What allows MNCs to maintain their sustainability practices over the long-term? This is an important but under-examined question. To address this question, we investigate both the development and sustenance of sustainability practices. We use the dynamic capabilities perspective, rooted in resource-based view literature, as the theoretical basis. We argue that MNCs that simultaneously pursue bo...

Our contribution to the expanding literature on the globalization of research and innovation is to investigate the extent to which sector-specific developments in an emerging technology (such as increasing interdisciplinarity and complexity) affect inventive activities developed abroad. We look at how technological diversity and scientific excellence of host countries in the field of nanotechno...

OBJECTIVE We tested the hypothesis that carvedilol, a beta-adrenoceptor and alpha-adrenoceptor antagonist with potent antioxidant property, could inhibit tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha)-induced endothelial adhesiveness to human mononuclear cells (MNCs), an early sign of atherogenesis. METHODS AND RESULTS Circulating MNCs were isolated from the peripheral blood of healthy subjects. Com...

The objective of this paper is to simultaneously survey the foreign exchange risk practices of large UK, USA and Asia Pacific multinational companies (MNCs). It investigated whether foreign exchange risk management practices vary internationally, including for the first time a large sample Asia Pacific MNCs. From 179 (30%) usable responses it is shown that there are statistically significant re...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the anticancer effect and related mechanisms of gambogic acid (GA), a traditional Chinese medicine, on human leukemia cell line K562, together with the effect on bone marrow mononuclear cells (MNCs). MATERIAL AND METHODS K562 cells and MNCs were treated with various concentrations and treatment times of GA. Inhibitory rate was detected by us...

This paper addresses three questions: (i) Are multinational firms (MNCs) really better than markets at transferring knowledge across borders? (ii) How actively do MNCs exchange knowledge with their host countries? (iii) Do they contribute as much to local knowledge as they learn from their host countries? To answer these questions, I analyze data on citations for over half a million patents fro...

Introduction 1. Globalization of Industries, Strategies, Firms and Marketing Activities 2. MNCs’ Marketing Activities: towards an integrated global Approach? 3. The Study 3.1 Research Questions and Methodology 3.2 Principal Findings 3.2.1 Italian MNCs and their Marketing Orientation 3.2.2 Means and Reasons for Implementing and Integrating Global Marketing Activities 3.2.3 The Correlation betwee...

MNCs and regional innovation systems differ widely in their knowledge generation and dissemination processes. We propose these differences provide systematic challenges for MNC units tapping into locally vested skills, combining their findings with existing knowledge and disseminating this internally. Our aim is to develop a framework for conceptualising the knowledge transfer process between M...

Innovation performance of multinational corporations (MNCs) derives from access to and utilization a combination explorative exploitative knowledge across heterogeneous settings. These settings increasingly encompass flagship industries in emerging economies. There is limited research, however, that scrutinizes the processes sourcing within such dynamic host environments, taking into account MN...

Focusing on multinational corporations (MNCs), we examine the impact of country risk on intra-firm trade linkages between a foreign subsidiary and the rest of the MNC’s global network. Panel data analysis on 3362 subsidiaries of 1050 MNCs covering the period 1983-1996 indicate that country risk has a positive impact on the subsidiary’s intensity of intra-firm trade. Additionally, this positive ...