Post-acquisition integration of emerging market multinational corporations: a research agenda

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...

Multinational Corporations’ Economic and Human Rights Impacts on Developing Countries: a Review and Research Agenda

Developing countries are attracting a significant portion of global Foreign Direct Investments. Governments of such countries often compete fiercely for attracting Multinational Corporations (MNCs) in the expectation of the advantages they will bring to their economies, often prioritizing economic goals over fundamental human rights. For long, economists have analysed the economic impacts of MN...

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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)...

Information integration: A research agenda

The theme for this special issue—information integration—reflects the growing importance of integration in general, and data integration in particular, as a driving force in information technology spending. This essay discusses information integration along three axes—data types, federation, and intelligence. Several important problem areas are emerging—storage and retrieval of XML (Extensible ...