The Regional Multinationals

Author : Alan M. Rugman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1139442864

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The Regional Multinationals by Alan M. Rugman Pdf

Although many firms label themselves 'global', very few can back this up with truly global sales and operations. In The Regional Multinationals Alan Rugman examines first-hand data from multinationals and finds that most multinationals are strongly regional, with international operations in their home regions of North America, the US or Asia. Only a tiny proportion of the world's top 500 companies actually sell the same product and deliver the same services around the world. Rugman exposes the facts behind the popular myths of doing business globally, explores a variety of regional models and offers an authoritative agenda for future business strategy. The Regional Multinationals is the essential resource for all academics and students in International Business, Organization and Strategic Management, as well as those with an interest in finding out how multinationals really work in practice and how future strategy must respond.

Author : Alan Rugman,Joseph R. D'Cruz
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191584268

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Multinationals as Flagship Firms by Alan Rugman,Joseph R. D'Cruz Pdf

The international dimension of business networks has remained relatively unexplored, mainly because international business writers focus upon multinational enterprises and network writers ignore international issues. In this book Professors Alan Rugman and Joseph D'Cruz bridge the literature on networks and multinationals by introducing the new concept of the flagship firm. In each business network strategic leadership is provided by the flagship firm, which is defined as a multinational enterprise. It has other partners: key suppliers; key customers; key competitors; and key partners in the non-business infrastructure. These business networks are usually located in the 'triad' regions of the European Union, North America, and Japan. There are strong cross-border network linkages within these regions, but less 'globalization' than regional economic integration. The theory of the flagship firm/five partners model is applied to the telecommunications, chemicals, automotive, and electronics sectors, amongst others, and the book reports on both empirical studies and field research of the international competitiveness of these sectors. The book will be of interest to academics, students, and professionals in the areas of international business, strategic management, political science, law, and sociology.

Author : John Cantwell,Simona Iammarino
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134487318

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Multinational Corporations and European Regional Systems of Innovation by John Cantwell,Simona Iammarino Pdf

In globalising economies, particularly those going through a process of economic integration such as those economies within the EU, regions forge an increasing number of linkages with other locations within and across national borders. This is largely carried out by the technological efforts of Multinational Corporations (MNCs). This book explores the regional dimension of Europe in terms of localised technological comparative advantages and the location of innovative activities by MNCs. Using an empirical analysis John Cantwell and Simona Iammarino cover such important themes as: *MNC technological activities and economic wealth *MNCs and the regional systems of innovation in Italy, UK, Germany and France *the geographical hierarchy across European national borders.

Author : Alan Rugman
Publisher : Random House
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781448108787

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The End Of Globalization by Alan Rugman Pdf

Professor Alan Rugman is one of the world's leading academics in the field of international business and strategy. In The End of Globalization he argues that we are currently witnessing the end of globalization and draws on new research and analysis to argue that globalization never really happened anyway. Like Bartlett and Ghoshal's Managing Across Borders, this book is aimed at the market of practitioners and policy-makers, (not academics and theoreticians) showing them what the current state of the global economy means for them. Global business is dominated by the 500 largest multinational enterprises (MNEs) out of a total of 30,000 MNEs altogether. The 500 MNEs that are the engines of international business 'think regional and act local'. Using analysis drawn from world-leading companies, Professor Rugman looks in detail at the managerial implications of the end of globalization, including in-depth discussion of corporate strategies, organizational structures, and analytical methods.

Author : Simona Iammarino,Philip McCann
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781781954799

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Multinationals and Economic Geography by Simona Iammarino,Philip McCann Pdf

