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Article: Effects of nationality on global strategy.
- Article from:
- Management International Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 1997
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Does corporate nationality affect the use of global strategy? Since most definitions of global strategy (e.g., Porter 1986, Bartlett/Ghoshal 1989) involve integration of policies, operations, and personnel across nations, the nationality of the company concerned should a priori have some effect. But nationality is a multidimensional phenomenon (including citizenship, history, culture and experience) and can apply to different aspects of an MNC (including the past and current location of corporate headquarters, the nationality of managers, and the national location of units and subsidiaries). The formulation of global strategy lies primarily in the domain of business or ...