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  • 1995-1999  (7)
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    Determinants of increasing R&D complexity in affiliates of manufacturing multinational corporations in the UK (1998)
    Oxford, UK and Boston, USA : Blackwell Publishers Ltd
    R & D management 28 (1998), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1467-9310
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: The aim of this paper is to evaluate the technological trajectories of the UK subsidiaries of manufacturing multinational corporations as measured by changes in their R&D complexity over a five year period. The data was gathered from a postal survey of 500 randomly selected subsidiaries in the UK; of the respondents that had been established in Britain for at least five years, 16 were found to demonstrate decreasing and 48 increasing complexity of R&D activities. These 64 firms were compared across a number of strategic variables, and a powerful logistic regression model developed that predicts technological trajectories with great precision.The key variables in the model were differences (over five years) in sales volume, decision making autonomy about human resource matters in the subsidiary, sensitivity to the needs of sister subsidiaries when developing new products, heterogeneity of the subsidiary's markets, and the degree of localization of certain control functions. The central lesson for the subsidiary R&D manager is that HQ undertakings about R&D strategy as it concerns the subsidiary may be fairly accurately evaluated via the model and its five strategic variables.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9310.00086
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  • 2
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    International Competitiveness and the Single Currency (1999)
    Oxford, UK and Boston, USA : Blackwell Publishers Ltd
    Business strategy review 10 (1999), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1467-8616
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: This article puts together the results of a five-year comparative study of UK and Irish manufacturing exporters and discusses its implications for currency unions and particularly the Euro. Overall, the results indicate a positive linkage between exchange-rate stability and individual firms’ competitiveness. Irish exporters have benefited from their government’s approach to European Monetary Union (EMU) and will continue to do so. The research identifies changes in firm-level competitive activity that occur where the exchange rate is fixed, and argues that exchange-rate stability leads to sustained long-run competitive advantage for firms located within the currency area (over those that are not). European currency while existing Euro-zone countries will be assessing whether they have benefited from it. At the same time, countries elsewhere in the world may need to consider abandoning their independent currencies in favour of the dollar, the Euro, or the Yen.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8616.00099
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  • 3
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    Configuration and Coordination at Subsidiary Level: Foreign Manufacturing Affiliates in the UK (1998)
    Oxford, UK and Boston, USA : Blackwell Publishers Ltd
    British journal of management 9 (1998), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1467-8551
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: This paper develops Porter's (1986) well-known configuration/coordination paradigm for strategy at corporate level into a model that may be applied to identify and evaluate strategy at subsidiary level. Four strategy types are identified: detached subsidiary (corresponding to Porter's export-based corporate strategy), autarchic subsidiary (corresponding to the country-centred corporate strategy), confederate strategy (corresponding to high foreign investment with extensive coordination), and the strategic auxiliary (purest global strategy). Empirical data were obtained from a postal survey of 500 randomly chosen foreign manufacturing affiliates in the UK, of which 171 responded. The proposed strategy types were identified using cluster analysis and verified using analysis of variance. The four subsidiary strategy types were found to be separated by a number of operational variables including market scope, flows of material inputs and outputs, the nature of manufacturing technology employed and the degree of R&D complexity. The proposed framework was thus found to be useful and robust.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.00102
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  • 4
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    Company–specific Factors and International Competitiveness (1997)
    Oxford, UK and Boston, USA : Blackwell Publishers Ltd
    Business strategy review 8 (1997), S. 0 
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    ISSN: 1467-8616
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: This article arises from concern about the inadequacy of the theoretical and empirical evidence on the costs and benefits to business of the EU single currency. It uses a survey of companies in the UK (which has not had a stable currency regime) and Ireland (committed to the ERM) together with the “process” dimension of the Buckley et al (1988) 3-P model of the international competitiveness of the firm to highlight implications for exporters of long-term government commitment to exchange-rate stability. The results indicate a positive link between currency stability and three measures of “process” competitiveness: commitment to international business, economies of scale and economies of scope.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8616.00037
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  • 5
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    The process of subsidiary strategy: a study of Ciba-Geigy Classical Pigments (1998)
    Bingley : Emerald
    Management decision 36 (1998), S. 568-579 
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    ISSN: 0025-1747
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: This paper analyses the strategy of Ciba-Geigy's industrial division at three hierarchical levels, concentrating on subsidiary strategy in the Classical Pigments business. The analysis makes use of a number of models: the BCG matrix, White and Poynter's model of subsidiary strategy, Porter's configuration-co-ordination paradigm, and Prahalad and Doz's integration-responsiveness framework. The strengths and weaknesses of each are evaluated within this particular industrial environment. The main conclusion of the paper is that use of these four alternative analytical perspectives yields a more holistic view of strategy in the Classical Pigments business.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00251749810239450
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  • 6
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    ACAS advice - a lost cause? (1999)
    Bradford : Emerald
    Employee relations 21 (1999), S. 128-144 
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    ISSN: 0142-5455
    Source: Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
    Topics: Economics
    Notes: Previous research has highlighted the trend that ACAS advice has long been held in high esteem by both employers and employees alike. A study of small to medium sized manufacturing establishments in Renfrewshire, Scotland, suggests that employers prefer partial advice as opposed to impartial advice. Instead they may turn to alternative bodies other than ACAS which have the ability to offer employee relations "support", which is beyond the remit of ACAS. In light of limited resources due to funding constraints, the implications for the provision of ACAS advice are examined in relation to alternative bodies offering employee relations help.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000004553
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    Strategy and control in the multinational corporation: Too many recipes? (1998)
    Elsevier
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    Publication Date: 1998-08-01
    Print ISSN: 0024-6301
    Electronic ISSN: 1873-1872
    Topics: Economics
    Published by Elsevier
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