'The world economy is subject to a rapidly increasing globalization, and multinational enterprises are their major driving force. This brand new book on multinationals and economic geography by two world leading economic geographers is a landmark that provides an integrated and dynamic perspective on the economic geography of the multinational enterprise. To fully understand this process of globalization, the book explains forcefully and persuasively that one needs a dynamic perspective on multinational enterprises that brings together disparate literatures on economic geography, knowledge and innovation, global network cities, and international business and management. Embedding it in modern theory of innovation and geography, the book provides not only a state-of-the-art of theories and empirics on the location of multinationals, but goes far beyond that. This book is an absolute "must-read" for any scholar and any student that is interested in multinationals and their location.' – Ron Boschma, Utrecht University, The Netherlands and Lund University, Sweden 'Despite often playing second fiddle to clusters in the economic geography literature, multinationals are fundamental drivers of economic development. As generators and diffusers of knowledge they have played an essential role in shaping the new world economic order. No book captures this better than Simona Iammarino and Philip McCann's Multinationals and Economic Geography, a must read for anyone eager to fully understand the new economic geography of globalisation.' – Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, London School of Economics, UK After more than fifty years of systematic research on multinational enterprises (MNEs) what is apparent is that there is, as yet, no unified or dominant theory of the MNE. The objective of this book is to bring into focus one particular dimension of MNE behaviour and activity that has been relatively under-researched – namely the geography of the multinational enterprise – as understood through the lens of innovation and technological change. The authors clearly demonstrate that geography is becoming increasingly important for MNEs and, in turn, MNEs are becoming progressively more important for economic geography. The pivot on which this vital relationship turns is the creation, diffusion and management of new knowledge. This unique book will prove a fascinating read for academics, students and researchers across a broad range of areas including geography, economic geography, regional science, international business and management, innovation studies, economic development. Professionals such as corporate managers and policymakers in these fields would also find this book to be of great interest.

Author : Christoph Czychon
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783658337377

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Regional and Global Multinationals by Christoph Czychon Pdf

Based on their ability to facilitate interdependencies across the borders of national and regional markets, multinationals enterprises (MNEs) act as the key drivers of world trade and investment activities. While recent global challenges additionally highlight the need to explain and assess the status and progress of internationality/-regionality, previous research renders the concept of firm-level globalization as a special but not the general case. Christoph Czychon dedicates specific attention to the research on regional and global MNEs based on an extensive and rigorous review of the existing academic literature as well as the analysis of 2005-2015 empirical data from the European context with a focus on CAC40- and DAX30-listed firms. In doing so, the author offers insights and results that stand in contrast to the original narrative of the debate and presents a comprehensive and updated perspective on regional and global MNEs.

Author : H. Takahashi
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1137307595

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The Challenge for Japanese Multinationals by H. Takahashi Pdf

The Challenge for Japanese Multinationals is about strategic issues of modern management from the view of global business practice. In the 2010 issue of Fortune Magazine's top 500 Multi-National Corporations, the USA ranked number one with 139 companies. This was followed with 71 companies in Japan and 149 in the EU. With the maturing of the domestic market, Japanese MNCs - not only in manufacturing industries but in non-manufacturing industries as well, will continue to globalize, with overseas expansion accelerating in emerging countries such as BRICs.

Author : Christoph Czychon
Publisher : Springer Gabler
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3658337362

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Regional and Global Multinationals by Christoph Czychon Pdf

Based on their ability to facilitate interdependencies across the borders of national and regional markets, multinationals enterprises (MNEs) act as the key drivers of world trade and investment activities. While recent global challenges additionally highlight the need to explain and assess the status and progress of internationality/-regionality, previous research renders the concept of firm-level globalization as a special but not the general case. Christoph Czychon dedicates specific attention to the research on regional and global MNEs based on an extensive and rigorous review of the existing academic literature as well as the analysis of 2005-2015 empirical data from the European context with a focus on CAC40- and DAX30-listed firms. In doing so, the author offers insights and results that stand in contrast to the original narrative of the debate and presents a comprehensive and updated perspective on regional and global MNEs.

Author : Peter Muchlinski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199282562

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Multinational Enterprises and the Law by Peter Muchlinski Pdf

This book analyses the major regulatory areas relating to multinational enterprises. It covers the main economic law issues relating to jurisdiction, entry and establishment controls and liberalisation, tax, company law, competition and technology transfer. It also deals with the increasingly prominent demands for corporate social responsibility covering labour, rights, human rights and the environment, and the recent developments in arbitral decisions that give increased importanceto the protection standards contained in ...

