Introduction to Part I : Booz & Co./strategy+ business eminent scholar in international management 2013 / Timothy M. Devinney -- The organizational architecture of the multinational corporation / D. Eleanor Westney -- Professor D. Eleanor Westney and Japanese business studies / Kazuhiro Asakawa -- Introduction to Part II : Orchestration of the global network organization / Torben Pedersen ... [et al.] -- The diffusion of lean operations practices in MNCs : a knowledge-based, plant level, cross-firm study / Arnaldo Camuffo, Raffaele Secchi, Chiara Paolino -- The virtue of in-between pragmatism : a balancing act between responsiveness and integration in a multinational company / Gabriel R.G. Benito, Randi Lunnan, Sverre Tomassen -- Functional-level transformation in multi-domestic MNCs : transforming local purchasing into globally integrated purchasing / Frank Elter, Paul N. Gooderham, Svein Ulset -- Network orchestration : Vodafone's journey to globalization / Ayse Saka-Helmhout, Christopher J. Ibbott -- Re-thinking a MNC : the role of cognitive interventions in organizational design / Elizabeth Maitland, André Sammartino -- "The most public secret" : concealing and silencing ethnocentrism in the MNC / Marianne Storgaard, Janne Tienari, Rebecca Piekkari -- The omnipotent MNC : a review and discussion / Håkan Pihl, Alexander Paulsson -- Complementarity versus substitution among political strategies / Stefan Heidenreich, Jonas F. Puck, Igor Filatotche -- The dark side of multi-unit franchising : the drawbacks of local responsiveness / Andrey Kretinin, Todd Morgan, Sergey Anokhin -- Organizing export strategies / Gabriella Lojacono, Markus Venzin -- MNC headquarters as global network orchestrators : insights from headquarters relocation patterns in Europe / Alfredo Valentino, Phillip C. Nell, Jasper J. Hotho -- Strategic archetypes of emerging market multinationals : analysis of outward FDI of Indian Firms / Amit Karna, Rajesh Upadhyayula, Vikas Kumar -- Organizing MNC internal networks to manage global customers: strategies of political compromising / Elina Pernu, Tuija Mainela, Vesa Puhakka -- To orchestrate MNC intra-firm relationships, one needs to understand them / Snejina Michailova, Smita Paul -- Organizational reconfiguration and strategic response : the case of offshoring / Marcus M. Larsen, Torben Pedersen -- Experiential learning and innovation in offshore outsourcing transitions / Christopher Williams, Maya Kumar -- Multinational firms and the management of global networks : insights from global value chain studies / Valentina De Marchi, Eleonora Di Maria, Stefano Ponte -- Disintegration and de-internationalization : changing vertical and international scope and the case of the oil and gas industry / Colin Dale, Thomas Osegowitsch, Simon Collinson.

The organizational design of the Multinational Corporation (MNC) was a vibrant area of research in the field of International Business and Management during 1970-1990s. However, since then this research has largely faded from our scholarship. The world and environmental forces' have changed substantially in the last decades placing new constraints on MNCs. External shocks have increased and MNCs need to learn how to live with this increased market volatility. Integrating value chains makes MNCs more efficient but also vulnerable. The relentless forces of competition and globalization are forcing MNCs to divide their activities and reach for foreign inputs, markets and partners. By dividing their value chain into discrete pieces' some to be performed in-house, while others are outsourced to partner organizations' MNCs hope to reduce overall costs and risks, while also reaping the benefits of ideas from contractors or alliance partners worldwide. These challenges call for new research on the organizational design of the MNC. It is our intention with this AIM volume to motivate new research on the proper organizational design mechanisms of MNCs as of today.

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