Titlebook: Social Capital and its Impact on Born Transnational Firms; Martin Krikken Book 2014 Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2014 Born Transnational

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Martin KrikkenStudy in the field of economic sciences.Includes supplementary material:

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978-3-658-04614-9Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2014

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Conclusion,n transnational firm. At last, based on the findings of a conceptual analysis and qualitative empirical evidence, this master thesis concludes that social capital positively affects six underlying mechanisms regarding the development of corporate flexibility in the born transnational firm.

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2625-3577 increasing number of firms engaging in business activities across national borders from or near their inception. Employing the transnational organization model to cope with hypercompetitive markets, the so-called born transnational firms represent a rather new prototype of such rapidly internationa

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Introducing the Born Transnational Firm as a Distinct Type of International Start-Up,important to note that the very act of expanding across borders, especially through capital-intensive forms of foreign direct investment (FDI), multiplies organizational complexity (Bartlett and Ghoshal, 2002: 77). Facing different organizational demands in international environments, firms need to

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Corporate Flexibility and its Development in the Born Transnational Firm,f flexibility in the literature, it is further crucial to obtain a clear grasp on what this term encompasses in this context. In general, the use of the term flexibility is ubiquitous and one often intuitively has an idea what it refers to (Volberda, 1998: 82; Evans, 1991: 73). However, academic wor

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Social Capital and its Contribution to Corporate Flexibility,flexibility. And yet, it clearly symbolizes the fundamental idea behind the concept of social capital, i.e. social relationships influence one’s behavior (Coleman, 1988: 98; Bourdieu, 1986: 248). More specifically, social relationships are likely to facilitate certain actions and one might achieve r