Product- and Geographic Boundary Dynamics under Foreign Competition Pressure -- Vertical Boundary Dynamics under Foreign Competition Pressure -- Product-, Geographic-, and Vertical Boundary Dynamics, and their Inter-Relationships under Foreign Competition Pressure -- Conclusion and Implications for Research and Practice.

Large firms develop strategies in the context of increasingly intense international competition. However, the impact of foreign competition on firm boundaries has received surprisingly little research attention to date. Florian Gröne provides a systematic assessment of mounting import and FDI pressure’s influence on large US and German enterprises and explains how and why firms change their product scope, geographic footprint, and value chain configuration as a result.