... and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at Link to the terms of the CC BY 4.0 licence. International political risk Decision theory Risk management Multilevel framework Strategic decision-making Multinational enterprises International political risk (IPR) represents...

... for multinational enterprises’ (MNEs) activities. Second, it emphasizes the importance of non-market strategies as tools of mitigating geopolitical risk and multi-actor global threats. Third, the paper explores how the extraction and international trade of natural resources turn into seminal factors of growing...

...Ipek Koparan; Alper Koparan Purpose This paper aims to investigate how competition intensity and global institutional diversity influence the decisions of multinational enterprises (MNEs) to invest in dynamic green capabilities (DGCs) for green transformation. It aims to understand why some MNEs...

... was developed to comprehend the maturity stage of various R&D internationalization concepts. Findings Most studies on R&D internationalization are influenced by perspectives from advanced-economy multinational enterprises (AMNEs), while perspectives from emerging-economy multinational enterprises...

...Sang-Bum Park Purpose Previous scholars have assumed that multinational enterprises (MNEs) can reduce the liability of foreignness and increase profitability by investing in corporate social responsibility (CSR). However, empirical validation of this assumption has rarely been attempted...

... model Extreme context Multinational enterprises As a response to major challenges such as terrorism and other conflicts, some policymakers turn to economic sanctions. Oxenstierna and Olsson (2015 , p. 9) note that sanctions represent a “foreign policy instrument commonly used by the twenty...

...André Sammartino; David Merrett; Pierre van der Eng; Simon Ville Purpose This paper argues for the benefits to international business (IB) of taking a much longer view at the engagement by multinational enterprises (MNEs) with host locations. Design/methodology/approach The authors showcase...

... of a shift towards stakeholder-oriented practices. This is of special relevance for international business research, especially because multinational enterprises (MNEs) encounter different national CG systems in diverse institutional contexts, and thus, have to manage global and local corporate social...

...Luc Fransen; Ans Kolk; Miguel Rivera-Santos Purpose This paper aims to examine the multiplicity of corporate social responsibility (CSR) standards, explaining its nature, dynamics and implications for multinational enterprises (MNEs) and international business (IB), especially in the context...

...Elisa Giuliani Purpose This paper aims to discuss the ways in which multinational enterprises (MNEs) may contribute to growing inequality. Design/methodology/approach By showing some macroscopic evidence of business-related human rights infringements, this paper claims that the negative...

... The authors find that Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) from highly financialized Liberal Market Economies will be associated with a greater reliance on formalized control mechanisms; this will enable the MNE’s headquarters to closely monitor subsidiary managers according to objective measures, to ensure...

... culturally narrow with a central locus in liberal market economies. The consequence of an expanded notion is to enable a questioning of the view that private property rights, as extended by the multinational enterprise (MNE) into non-Western economies, are always the best way of coordinating...

.... Findings – Internalization theory can be applied to the joint failures of economic and non-economic institutions, and this helps explain the growing “political role” of multinational enterprises in economies in transition as well as the phenomenon of increasing multinational firm activity...

...Axèle Giroud; Hafiz Mirza Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how the nature of the activities conducted by multinational enterprises globally and the governance modes are changing. Essentially, multinational enterprises (MNEs) structure and organize their activities in a more complex...

...Freya Smith Purpose – This paper aims to shed light on the potential implications for asset protection planning in multinational enterprises (MNEs) from the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)’s work on base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) and the global push towards...

...Mark Casson; Vittoria Giada Scalera; Debmalya Mukherjee; Alessandra Perri; Ram Mudambi Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide insights into the innovation trajectory, and knowledge pipelines of mature industry multinational enterprises (MNEs). The ability to innovate constantly...

.... The economic theory of the firm is central to the theory of the multinational enterprise (MNE). Design/methodology/approach – Multinationals play an important role in coordinating the international division of labour through internal markets. The paper reviews the economic principles that underlie...

... of embeddedness and continues with a critical analysis of Ferraris’s (2014) proposed framework of four main types of multinational enterprise (MNE) relationships. It provides suggestions for its improvement and application, as well as discusses the appropriate applications of embeddedness concept by international...

... studies only partially analyze this complex phenomenon and neglect one or more of these relationships. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Distance Multinational enterprises Multiple embeddedness Recombination capabilities Subsidiary-specific advantages Alberto Ferraris can...

.... Design/methodology/approach – This paper undertook an examination of the literature as it pertains to international business activities of multinational enterprises (MNE) and environmentally responsible management (ERM) practices. In keeping with the focus of this review, only articles that discussed...