High technology research laboratories are under constant pressure from the governments that support them to generate secondary utilities such as technology transfer and spin-offs. As buyers, such organisations are often used by governments to stimulate innovation by their suppliers, under tight budgetary constraints and within the rigid institutional frameworks applied to public research organisations. This book addresses the design of efficient buyer-supplier contracts within the institutional boundaries faced by the buyer and focuses in particular on vertical buyer-supplier linkages as a...
High technology research laboratories are under constant pressure from the governments that support them to generate secondary utilities such as techn...
This research volume includes a synthesis of recent advances in the theory of the multinational enterprise, with a focus on internalization and international diversification issues. It proposes important extensions of multinational enterprise theory, especially as regards the importance of geography to multinational strategy, and the linkages between internalization and international diversification. The book also introduces the study of various new topics in international business research, namely regional (as opposed to global) strategy analysis, global alliances that lead to alliance...
This research volume includes a synthesis of recent advances in the theory of the multinational enterprise, with a focus on internalization and intern...
Julien Van Den Broeck, Alain Verbeke, Alan M. Rugman
Part of a series which presents research on global strategic management, this volume focuses on the corporate response to global change. Topics discussed include strategic management and institutional dynamics, and methodological perspectives on the dynamics of national competitive advantage.
Part of a series which presents research on global strategic management, this volume focuses on the corporate response to global change. Topics discus...
This work presents a comprehensive overview of the many impacts of telework/telecommuting adoption, from both a managerial and societal perspective. It argues that telework will be increasingly adopted in the 21st century, representing a far-reaching move toward the virtual workplace, with dramatic implications for the management of the workforce and for society at large. permits the significant reduction of the spatial and temporal constraints faced by the conventional organization of the workplace. The new virtual workplace constitutes a key step in the evolution towards a virtual society....
This work presents a comprehensive overview of the many impacts of telework/telecommuting adoption, from both a managerial and societal perspective. I...