Author : Ágnes Szunomár
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3030551679

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Emerging-market Multinational Enterprises in East Central Europe by Ágnes Szunomár Pdf

The rise of multinational enterprises (MNEs) from emerging markets is topical, important and poses a number of questions and challenges that require considerable attention in the future from academia as well as business management. The recent takeovers of high-profile companies in developed or developing countries by non-European emerging-market MNEs (EMNEs) – such as Lenovo, Wanhua (China), Hindalco (India), CVRD (Brazil), Cemex (Mexico), Lukoil (Russia), etc. – as well as the greenfield or brownfield investments of emerging companies (such as Huawei, ZTE, Tata, Pepco, etc.) show a new trend where new kind of firms become major players globally. EMNEs have become important players in several regions around the globe, ranging from the least developed countries of Africa through the developing markets in Latin America and Asia to the developed countries of the United States or the European Union, including East Central European (ECE) countries. EMNEs presence on the global level has resulted in numerous studies in the international literature but those research results barely cover EMNEs’ activities in the ECE region (in the East Central European EU member countries, including the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia). The existing books typically focus on the investment activity of a single country or region (such as China or East Asia) but a comprehensive analysis is still missing in this regard. The novelty of this edited volume is that it aims at exploring EMNEs location determinants, strategies, activities and challenges in East Central Europe by discussing its anomalies to the traditional theories as well as to other types of MNEs in the ECE region. The authors focus on EMNEs not only from China but from other important emerging countries, too, such as Russia, India, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, Brazil or South Africa.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Employees
ISBN : 9222116313

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Déclaration de principes tripartite sur les entreprises multinationales et la politique sociale by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alan M. Rugman,Joseph R. D'Cruz
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198295626

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Multinationals as Flagship Firms by Alan M. Rugman,Joseph R. D'Cruz Pdf

This book develops a conceptual framework for understanding the network of relationships that exists around the hub of large multinational firms. The authors bring together perspectives from international business and the organisational analysis of networks to explain their model which is supported by case evidence from several sectorsDStelecoms, autos, chemicals, retailing, and financial services.

Author : Patrick Heinecke
Publisher : Physica
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3790826413

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Success Factors of Regional Strategies for Multinational Corporations by Patrick Heinecke Pdf

This work examines the factors that drive the success of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) in their pursuit of regional strategies. The author develops a comprehensive regional success factor model, by which the effects of regional management autonomy and regional product and service adaptation on the regional success of MNCs as well as the interaction effects of regional orientation and inter-regional distance are investigated. The model is evaluated by means of the partial-least-squares (PLS) method on the basis of a survey-based inquiry of the Fortune Global 500 firms with success indicator data for a period of nine years. The findings highlight the importance of considering the different degrees of contextual influence in the design of regional strategies, where low degrees of regional management autonomy and high levels of regional product/service adaptation are found to be appropriate for MNCs to be regionally successful.

Author : Ken'ichi Ōmae,Kenichi Ohmae
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780743236348

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Triad Power by Ken'ichi Ōmae,Kenichi Ohmae Pdf

Renowned business strategist Kenichi Ohmae's path breaking ideas on the globalization of industries and products have made headlines in leading financial newspapers and business publications on three continents. Now, in this eagerly awaited book, Ohmae integrates and expands his much discussed concepts. Ohmae explains that becoming an insider means nothing less than full membership in the indigenous business communities at each corner of the Triad.

Author : Academy of International Business .
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137472311

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Location of International Business Activities by Academy of International Business . Pdf

In recent years an extensive range of new research has been revisiting the topic of the location of international business activities, from a variety of different perspectives and background interests. This work has been inspired in part by two apparently quite different but actually related contemporary trends: on the one hand, an emergence or revitalization of clusters of activities co-located in or around selected global city regions or fast growing metropolitan areas; and on the other hand, an increased global dispersion of activities conducted within the value chains managed or coordinated by many large multinational enterprises and their business partners. The former trend has given rise to discussions of how the elite of the cultural-cognitive economy of the 21st century (in Allen Scott's terminology) or the creative class (Richard Florida's term) are now being drawn or brought back to major urban centers; while the latter trend is associated with debates over outsourcing, and the economic and social consequences of shifts in the ownership and location of distinct nodes of value chains once production systems become more fragmented and the component parts of such systems become more geographically dispersed. An increased interest in the subject of international business location has been shown by scholars in Strategic Management, in Economic Geography, and in Regional Science, as well as in our own interdisciplinary field of International Business Studies. However, as is often the case in academic research communities, these bodies of scholarship have tended to develop at something of a distance from one another, each conversing internally more than they have with one another. Location of International Business Activities aims to promote a greater conversation between those interested in the topic of Location from various different backgrounds or starting points. The articles are taken from a special issue on the theme of the Multinational in Geographic Space which was published by The Journal of International Business Studies in 2013.