With intensified global competition, institutional changes and reduced communication costs the propensity of firms to reconfigure their global value chain and separate their activities across national boundaries has increased markedly. It enables firms to combine the benefits arising from...

In this chapter, I highlight Marjorie Lyles’s contribution to the field of international management. Rather than attempting to present a comprehensive overview of her scientific career, I focus on three areas of her scholarship that I believe have influenced the direction of research in the...