Emerging capabilities in manufacturing companies: taxonomy of multinationals transformation
by Omar Salgado; Yongjiang Shi; Jerry Banks
International Journal of Business and Globalisation (IJBG), Vol. 9, No. 3, 2012

Abstract: This article presents an 80-year historical study of the evolution of a multinational company's manufacturing network. The study is based on business transactions and semi-structured interviews with managers. Company milestones and evolutionary stages emerged from the analysis and two evolutionary characteristics were identified; capability exploration and capability exploitation denoting how the company increased its corporate knowledge and deployed it corporate wide. The output includes a new taxonomy of company transformation that describes how subsidiaries of modern multinationals influence corporate growth.

Online publication date: Wed, 20-Aug-2014

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