• The double challenge of AFF 

      Rønning, Rune; Gooderham, Paul N.; Stensaker, Inger G. (Working paper, Working paper, 2009-05)
      This paper explores the present status and future options of a Norwegian management consultancy company, AFF, with respect to serving Norwegian multinational enterprises (MNEs). The case of AFF is also employed to illustrate ...
    • An exploration of two perspectives on global leadership and the potential consequences for global leadership development 

      Rønning, Rune; Espedal, Bjarne; Jordahl, Atle (Working paper, Working paper, 2010-02)
      The paper explores two logics of global leadership; the logic of instrumentality and the logic of appropriateness. These two logics and their relation to multinational enterprises are traced in organizational theory and ...
    • Leadership development programmes and the development of social capital in MNEs 

      Gooderham, Paul N.; Rønning, Rune (Working paper, Working paper, 2008-01)
      The setting of this paper is the internal training programme of a major Norwegian multinational enterprise (MNE). The programme is aiming at greater MNE-wide integration in order to promote knowledge sharing. It is shown ...
    • “The local taste champion” Rieber & Søn ASA 

      Gooderham, Paul N.; Rønning, Rune (Working paper, Working paper, 2008-06)
      Rieber & Søn is a Norwegian multinational food company that currently has fully-owned production units in seven European countries and sales and market offices in a further six countries. The purpose of this rich case study ...
    • Making the transition from a multi-domestic to a glocal strategy : The Initial Phase of Rieber & Søn’s Purchasing Transformation Project 

      Gooderham, Paul N.; Rønning, Rune (Working paper, Working paper, 2009-06)
      The immediate purpose of this paper is to assess the progress Rieber & Søn had made with the initial phase of a project aimed at significantly integrating its international purchasing operations. This purchasing project ...
    • Social capital and organizational practice 

      Rønning, Rune (Working paper, Working paper, 2008-11)
      There is need of a theory of social capital capable of informing practice in firms aiming to develop social capital. Nahapiet and Ghoshal’s (1998) paper on the relationship between social capital and intellectual capital ...