Multinational Corporate Evolution and Subsidiary Development

This book is one of the first to specifically address the subsidiary development process - a phenomenon by which multinational company subsidiaries enhance their resources and capabilities. It shows how this process is integral to multinational corporate evolution, which is largely driven by changes in subsidiaries and their development. It also illustrates how the recent trend towards greater international dispersal of value-adding activities has impacted on this process and on multinational evolution as a whole.

ALLAN BIRD Californian Polytechnic State University, USA JULIAN BIRKINSHAW Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden SCHON BEECHLER Columbia University, USA SEA-JIN CHANG Korea University, Korea ED DELANY E. Delany & Associates, Ireland WILLIAM EGELHOFF Fordham, USA LUCIANO FRATOCHII University of Bologna, Italy MATS FORSGREN Copenhagen Business School, Denmark LIAM GORMAN Irish Management Institute, Ireland NEIL HOOD University of Strathclyde, UK ULF HOLM University of Uppsala, Sweden JIATAO LI McKinsey, Hong Kong STEPHEN MCCORMICK Irish Management Institute, Ireland MARINA PAPANASTASSIOU Economic University of Athens, Greece ROBERT PEARCE University of Reading, UK TORBEN PEDERSON Copenhagen Business School, Denmark PHILIP ROSENZWEIG IMD, Switzerland TROND RANDOY Agder College, Norway BERNARD SURLEMONT University of Liege, Belgium HELLMUT SCHUTTE INSEAD, France JAMES H. TAGGART University of Strathclyde, UK SULLY TAYLOR Portland State University, USA