Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Challenge and response: North American firms in East Asia -- Persistent adaptability as survival strategy for MNCs in emerging markets: The case of Nortel Networks in China -- Establishing a successful joint venture: Moore Business Forms in Japan -- Employee...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical perspective on whether the boundary-spanner model and consequently complex disaggregated intra-MNE value chain activities are crisis resilient. Design/methodology/approach The paper is a conceptual theory development based on literature...

Purpose – Recent research on intra‐organizational knowledge‐transfer showed that new capability development within multinational corporations shifts from parent companies to foreign subsidiaries. This paper seeks to identify antecedents and barriers for reverse capability‐transfer in...