SUMMATIVE ASSIGNMENT

Answer all three parts:

1. To what extent does Haier’s current business model concur with Dunning & Lundan’s (2008:587) view that “the contemporary network MNE is best considered as a co-ordinator of a global system of value-added activities”?
2. In what ways has Haier’s process of re-inventing itself since 1984 been reflected in significant revisions of the two pre-eminent academic internationalization paradigms in the International Business literature (i.e. the OLI Paradigm and the Uppsala Model)?
3. Critically consider what other Multinational Business Enterprises (MBEs) might learn from the likes of Haier and Nespresso about developing the “relational” capabilities and skills, e.g. trust and commitment, that Vahlne & Johanson (2013:205) conclude they require “to build, develop, and co-ordinate value-creating multinational business network structures involving both internal and external actors.”

Each part carries equal weight.

Overall word limit: 2500 words

References:

Dunning, J. & Lundan, S. (2008), Institutions and the OLI Paradigm of the MNE, Asia Pacific J. of Management, 25, pp573-593

Vahlne, E. & Johanson, J. (2013), The Uppsala Model on Evolution of the MBE: from Internalization to Coordination of Networks, International Marketing Review, 30 (3), pp189-210 

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