Alan Rugman is Thames Water Fellow in Strategic Management, Templeton College, University of Oxford. Previous positions have included Professor of International Business, University of Toronto (19871998); Professor of International Business, Delhousie University (19801987); and Visiting Professor at Brandeis University, UCLA, Western Washington University, and Columbia Business School.Joseph R. D'Cruz is Professor of Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He also consults widely with multinational corporations in the areas of global strategy and international operations. (Major clients include ICI, Exxon Corporation, Price Waterhouse, and DSM.) He was awarded the Touche Ross Award for the best article in Business Quarterly entitled The Globalization of Manufacturing (with Professor Fleck).Professors Rugman and D'Cruz are co-editors of the Kodak series of studies on Canada's international competitiveness.

raises the important question how asymmetric decision power in global flagship networks affects regional development

• Introduction ; PART I: THE CONCEPT OF THE FLAGSHIP FIRM ; Chapter 1: The Flagship Firm and the Five Partners Business Network ; Chapter 2: Corporate Strategy and the Flagship Firm ; Chapter 3: Internalization and De-internalization: Will Business Networks Replace Multinationals? ; PART II: MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE THEORY AND THE FLAGSHIP FIRM ; Chapter 4: Partners Across Borders: Organizational Learning and the Flagship Firm ; Chapter 5: The Theory of the Flagship Firm ; Chapter 6: The Canadian Telecommunications Industry Network ; Chapter 7: The French Telecommunications Network ; T III: CASE STUDIES OF FLAGSHIP BUSINESS NETWORKS ; Chapter 8: The Canadian Speciality Chemicals Network ; Chapter 9: The Five Partners/Flagship Model and the Scottish Electronics Cluster ; Chapter 10: The North American Automotive Cluster ; Chapter 11: Managerial Implications of Flagship Relationships

Alan Rugman is Thames Water Fellow in Strategic Management, Templeton College, University of Oxford. Previous positions have included Professor of International Business, University of Toronto (19871998); Professor of International Business, Delhousie University (19801987); and Visiting Professor at Brandeis University, UCLA, Western Washington University, and Columbia Business School.Joseph R. D'Cruz is Professor of Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He also consults widely with multinational corporations in the areas of global strategy and international operations. (Major clients include ICI, Exxon Corporation, Price Waterhouse, and DSM.) He was awarded the Touche Ross Award for the best article in Business Quarterly entitled The Globalization of Manufacturing (with Professor Fleck).Professors Rugman and D'Cruz are co-editors of the Kodak series of studies on Canada's international competitiveness.

raises the important question how asymmetric decision power in global flagship networks affects regional development

• Introduction ; PART I: THE CONCEPT OF THE FLAGSHIP FIRM ; Chapter 1: The Flagship Firm and the Five Partners Business Network ; Chapter 2: Corporate Strategy and the Flagship Firm ; Chapter 3: Internalization and De-internalization: Will Business Networks Replace Multinationals? ; PART II: MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE THEORY AND THE FLAGSHIP FIRM ; Chapter 4: Partners Across Borders: Organizational Learning and the Flagship Firm ; Chapter 5: The Theory of the Flagship Firm ; Chapter 6: The Canadian Telecommunications Industry Network ; Chapter 7: The French Telecommunications Network ; T III: CASE STUDIES OF FLAGSHIP BUSINESS NETWORKS ; Chapter 8: The Canadian Speciality Chemicals Network ; Chapter 9: The Five Partners/Flagship Model and the Scottish Electronics Cluster ; Chapter 10: The North American Automotive Cluster ; Chapter 11: Managerial Implications of Flagship Relationships

Alan Rugman is Thames Water Fellow in Strategic Management, Templeton College, University of Oxford. Previous positions have included Professor of International Business, University of Toronto (19871998); Professor of International Business, Delhousie University (19801987); and Visiting Professor at Brandeis University, UCLA, Western Washington University, and Columbia Business School.Joseph R. D'Cruz is Professor of Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He also consults widely with multinational corporations in the areas of global strategy and international operations. (Major clients include ICI, Exxon Corporation, Price Waterhouse, and DSM.) He was awarded the Touche Ross Award for the best article in Business Quarterly entitled The Globalization of Manufacturing (with Professor Fleck).Professors Rugman and D'Cruz are co-editors of the Kodak series of studies on Canada's international competitiveness.

raises the important question how asymmetric decision power in global flagship networks affects regional development

• Introduction ; PART I: THE CONCEPT OF THE FLAGSHIP FIRM ; Chapter 1: The Flagship Firm and the Five Partners Business Network ; Chapter 2: Corporate Strategy and the Flagship Firm ; Chapter 3: Internalization and De-internalization: Will Business Networks Replace Multinationals? ; PART II: MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE THEORY AND THE FLAGSHIP FIRM ; Chapter 4: Partners Across Borders: Organizational Learning and the Flagship Firm ; Chapter 5: The Theory of the Flagship Firm ; Chapter 6: The Canadian Telecommunications Industry Network ; Chapter 7: The French Telecommunications Network ; T III: CASE STUDIES OF FLAGSHIP BUSINESS NETWORKS ; Chapter 8: The Canadian Speciality Chemicals Network ; Chapter 9: The Five Partners/Flagship Model and the Scottish Electronics Cluster ; Chapter 10: The North American Automotive Cluster ; Chapter 11: Managerial Implications of Flagship Relationships