Developing a MNC-Network Perspective

Abstract

Last chapters’ review of the existing network literature was targeted at identifying possible analogies which, in turn, would enhance the capability to conceptualize the MNC from a network perspective. This intention arose from the previous, largely inappropriate, metaphorical application of the network term. Chapter 7.1 will now seek to elicit these analogies in more detail. The basic MNC-network perspective which will be delineated throughout Chapter 7.1 builds the foundation for the development of the ‘MNC-Network Framework’ in Chapter 7.2. Ultimately, the assumptions and premises on what will be considered a MNC-network throughout the remaining discussion root in the forthcoming positioning of the MNC between the streams of social and interorganizational network research.