...Mohamed Amal; Gabriel Baffour Awuah; Henrique Raboch; Svante Andersson Purpose This paper aims, by a direct comparison, to address the differences and similarities of the internationalization processes of multinational companies both from developed and emerging countries. Design/methodology...

... their nations' high institutional environment to create different types of institution‐based ownership advantages such as branded or technologically‐advanced products (Dunning, 2009). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Multinational companies Emerging markets Location Emerging market...

... to their learning, such that closeness is a handicap! Psychic distance Environment Increased resource commitment MNEs Born‐globals Multinational companies International business In Johanson and Vahlne's (2009) revised IP model they suggest that uncertainty has more to do with “outsidership...

...” configuration. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 International business Multinational companies Strategic change Deinternationalization Coevolution Organizational processes This study sets out to explore deinternationalisation (defined here as the process whereby the MNC...

... the time and context parameters. Stephen Graham Saunders can be contacted at: stephen.saunders@buseco.monash.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Zimbabwe Multinational companies Business ethics Ethics Performance evaluation Nestlé There is no way in which those who...

...Colin Turner Purpose The aim of this paper is to identify the major coercive forces driving the enforced reconfiguration of the multinational company. This is explored through the conceptual development of coercive deinternationalisation via the literature on legitimacy. Through a multi‐case study...

... Multinational companies Subsidiaries Brazil According to the strategic notion that a typical multinational corporation is a differentiated network of subsidiaries (Bartlett and Ghoshal, 1998 ; Nohria and Ghoshal, 1997), the competences of a multinational company can be developed both in the parent...

...). Adrian J. Wilkinson can be contacted at: adrian.wilkinson@griffith.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Multinational companies Human resource management Taiwan United Kingdom Socio‐economic regions Over recent years, there has been a growing body of research...

... in order to attract FDI flows to their countries by examining the experience of other countries. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Globalization International investments International business Multinational companies The commonly accepted goal of a multinational enterprise (MNE...

... factors, seems most difficult. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 International investments Multinational companies Electronic commerce International economics Globalisation is formed and fashioned in and through particular political economies and techno‐economic relations...

... parent country nationals. Host country governments will therefore be less inclined to alienate MNCs through aggressive regulation. Moreover, MNCs will have local support in their defence. International investments Multinational companies Globalization Multinational corporations (MNCs...