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Research paper thumbnail of Tapping into India’s innovation potential: consequences for a Western multinational enterprise and the case of SKF

Innovation Spaces in Asia, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Overcoming the Liability of Outsidership—The Challenge of HQ of the Global Firm

Journal of International Management, 2012

We conceptualize the global firm as being a loosely coupled network of far-flung subsidiaries wit... more We conceptualize the global firm as being a loosely coupled network of far-flung subsidiaries with hierarchically acting headquarters (HQ) that design a global organization to ensure support of its global strategic agenda. We argue that the process of HQ management in the global firm is a process characterized by uncertainty. Drawing on the Uppsala model for managing under uncertainty, we suggest that the source of uncertainty is a liability of outsidership derived from the fact that HQ is often not knowledgeable about the networks and actions of its subsidiaries. We then offer various actions that need to be taken by HQs to resolve that liability to improve on the efficiency of the coordination and management of the global firm.

Research paper thumbnail of Internationalization as an entrepreneurial process

Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Tapping into India’s innovation potential: consequences for a Western multinational enterprise and the case of SKF

Innovation Spaces in Asia, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Overcoming the Liability of Outsidership—The Challenge of HQ of the Global Firm

Journal of International Management, 2012

We conceptualize the global firm as being a loosely coupled network of far-flung subsidiaries wit... more We conceptualize the global firm as being a loosely coupled network of far-flung subsidiaries with hierarchically acting headquarters (HQ) that design a global organization to ensure support of its global strategic agenda. We argue that the process of HQ management in the global firm is a process characterized by uncertainty. Drawing on the Uppsala model for managing under uncertainty, we suggest that the source of uncertainty is a liability of outsidership derived from the fact that HQ is often not knowledgeable about the networks and actions of its subsidiaries. We then offer various actions that need to be taken by HQs to resolve that liability to improve on the efficiency of the coordination and management of the global firm.

Research paper thumbnail of Internationalization as an entrepreneurial process

Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 2010

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