Explanatory Frameworks for Growth and Change in Multiregional Firms
评估了行为管理文献中的概念框架，用于解释大型寡头垄断和多区域企业的增长与变化，发现技术优势、国内饱和与产品生命周期等概念的作用，并强调研发活动的重要性。
In this paper a number of conceptual frameworks derived from the behavioral-managerial literature are examined and evaluated in terms of their utility in explaining growth and change in large oligopolistic, uninational and multinational firms. Notions related to the technical supremacy of these firms and their apparent desire to maintain this supremacy proved to be very important and useful. Ambiguities found with respect to the concept of domestic market saturation as an explanatory mechanism for the internationalization of firms led to a scrutiny of the product life cycle. If was concluded that the spatial dimensions of this seminal conceptual framework needed strengthening. An examination of explanatory concepts related to the processes of growth and output diversification processes underscored the important role of R&D activities of these high technology, multiregional firms. In this paper I shall discuss and evalu