organizational integrate None of the di mensions of country, product, or function is assumed to be uniformly superordinate in the process of formulating and implementing strategy. Moreover, quite different from the rather clear, abiding, and holistically defined responsibilities of the global platforms and international implementers in center-oriented models of the MNC, the tasks of subsidiaries in network models are said to be more flexible and more interrelated to the tasks of other units. In general, flexible nonbureaucratic and nonhierarchical structures and approaches are expected to foster rapid information and knowledge diffusion and, hence, are expected