Managing international networks : presentation of a research project

• This is a presentation of a research project which focuses on influence in divisions ofSwedish international firms. Our aim is to study how some intraorganizationalrelations, i.e. relations between divisional managements usually situated in Sweden andsubsidiaries mainly located in Europe, can be influenced by interorganizational factors.The networks in which the subsidiaries are engaged are investigated, in order to seehow the characteristics of the networks influence the conditions for the subsidiaries tomanage their own development and influence the strategy of the whole division. Weassume that the long-term strategic behavior of the divisions and the subsidiaries can berelated to the business networks in which they are embedded.A model, which in earlier versions has been presented at the EIBA-conference inMadrid 1990, at the Strategic Processes Research Conference in Oslo 1991 and at theIMP-conference in Uppsala 1991, is developed. This model is the base for an empiricalstudy which was started during spring 1991 and will be finished at the end of 1992.The project is partly financed by the FA-Institute - Institute for Research on Businessand Work Life Issues. Project leaders are professors Jan Johanson and Mats Forsgren atthe Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, and assistants are UlfAndersson, Ulf Holm, Cecilia Pahlberg and Peter Thilenius.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Företagsekonomi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Economics and Business -- Business Administration (hsv//eng)

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Business studies

Företagsekonomi

Business studies

Företagsekonomi

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