Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
1993
Abstract
An empirical test of the Bartlett and Ghoshal (1989) organizational typology is presented. One hundred thirty-one senior executives of corporations with worldwide operations classified their operations, using the Bartlett and Ghoshal typology, as being one of the following: 1. a multinational corporation, 2. a global corporation, 3. an international corporation, or 4. a transnational corporation. The executives also evaluated their organizations' configuration of assets and capabilities, role of overseas operations, and development and diffusion of knowledge. Transnational corporations, those characterized as seeking to be globally competitive through multinational flexibility and worldwide learning capability, were least frequently reported by the respondents. The hypothesized practices associated with multinational and global organizations were more consistent with the typology's predictions relative to those of the international and transnational types.
Discipline
Business | Organizational Behavior and Theory
Research Areas
Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources
Publication
Journal of International Business Studies
Volume
24
Issue
3
First Page
449
Last Page
464
ISSN
0047-2506
Identifier
10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8490240
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Citation
Leong, Siew Meng and TAN, Chin Tiong.
Managing across Borders: An Empirical Assessment of the Bartett and Ghoshal (1989) Organizational Typology. (1993). Journal of International Business Studies. 24, (3), 449-464.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/277
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Publisher
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8490240