Globalization has been a major phenomenon since the 1980s. As many multinational enterprises (MNEs) grow their presence globally, they have been supported by distributed IT resources that are organized either as centralized IT, decentralized IT, or federated IT. However, despite the significant increase in business complexity in the last decade, there has been relatively little systematic resea...

Decisions of the European Union Commission regarding taxation agreements between competent tax authorities and multinational enterprises have been widely discussed. Within this discussion, implementation selectivity criterion specifically arm’s length principle, which is accepted by as a necessity in application state aid rules, has received lot criticism. This study will focus on assessments d...

The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system selection is an early phase in the ERP adoption process. When organizations evaluate ERP, they commonly develop their own criteria that usually involve various and vendor related factors. While process critical, however, there apparent research gap literature. effort also focuses on system’s fit with organizational requirements needs. Thus, because ...

Tourism businesses are operating in an increasingly turbulent environment and are being forced to react to extreme circumstances that are outside of their control. This paper examines the affects of SARS on tourism enterprises in China through a national survey of hotels, travel agencies and other tourism-related businesses. While all types of enterprises were adversely affected, it is shown th...

The past two decades have witnessed the significant growth of emerging markets and rise market multinational enterprises (EMNEs) (Luo Tung 2007) [...]

The management of host country employees is often portrayed as a particularly fraught dimension for multinational firms. The problems involved are considered exponentially greater when there are substantial institutional differences and “cultural distance” between the host country and a multinational firm’s parent country, as is assumed to be the case for Western firms operating in mainland Chi...

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are increasingly shifting from global or multinational strategies towards a transnational strategy (Barlett & Ghoshal 1989), as intense competition drives MNEs to simultaneously pursue scale, responsiveness, and innovation. Such a shift has important implications for IT management. How can IT in MNEs be managed to enable all three objectives? We draw on ambidext...

The Brazilian Ministry of Labour has been attempting to modify the norms used to analyse industrial accidents in the country. For this purpose, in 1994 it tried to make compulsory use of the causal tree approach to accident analysis, an approach developed in France during the 1970s, without having previously determined whether it is suitable for use under the industrial safety conditions that p...

Multinational Enterprises face major impediments to transferring firm specific advantages within the MNE network given their relatively low capacity to absorb knowledge from other internationally dispersed units. Additionally, because MNE units are located in two (or more) distinct nations, the effectiveness of crossborder transfer of organizational knowledge is profoundly affected by the cultu...