The study, which was designed as a survey, sets to establish the capacity of some organizational components to predict knowledge transfer success in multinational enterprises. It involved a sample size of 125 drawn from employees in the production unit of Cadbury Nigeria Plc and Nestle Foods Plc. Questionnaires that contained scales which measured dimensions of organizational components and kno...

The United Nations put forward 17 Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 that were to be achieved by 2030. objective was alleviate inequalities and create a fair society for all. contention of this paper is multinational enterprises (MNEs) can play an important role achieving these goals. It also envisaged collaborative efforts governments, society, MNEs are necessary achieve impact new realitie...

1 Explaining emerging multinational acquisition in advanced economies: A learning and catch-up perspective Overcoming the liability of emergingness through internationalization by acquisition: Learning and competitive catch-up by emerging multinationals The study of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the past has been mainly focused on the large firms from the advanced economies (i.e., the so-...

In this work we focus on the search phase that precedes the knowledge transfer process. We argue that it is important to closely analyze this phase as, the common understanding of problem developed in this phase has a significant impact on the stages that follow. In this analysis we focus on two key factors: openness and the richness of media of communication that foster the openness within Mul...

Plain language summary: The rules for business vary not only between countries, but within countries. Subsidiaries of multinational enterprises (MNEs) thus have to consider both the national level and the local context when designing their business practices. To examine this impact, we study R&D outsourcing in four Eastern member states of the European Union, and find that local R&D outsourcing...

Research on the diffusion of organisational practices in multinational enterprises has focussed largely on manufacturing firms in economically developed countries. This paper explores the transfer of human resource management and customer service practices to China by Japanese multinational retail firms. Such firms face competing pressures, the imperative and potential advantages of implementin...

Due to the increased internationalization of business R&D, foreign-controlled multinational enterprises are now seen by most governments as a central actor in national innovation systems and as a catalyst for upgrading in global value chains. As a result, competition among countries to attract the R&D activities of multinational enterprises has increased substantially during the last years. The...