Even though multinational companies have played a role in international trade for more than 300 years, the issue of globalisation of companies has become very important during the past few decades. Currently more and more manufacturing companies establish their operations in foreign countries, especially in Asia. Globalisation of manufacturing is a current topic in Finland also, because it is predicted that in 2004 already 75% of manufacturing activities of Finnish companies will be located outside of Finland. There are two research questions to be answered in this thesis: (1) what economic and managerial issues affect manufacturing companies formulating a global operations strategy? and (2) what factors in the business environment are ...
This work provides new insights to the strategic roles of manufacturing and manufacturing related ch...
Limited markets, global economy, growth and development — these are some examples why companies inte...
Globalization has caused changes in the offshore industry. One of the consequences is that producti...
The aim of this diploma thesis was to study global product development and multi-site engineering. ...
This study examines the international competitiveness and internationalisation of Finnish design com...
The global influence of multinational enterprises from developing economies is growing rapidly. Esp...
The competition within modern markets has increased the importance of the brand. Multinational corpo...
Service operations have earlier been constrained to local delivery. Due to improvements in technolo...
Valmistavalla teollisuudella on merkittävä rooli Suomen bruttokansantuotteesta. Viimeisen vuosikymme...
Communication and technology have influenced the world even more so in the last decade, making it ap...
The location choice of MNC headquarters has been recognized in previous research primarily from the ...
There is no previous research on how new product supply chain is formed as a result of new product d...
Regional headquarters can be defined as an intermediate organisational unit that is hierarchically s...
When a company is founded an important decision faced by its owners and managers is to discern betwe...
Manufacturing companies have actively been looking for new manufacturing locations throughout the la...
This work provides new insights to the strategic roles of manufacturing and manufacturing related ch...
Limited markets, global economy, growth and development — these are some examples why companies inte...
Globalization has caused changes in the offshore industry. One of the consequences is that producti...
The aim of this diploma thesis was to study global product development and multi-site engineering. ...
This study examines the international competitiveness and internationalisation of Finnish design com...
The global influence of multinational enterprises from developing economies is growing rapidly. Esp...
The competition within modern markets has increased the importance of the brand. Multinational corpo...
Service operations have earlier been constrained to local delivery. Due to improvements in technolo...
Valmistavalla teollisuudella on merkittävä rooli Suomen bruttokansantuotteesta. Viimeisen vuosikymme...
Communication and technology have influenced the world even more so in the last decade, making it ap...
The location choice of MNC headquarters has been recognized in previous research primarily from the ...
There is no previous research on how new product supply chain is formed as a result of new product d...
Regional headquarters can be defined as an intermediate organisational unit that is hierarchically s...
When a company is founded an important decision faced by its owners and managers is to discern betwe...
Manufacturing companies have actively been looking for new manufacturing locations throughout the la...
This work provides new insights to the strategic roles of manufacturing and manufacturing related ch...
Limited markets, global economy, growth and development — these are some examples why companies inte...
Globalization has caused changes in the offshore industry. One of the consequences is that producti...