Environmental sustainability practices and offshoring activities of multinational corporations across emerging and developed markets

Multinational corporations - the emerging research agenda

Since the bulk of management information systems (MIS) research in the past has been ‘domestic’ in nature, it has failed to grasp the strategic challenges posed by information systems found in multinational corporations. As they usually involve hundreds of data centers, their scale is much larger than the size of systems normally studied. Theories developed in international business can be usef...

Globalization: Managing Multinationals. A comparison of offshoring and outsourcing strategies in UK and German multinational corporations

This paper outlines research exploring differences in approach to outsourcing and offshoring by multinational corporations. In particular, a comparison is drawn between German and UK headquartered organizations in the airline and engineering sectors. A novel conceptual framework is developed; and the initial findings from two case studies are that German organizations are less inclined to outso...

The evolution of R&D capability in multinational corporations in emerging markets: evidence from China

This paper presents a longitudinal case of Motorola’s R&D subsidiary in Beijing over the period 1998–2008. Through the construction of key events and changes, the paper unfolds the evolutionary process of Motorola’s R&D capability in China, and explores the mechanisms driving that evolution. We find that this R&D subsidiary evolved through four stages: from a local adaption unit performing adap...

Re-shoring & Offshoring Trends: Managing Engineering Multinationals - A comparison of offshoring and outsourcing strategies in UK and German multinational corporations

UK and German headquartered engineering multinational corporations (MNCs) are compared with a focus on their outsourcing and offshoring initiatives. A novel conceptual framework is developed that uses differing varieties of capitalism (VoC) to compare and contrast a series of criteria. Underlying theory is taken from the resource based view (RBV) of the firm and global production networks (GPNs...

Multinational corporations.