An Evolutionary Approach to Understanding Adjustment of MNCs in A Complex Environment

• Authors: Dziubińska Agnieszka

Title variants

PL

Ewolucyjne podejście do rozumienia dostosowywania się przedsiębiorstw międzynarodowych do złożonego otoczenia

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Artykuł prezentuje wyniki badań dotyczących dostosowywania się przedsiębiorstw międzynarodowych do złożonego otoczenia. Model badawczy został osadzony na gruncie teorii ewolucyjnej, natomiast rynki wyłaniające się zostały wybrane jako kontekst badań. W rezultacie zostały scharakteryzowane trzy typy dostosowywania się do złożonego otoczenia. Przedstawiono implikacje co do możliwości rozwoju działań w odniesieniu do procesów uczenia się organizacji jako siły sprawczej dostosowywania się do otoczenia rynków zagranicznych.

EN

The article presents the results of the research concerning adjustment of multinational enterprises (MNCs) to a complex environment. The research model was grounded in the evolutionary theory, and emerging markets were chosen as the contexts of studies. As a result, three types of adjustment to a complex environment were characterized. Implications for the development of activities were formulated in relation to processes of learning of an organization as main driving forces of adjustment to the environment of a foreign market.

Keywords

EN

co-evolution; emerging markets; MNC

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych
• Journal: Problemy Zarządzania
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 1/2015 (51), t.2
• Pages: 183-199

Dates

published

2015-02-02

Contributors

author

Dziubińska Agnieszka

• University of Economics in Katowice

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Identifiers

ISSN

1644-9584

DOI

10.7172/1644-9584.51.12