Global Business Strategy: Multinational Corporations Venturing into Emerging 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...

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...

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Multinational Corporations: Corporate Social

The aim of this paper is to identify contribution from MNCs from Australia in Thailand in the form of corporate social responsibility (CSR). The key focus is given to the analysis of CSR activities from MNCs in an effort to fight poverty in Thailand. Secondary data was collected from two MNCs in Thailand. The results of this study identify two key themes: (1) climate change and poverty, and (2)...

Bargains Old and New: Multinational Corporations in Global Governance

This paper outlines an approach for understanding the role of multinational corporations (MNCs) in global governance. We develop a typology of regime types with two dimensions, the goal of the regime, which can be market enabling or regulatory, and the location of authority, which can be national, regional, or international, with public and private elements. MNCs tend to support the creation of...