In recent years, the debate about climate change and the competitiveness of multinational corporations (MNCs) has increased. Decision-makers in MNCs often face ambiguities on how their business competitiveness could be impacted by their actions to mitigate climate change. By combining knowledge from the field of climatology with the management literature, this study suggests that climate change...

While one-site, one-instance implementation was the common practice during the infancy of ERP systems, the growing business trend towards globalization and the advancement of ERP and telecommunication technology have increased the popularity of centralized single-instance ERP systems among multinational corporations. The ERP distribution decision in MNCs has been mainly associated with the corp...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is a major factor in the globalization scenario. However, contrary to the core pro-market tenets of the economic school supporting globalization, the flows of FDI have grown side by side with a whole array of FDI subsidies dispensed by the “visible hand” of the state. Scholars have studied the links between FDI and economic growth and between subsidies and actual...

This study identifies two categories of exploration for competence-creating subsidiaries of contemporary multinational corporations (MNCs) by taking both the subsidiary’s and the MNC’s existing knowledge into consideration. While subsidiary exploration not new to the MNC (SE1) brings in knowledge that is only new to the focal subsidiary but not new to the rest of the MNC, subsidiary exploration...

This paper outlines ways of increasing the productivity and performance of organisational networks within multinational corporations. It explores their heterogeneous knowledge structures, while analysing their strengths and weaknesses. The research examines the collaborative knowledge networks of one of the largest multinational defence and aerospace organisations in the world and adopts an int...

This chapter aims to provide a complete characterization of the different perspectives of customer relationship management (CRM) and its potentialities to support knowledge management practices in a multinational context. It describes the strategic and technological dimensions of CRM and how its adoption supports the development of a learning and customer-focused organization, with special emph...

Fundamentals of project management are changing by globalisation of markets, mergers of international companies, and integration of managerial and business processes in global corporations. A clearly recognisable trend in multinational companies since the mid-1980s has been globalisation of R&D and competence portfolios. Applied development is usually conducted in form of a distributed project ...

Multinational corporations (MNCs) are facing various labor legislations and labor institutions in different countries. This paper investigates the functions and effectiveness of Chinese unions in MNCs. Survey evidences suggest that Chinese unions play cooperative roles in helping MNCs to harmonize industrial relations (internal functions), and to build trust and long run coordination with the C...