In our paper we challenge the common notion that small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have to adapt to the international business environment to be successful when acting in an international context. Although we believe in a need for certain adaption, we claim that the possibility that SME...

What role do regional headquarters (RHQ) play in the process of spreading knowledge in the internal and external network of transnational companies (TNC)?In our paper we approach this topic based on an understanding of TNC as ‘small world' networks – a concept from the field of social...

In our paper we analyze possible effects caused by a use of regional headquarters in transna-tional companies (henceforth: TNCs). We understand regional headquarters as an innovative structural coordination instrument being used to solve the problem of coordinating transnational business...

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...

Cross‐border activities of firms are said to be risky and complicated due to so‐called ‘liabilities of foreignness' (LOF) (Zaheer & Mosakowski 1997; Zaheer 1995). These LOF are difficulties firms in general have to face when acting in environments they are not familiar with. The existence of...