SUMMATIVE ASSIGNMENT

Answer all three parts:

• To what extent does Haier’s current business model concur with Dunning & Lundan’s (2008:587) view that “the contemporary network MNE is best considered as a co-ordinator of a global system of value-added activities”?
• In what ways has Haier’s process of re-inventing itself since 1984 been reflected in significant revisions of the two pre-eminent academic internationalization paradigms in the International Business literature (i.e. the OLI Paradigm and the Uppsala Model)?