The growing anisotropy of the multinational corporation in the “new normal”: Challenges for organizational architectureстатья
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Аннотация:Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new research construct to depict moreaccurately organisational structure and the direction of organisational changes in large multinationalcorporations (MNCs).Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents an overview of the existing literature on thephenomenon of anisotropy in natural sciences and the organisation of large corporations, and transforms anidentified phenomenon into a research construct of organisational theory.Findings – This paper demonstrates that anisotropy, that is, the differences in the speed and conductivity ofthe movement of capital (money), products (goods and services), ideas (knowledge) and talent (people) indifferent directions within the corporation ( from the centre to the subsidiaries, from the subsidiaries to thecorporate centre and between subsidiaries) is the normal state of the internal space of the MNC. Anisotropy isincreasing with the on-going restructuring of the global economic order. This leads to the divergence ofbusiness units in MNCs into the core and the periphery.Research limitations/implications – The paper outlines a series of promising research avenues inorganisational studies.Originality/value – The paper provides a novel treatment of the composition of MNCs.