Non-Business Actors in a Business Network : A Comparative Case on Firms' Actions in Developing and Developed Countries

by Hadjikhani; Thilenius

• ISBN13: 9780080446158
• ISBN10: 0080446159
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-20
• Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology

Summary

In their foreign markets, MNCs interact not only with customers and suppliers but also with governments and bureaucrats. The book is an outcome of several years of research on MNCs market activities in developing and industrialized countries. Different from the earlier studies this book addresses how interactions not only with business partners, but also with the vast variety of governmental and legislative organizations, affect local firms and MNCs businesses. Based on the business network theory, the book develops a new model for the exchange relationship between local customers and MNCs and investigates the effect of different political organizations and other business firms. It examines relationship using several dimensions, business, social and political, through multiple cases from a developing country (DC) and industrialized countries. The comparison provides deepened knowledge on strength and longevity of business relationship in these two different business worlds. The outcomes reveal new insights with the claim for general appliance for DCs. The book supports the management of MNCs in their understanding of local firms behavior in such markets and to retain appropriate measure in their globalization efforts. The book also enables governments in DCs to realize consequences of their political actions for both local firms and MNCs and thereby industrialization of the country.

Author Biography

Peter Thilenius is associate professor at the School of Business, Malardalens University and at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Part 1: Theoretical and Empirical Fields
Business Firms' Interaction with the Environment	3	(18)
Business Networks and Non-Business Actors' Embeddedness	21	(18)
Part 2: Decomposition of the Facts
The Focal Relationship	39	(26)
Adaptation	65	(24)
Social Interaction	89	(26)
Embeddedness	115	(38)
Part 3: Synopsis
Relationship and Embeddedness	153	(24)
Results	177	(16)
Concluding Remarks	193	(24)
References	217