The situation in which a multinational firm compensates for comparative weakness in home-country R&D by locating vital R&D activities in foreign countries with a stronger R&D base has generally been considered a fairly marginal phenomenon. Yet home base-compensating R&D by MNCs is more prevalent...

Summary This paper argues that design innovation constitutes an important means for multinational corporations (MNCs) to manage the standardization-adaptation dilemma in product development for international markets. Through design innovation MNCs can accommodate the heterogeneity of different...

Unternehmen werden in der Öffentlichkeit immer öfter mit ethischen Fragestellungen konfrontiert, die zu Konflikten zwischen ethischen und wirtschaftlichen Werten führen können. Vor allem in international tätigen Unternehmen treten häufig intra- und interorganisatorische Konfliktsituationen...

Although accountability standards (e.g., the Global Reporting Initiative and SA 8000) have made their way onto the agendas of managers and researchers, a model to compare and analyze these tools in a systematic way is a conspicuous omission. This article aims to develop such a model. First, we...

I explore the limits of corporate responsibility standards - for example Social Accountability 8000 (SA 8000), the Global Reporting Initiative, the Fair Labor Association workplace code - by looking at these initiatives through Derrida's aporias of justice as set out in 'Force of Law: The...