Integrative Capacity as a Moving Force in Newly Formed Icelandic Multinational Enterprises
The rapid growth of multinational enterprises in Iceland at the beginning of the 21st century is one of the most intriguing events in the practice on international business. Past decades have been characterised by profound changes and an increased rate of globalisation. However, much of the globalis...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/097492921000200108 2024-04-28T08:26:15+00:00 Integrative Capacity as a Moving Force in Newly Formed Icelandic Multinational Enterprises Dís Óladóttir, Ásta 2010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/097492921000200108 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/097492921000200108 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Review of Market Integration volume 2, issue 1, page 135-172 ISSN 0974-9292 0975-4709 General Agricultural and Biological Sciences journal-article 2010 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/097492921000200108 2024-04-02T08:14:07Z The rapid growth of multinational enterprises in Iceland at the beginning of the 21st century is one of the most intriguing events in the practice on international business. Past decades have been characterised by profound changes and an increased rate of globalisation. However, much of the globalisation was initiated by large companies in major developed countries. As globalisation proceeds, smaller companies from small countries joined the process. As a result, there have been dramatic shifts in the way businesses are organised and how they compete. These rapid changes in the nature of global competition have caused international managers and international management researchers alike to search for new ways to frame problems and answer questions about how to manage complex multinational corporations (MNCs) most effectively. When a corporation establishes a subsidiary in a foreign country, through Greenfield or acquisition, its managers must decide how much control they need to maintain over the subsidiary; should the company operate separately or should it be integrated into the already existing system. A good balance is attained when the managers in the headquarters have global vision, core values and cultural principles which are shared by all subsidiary managers. The smaller the organisation at the headquarter, the more important is the integrative capacity of the initiators and the builders of the new multinational enterprise. Integrative capacity can be described in the following way: the strategic infrastructure of the corporation is seen as a multidimensional system which contains strategic resources or capability and organisational infrastructure, which might provide a foundation for global expansion and latent linkages within the MNC. When the firm boundaries are fuzzy, a conventional organisational structure is unable to satisfy the internal need for ecological evolution within its network. In a situation like this, a strategic infrastructure is necessary to the coordination and integration of ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland SAGE Publications Review of Market Integration 2 1 135 172 |
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The rapid growth of multinational enterprises in Iceland at the beginning of the 21st century is one of the most intriguing events in the practice on international business. Past decades have been characterised by profound changes and an increased rate of globalisation. However, much of the globalisation was initiated by large companies in major developed countries. As globalisation proceeds, smaller companies from small countries joined the process. As a result, there have been dramatic shifts in the way businesses are organised and how they compete. These rapid changes in the nature of global competition have caused international managers and international management researchers alike to search for new ways to frame problems and answer questions about how to manage complex multinational corporations (MNCs) most effectively. When a corporation establishes a subsidiary in a foreign country, through Greenfield or acquisition, its managers must decide how much control they need to maintain over the subsidiary; should the company operate separately or should it be integrated into the already existing system. A good balance is attained when the managers in the headquarters have global vision, core values and cultural principles which are shared by all subsidiary managers. The smaller the organisation at the headquarter, the more important is the integrative capacity of the initiators and the builders of the new multinational enterprise. Integrative capacity can be described in the following way: the strategic infrastructure of the corporation is seen as a multidimensional system which contains strategic resources or capability and organisational infrastructure, which might provide a foundation for global expansion and latent linkages within the MNC. When the firm boundaries are fuzzy, a conventional organisational structure is unable to satisfy the internal need for ecological evolution within its network. In a situation like this, a strategic infrastructure is necessary to the coordination and integration of ... |
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Integrative Capacity as a Moving Force in Newly Formed Icelandic Multinational Enterprises |
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