Wpływ zakorzenienia przedsiębiorstwa na przewagę konkurencyjną – perspektywa korporacji transnarodowej

• Authors: Gołębiowski Tomasz

Title variants

EN

Influence of firm’s embeddedness on competitive advantage – a transnational corporation perspective

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The paper is aimed at the analysis of the concept of firm’s embeddedness and its influence on firm’s competitive advantage in the context of resource-based view of a firm, business networks theory, and international business theories. Embeddedness is characterized by the number of functional areas of the firm involved with external partners and the number of these partners, intensity and sustainability of linkages, and interdependence of relationships’ actors. The right level of embedding is crucial for augmenting and exploitation of the knowledge available to the firm. Therefore, embeddedness has been recognized as a significant determinant of firm’s sustainable competitive advantage in international markets. The paper discusses the specific issues related to relationship management, incl. those connected with the level and nature of embeddedness in transnational corporations (TNC). Analysis covers both the internal embeddedness, i.e. in linkages within the internal TNC network, and the external embeddedness, i.e. in relationships of headquarters or foreign subsidiaries with independent actors in a host country.

Keywords

EN

inter-organizational relationships; transnational corporations; firm’s embeddedness; competitive advantage

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański
• Journal: International Business and Global Economy
• Year: 2014
• Volume: Volume 33
• Pages: 495–505

Dates

online

2015-01-05

Contributors

author

Gołębiowski Tomasz

Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/23539496IB.13.036.2421