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    International management, political arena and dispersed entrepreneurship in the MNC

    Williams, C. and Lee, Soo Hee (2009) International management, political arena and dispersed entrepreneurship in the MNC. Journal of World Business 44 (3), pp. 287-299. ISSN 1090-9516.

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    Abstract

    This paper presents a model of MNC dispersed entrepreneurship based on the concept of political arena. The model extends previous conceptualizations of MNC dispersed entrepreneurship by explaining how remote employees become stimulated to act as entrepreneurs through resolution of internal political arena within the international management context. We identify variables within this context at corporate, subsidiary, and individual levels as antecedents to political arena in the MNC. These are the corporate immune system, inappropriate control, subsidiary requirements differences and cognitive barriers to knowledge sharing. Different types of internal entrepreneurs (Austrian-like and Schumpeterian-like) emerge as a consequence of the different ways in which political arena is resolved. We discuss theoretical and managerial implications of the resultant multi-level model.

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    Item Type: Article
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Dispersed entrepreneurship, multinational corporations, political arena
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 27 Jan 2011 16:46
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 16:51
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/2058

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