This chapter deals with firms’ relationships in particular with political actors when expanding in emerging markets. Our main purpose is to illustrate the importance of including such relationships when describing how firms develop insidership in networks in these markets. Emerging markets are...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss how network relationships, with business as well as with non-business actors, affect each other and have an impact on strategy processes in subsidiaries in Latin America. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative approach is used in which a...

Purpose: Building on a business network perspective, the paper addresses the following question: Why do firms move between cooperation and competition in the context of high-tech industry? Hence, the purpose of this study is to contribute to the understanding of the complex...

A subsidiary in a multinational corporation (MNC) has assets in the form of specific relationships. It is argued that the subsidiary's network is of vital importance for the development of new products, production processes and for technological information in the subsidiary. The resources...