy

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