Key Publications of COLIS members

Becker-Ritterspach, F., Saka-Helmhout, A. and J. J. Hotho (2010). “Practice transfer in MNEs as the socially-embedded translation of practices”, Critical Perspectives on International Business, 6 (1): 8-37.

Costanzo, L.A. and R.B. MacKay (2008), The Handbook of Research on Strategy and Foresight, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Costanzo, L.A. and V. Tzoumpa (2008), “Enhancing organisational learning in teams: has the middle-manager got a role?”, Team Performance Management, (June issue). 

Costanzo, L.A. and J. K. Ashton (2006), “Product innovation and consumer choice in the UK financial services industry”, Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, 14 (3): 285-303. (The paper won the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2007).

Costanzo, L.A. (2005), “Strategic innovation in financial services” in Strategy in Transition (edited by Richard A. Bettis), chapter 7, pp. 175-204, Strategic Management Society Book Series, Oxford: Blackwell.

Costanzo, L.A. (2004), “Strategic foresight in a high-speed environment”, Futures, 36 (Special Issue): 219-235.

Costanzo, L.A., K. Keasey and H. Short (2003), “A Strategic Approach to the Study of Innovation in the Financial Services Industry”, Journal of Marketing Management, 19 (3/4): 259-281.

Dörrenbächer, C. and M. Geppert (2006), "Micro-politics and conflicts in multinational corporations: current debates, re-framing, and contributions of this special issue", Journal of International Management, 12 (3): 251-265.

Duanmu, J. and F. Fai (2007), “A processual analysis of knowledge transfer: from foreign MNEs to Chinese suppliers”, International Business Review, 16 (4): 449-473.

Duanmu, J. and R. Pittman (2007), “Review of Contagious Capitalism Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China”, Journal of International Management, 13 (4): 539-542.

Duanmu, J. (2006), “Country of origin effects on knowledge transfers from MNEs to their Chinese suppliers: an explorative investigation” in Managerial Issues in International Business, (edited by E. Morgan F. and Fai), Chippenham and Eastbourne: Palgrave MacMillan.

Dörrenbächer, C. and Geppert, M. (2010), "Subsidiary staffing and initiative-taking in multinational corporations: A socio-political perspective", Personnel Review, forthcoming.

Dörrenbächer, C. and Geppert, M. (2009), "Micropolitics in multinational corporations: Outline of a new research field", Management Revue, 20 (4): 373-391.

Geppert, M. and K. Williams (2006), “Global, national and local practices in multinational corporations: towards a socio-political framework”, International Journal of Human Resource Management, 17 (1): 1-21.

Geppert, M. and M. Mayer (2006), Global, National and Local Practices in Multinational Companies, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Geppert, M. and D. Matten (2006), "Institutional influences on manufacturing organization in multinational corporations: the 'cherrypicking’ approach", Organization Studies, 27 (4): 491-515.

Geppert, M., D. Matten, D. and P. Walgenbach (2006), "Transnational institution building and the multinational corporation: an emerging field of research", Human Relations, 59 (11): 1451-1465.

Geppert, M., K. Williams and D. Matten (2003), “The social construction of contextual rationalities in MNCs: An Anglo-German comparison of subsidiary choice”, Journal of Management Studies, 40, (3): 617-641.

Geppert, M., D. Matten and K. Williams (2003), “Change management in multinational companies: how global convergence intertwines with national diversities”, Human Relations, 56 (7): 807-838. (The paper won the Carolyn Dexter Award at the annual conference of the AOM in 2002.)

Harzing, A.-W. K.; Baldueza, Joyce; Barner-Rasmussen, Wilhelm; Barzantny, Cordula; Canabal, Anne; Davila, Anabella; Espejo, Alvaro; Ferreira, Rita; Giroud, Axele; Koester, Kathrin; Liang, Yung-Kuei; Mockaitis, Audra; Morley, Michael J.; Myloni, Barbara; Odusanya, Joseph O.T.; O'Sullivan, Sharon Leiba; Palaniappan, Ananda Kumar; Prochno, Paulo; Choudhury, Srabani Roy; and A. Saka-Helmhout (2009). "Ranking versus rating: What is the best way to reduce response and language bias in cross-national research?", International Business Review, 18 (4): 417-432..

Saka-Helmhout, A. (2010). “Organizational learning as situated routine-based activity in international settings”, Journal of World Business, 45 (1), in press.

Saka-Helmhout, A. (2009). “Agency-based view of learning within the multinational corporation”, Management Learning, 40 (3): 259-274.

Saka-Helmhout, A. (2007), “Unravelling learning within multinational corporations”, British Journal of Management, 18 (3): 294-310.

Saka-Helmhout, A. (2004), “The cross-national diffusion of work systems: The translation of Japanese operations in the UK”, Organization Studies, 25 (2): 217-236.

Saka-Helmhout, A. (2003), Cross-National Appropriation of Work Systems: Japanese Firms in the UK, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Wezel, F. C. and A. Saka-Helmhout (2006), “Antecedents and consequences of organizational change: ‘Institutionalizing’ the behavioral theory of the firm”, Organization Studies, 27 (2): 265-286.

Wortmann, M. (2010). “Einzelhandel - eine äußerst begrenyte Europäisierung" [Retailing - a very limited Europeanization”, Wirtschaftsdienst, pp. 65-70.

Williams, K. and M. Geppert (2006), “Employment relations as a resource in the socio-political construction of transnational social spaces by MNCs: Evidence from German and British subsidiaries”, in Global, National and Local Practices in MNCs, (edited by M. Geppert and M. Mayer), chapter two, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Williams, K. and M. Geppert (2006), "The German model of employee relations on trial: negotiated and unilaterally imposed change in multi-national companies", Industrial Relations Journal, 37 (1): 48-63.

Zander, L., Mockaitis, A. I, Harzing, A.-W. and 21 collaborators including Saka-Helmhout, A. (2010). "Standardization and contextualization: A study of language and leadership across 17 countries", Journal of World Business, forthcoming. [Nominated for the Carolyn Dexter and finalist for the AoM IM Division Best Paper Awards].