Our conceptual paper sheds light on the role of regional headquarters in coordinating the information and knowledge transfer within the transnational company (TNC) understood as globally dispersed network. We presume that organizational units are embedded in an internal network which is mainly...

In our chapter, we show how internationalisation-based performance outcomes can be amended by using a Regional Headquarters (RHQ) structure. We assume that ‘transnational corporations’ (TNCs) act restrained by a so-called GLOCAL dilemma caused by a coeval need for realising standardisation...

Transnational corporations (TNCs) recently face a dilemma: they coevally have to exploit global‐based as well as locally enrooted business opportunities (‘glocal dilemma’). This brings the aspect of formal and informal coordination to an issue. In our conceptual paper we focus on formal...