During a UN Commission meeting in 1983, Norwegian Prime Minister Brundtland came to state one of the most comprehensive definitions of sustainability: ‘meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’ ( WCED Report, 1987 )....

Research on FDI mostly take the perspective of the headquarters of the multinational companies (Frost, Birkinshaw & Ensign, 2002), while this research will study from the perspective of their subsidiaries. Specifically, the purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of strategic...

After a steady growth in global offshoring activities, it appears now a marked flow in the opposite direction with both a partial and full reversal of offshoring decisions. Research on reshoring put less stresses on the operation of dispersed facilities of an intra-firm network manufacturing....

Technological advancements are forcing firms to innovate quickly to sustain a competitive advantage. However, despite theoretical arguments and empirical findings, the mechanisms that influence the speed of innovation and firms' international performance are surprisingly unexplored in the...