Christoph Dörrenbächer (Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany), Mike Geppert (Friedrich Schiller University Jena,
The study of multinational companies (MNCs) has been split for many decades into two camps which hardly 'talked' to each other: a) predominantly economic and functionalist oriented International Business Researchers, and b) largely social constructivist and critical management oriented Organization Theorists. This volume intends to build bridges by bringing together leading international scholars from both camps, who provide new insights in the study of MNCs. In addition to the bridge-building exercise, the book aims to develop a more comprehensive organizational theoretical understanding as...
The study of multinational companies (MNCs) has been split for many decades into two camps which hardly 'talked' to each other: a) predominantly econo...
Florian Becker-Ritterspach (HTW Berlin, Germany), Christoph Dörrenbächer (Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany),
The Promises and Properties of Rapidly Growing Companies contributes to contemporary thought on so-called gazelles – high performing market players that create many jobs and promise strong welfare effects. Moving away from the well-established idea of firm growth as a continuous process, the contributions of this edited volume add to the growing body of innovative gazelle related research in three ways: Firstly, systematically taking stock of the international gazelle growth literature and proposing a theoretical growth model, which supports the rare and temporal nature of gazelle growth....
The Promises and Properties of Rapidly Growing Companies contributes to contemporary thought on so-called gazelles – high performing market players ...