... with countries with a weak institutional climate and when investing in less attractive markets where developed country banks are less likely to go. Shawn Arita can be contacted at: aritas@hawaii.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Multinational companies South-South FDI Emerging...

... Location choice Subsidiary autonomy Multinational companies Increasing globalization and economic reforms in emerging economies during the decades of 1980s and 1990s have resulted in a rapid rise of emerging economies and emerging economy firms. The rise of emerging economies can be gauged...

... the strategic path firms from emerging economies can take to internationalize and compete at global level. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Internationalization Emerging market multinationals Strategic path Market dominance Capabilities‐then‐size India Multinational companies Emerging...

..., and the location effect on FDI linkages has not been examined. This study aims to fill the gap by using Chinese survey data. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 FDI China Local sourcing Multinational companies Sourcing Multinational enterprises (MNEs) may choose to use locally produced...

... Information technology Cross‐border acquisitions Acquisitions and mergers Emerging markets Multinational companies Innovations in manufacturing, information and communication technology and increasing liberalization in the global economy have enabled the birth of a new class of start ups that view...

... as distinctive heterogeneous units defines the reasoning of the paper. The paper aims to examine the impact of the crisis on the activities of multinational companies in the new member states of the European Union (EU). These are the transition economies that became members of the EU in 2004 and 2007, namely...

... Group Publishing Limited 2011 Multinational companies China Latin America Globalization 1. the partnership route through original equipment manufacture (OEM) or joint venturing (JV); 2. the acquisition route; and 3. the organic expansion route. The first route...

... and trajectories of Brazilian companies in international markets. Emerging markets Globalization Multinational companies Brazil Since the early 1990s, driven by globalization forces and the country's economic and institutional changes, large Brazilian companies have entered a new stage...

...Glauco Arbix Purpose The internationalization of local Brazilian firms is a very recent phenomenon, especially when considered in terms of the accelerated growth in the number of Brazilian‐owned multinational companies and the intensity of foreign investment that began in the year 2000. While...

... The paper puts forward a framework for analyzing determinants and outcomes of structures and strategies of multinational companies from emerging economies and surveys contemporary trends and features of outward FDI from these economies. Large scale overseas acquisitions have seen certain firms, hitherto...

...Sergey Filippov Purpose The focus of this paper is the emergence of Russia's multinational companies. It aims to analyse their motives to internationalise as well as the approaches to internationalisation. While relevance of the theoretical perspectives is highlighted, the purpose of this paper...

... is the frequent necessity to keep the acquired firm's managerial staff in place: that involves high costs, especially when compared to today's Chinese standards. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 International investments Multinational companies India China Europe The extent...

... Goldstein can be contacted at: Andrea.goldstein@oecd.org © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 International investments Emerging markets Multinational companies Brazil China The international expansion of large companies from emerging markets – so‐called emerging market...

... Publishing Limited 2009 Russia Emerging markets Market entry Multinational companies Manufacturing industries With the expansion of global business activity, the ability to analyze the key characteristics of potential host countries becomes increasingly important. The key to successful...

... to the current state of play as most of previous studies were focused on the USA. Emerging markets Foreign exchange Latin America Multinational companies Spain The 1990s was a decade of deep transformation for the Spanish economy, characterized by privatisation programmes, consolidation...

... strategies, and asserted that to be effective firms should consistently use only one of the three. This paper aims to address this apparent disagreement by discussing the transfer, by developed‐country multinational companies (MNCs), of a cost‐leadership strategy to emerging markets. Design/methodology...

...; and Italcementi (through Ciment Français) acquired the country's first and fifth‐largest cementeries, Suez Cement and Asec, respectively. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Investments Egypt Emerging markets Multinational companies Foreign trade According to the IMF annual report...