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Multinational Corporations’ Interactions with Host Institutions: Taking Stock and Moving Forward
Over more than 30 years, research on the interactions between multinational corporations (MNCs) and their institutional host environments has...
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Multinational Corporations and Social Innovation in Emerging Markets
The concept of social innovation has garnered increasing attention across various disciplines, driven by a growing recognition of the need to address...
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Understanding Coopetition Within Multinational Corporations: The Perspective of Relationship Between Subsidiaries
Coopetition has been the topic of a widespread discussion in the recent years. However, not all problems and types of the coopetition have been...
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When little things make a big difference: A Bourdieusian perspective on skilled migrants’ linguistic, social, and economic capital in multinational corporations
While general foreign language proficiency is shown to provide important power and career-related advantages to employees in organizations,...
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MNCs’ Corporate Social Innovation in Emerging Markets: Antecedents, Outcomes, and Boundary Conditions
This study examines (i) the relationship between first social mover multinational corporations (MNCs) and corporate social innovation (CSI); (ii) the...
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MNCs’ Social Innovation in Emerging Markets: A Stakeholder Perspective
This study aimed to identify the effects of primary and secondary stakeholders on social innovation practices in local markets by subsidiaries of...
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Domestic financial conditions and MNCs’ global competitiveness: evidence from the Swiss franc shock
Our study examines the influence of the local financial conditions in a multinational corporation’s (MNC) home country on its global strategy and...
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Employee turnover in multinational corporations: a supervised machine learning approach
This research explores the potential of supervised machine learning techniques in transforming raw data into strategic knowledge in the context of...
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Diversity and Inclusion Management of Japanese Multinational Corporations: Its Effectiveness and Implications
Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) has gained strategic significance in business. This chapter notes the strategic importance of D&I and investigates...
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Multinational firms and sustainability in global supply chains: scope and boundaries of responsibility
Multinational corporations and their global suppliers are increasingly expected to employ sustainability practices throughout their supply chains. As...
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A review of location, politics, and the multinational corporation: Bringing political geography into international business
How has international business (IB) research evolved to account for the politicization of the context in which multinational corporations (MNCs)...
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The dark side of globalization: Evidence from the impact of COVID-19 on multinational companies
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to economic and health crises (“twin crises”) worldwide. Using a sample of firms from 73 countries over the period...
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Corporate Commitment to Decent Work and Sustainable Development: A Quantitative Analysis of Corporate Reports of DAX 40 MNCs
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development ascribes specific roles to business organisations and has reinvigorated the discussions on the link...
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MNCs’ Intermediate Units and Their Choice of Control Mechanisms
This paper analyzes how MNCs’ intermediate units—those that exercise authority over other subsidiaries—apply specific control mechanisms:...
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My best frenemy: a history-to-theory approach to MNCs’ corporate diplomatic activities
We study how a multinational corporation may take advantage of geopolitical tensions to further its goals. We maintain that multinationals can...
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Risk Management of Manufacturing Multinational Corporations: The Effects of Supply Chain Integration
Through the lens of organizational information processing theory, this study aims to investigate the contingencies of supply chain risk management...
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M2W and the Multinational Enterprise
The multinational enterprise epitomizes the Me to We (M2W) nexus, given the myriad of relationships global corporations maintain with both business...
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MNCs as dispersed structures of power: Performance and management implications of power distribution in the subsidiary portfolio
Multinational corporations (MNCs) are considered as dispersed structures of power, in which diverse headquarters (HQ)–subsidiary power relationships...
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Control changes in multinational corporations: Adjusting control approaches in practice
The issue of control in multinational corporations (MNCs) is central to international business scholarship. However, prior literature tends to...
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Strategic Alignment of Multinational Corporations for Frugal Innovation—A Case Study
The phenomenon of frugal innovation gains increasing attention among practitioners and academics. However, the literature on frugal innovation is...