Strategy and structure in multinational corporations: A revision of the stopford and wells model
重新检验了Stopford和Wells关于跨国公司战略与结构的经典模型，利用34家美欧大型跨国公司的数据，发现部分关系成立而部分不成立，并引入国外制造相对规模这一新战略要素，提出修正模型。
Abstract The Stopford and Wells study of strategy and structure in multinational corporations produced a now familiar model relating certain types of structure to certain elements of a firm's international strategy. This paper re‐examines the important relationships expressed by the model, using data from a recent study of 34 large U.S. and European multinationals. While some of the relationships are supported, others are not. A new element of strategy, the relative size of foreign manufacturing, is introduced, and found to be an important predictor of structure. Based on the findings, a revised model for relating strategy and structure in MNCs is proposed.