Our proposed integrative framework illustrates the influences
and interrelations of the factors in a MNEs external and internal
environment that may help shape its GTM system. Although the
GTM research is in the early stages of development, and is a
relatively new multi-disciplinary field of enquiry that draws on a
range of academic and applied perspectives, our framework
identifies critical environmental contingencies, discusses the
linkages between MNEs external and internal environment and
the GTM system serves as a basis for future theory building,
teaching, and practice.