ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book addressed economic knowledge, which the academic debate defines as commodity, resource and capital. Scientific-technical knowledge is an essential type of economically relevant knowledge and considered a key asset for the knowledge-based society. Using the social construction of reality' Berger and Luckmann as a conceptual framework not only help to go beyond scientific-technical knowledge, but opens up a perspective beyond knowledge' itself. They guide the globalisation of scientific-technical and R&D-related knowledge as well as production-related knowledge. International workers' representatives share particular visions, adjust them in response to managements' shared visions, and hence influence corporate decision-making. Regarding international subsidiaries as dynamic links between headquarters and regional actor networks and institutional settings seems to be a promising approach to better understand multinational companies and their strategies of knowledge relocation.
