A Modern Typology of MNEs
2007/// Filed in: MNEs
Given the limitations of each of the structures in terms of global competitiveness, most MNEs have re-evaluated their corporate and competitive strategies and re--structured in order to simultaneously become more globally integrated and locally responsive. As MNEs attempt to optimize their global integration/local responsiveness trade--off (i.e. adopting a more "glocal" strategy) there is a certain degree of convergence, and the old traditional organizational forms are too "pure" in nature to accurate model most modern MNEs. The inability of the traditional (pure) models of multidomestic and global models to accurately describe modern MNEs has led to the new models of modern multidomestic, modern global, and transnational. These models can be briefly summarized as follows: