Research on multinational corporations (MNCs) and host government political risk in developing countries has largely ignored local electoral politics, economic policies, and the MNC investment incentives they may generate. In response, I develop and test a framework for understanding MNC risk and investment behavior based on political business cycle considerations. Analyses of 408 MNC investmen...

This article revisits our 1995 assessment of the international health promotion agenda. Then we concluded that a more radical agenda for change was required in which responses were both technically sound and infused with an appreciation of the imperative for a change in politics and power. We conclude that this message is even more relevant in 2011 in an era when the continuing rise of transnat...

The effect of the overweight epidemic on energy consumption and environmental degradation was investigated for a panel thirty-one countries from Europe 1990 to 2016. quantile via moments approach used revealed that increases carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. It does this in two ways. First, processed foods multinational food corporations, fast-food chains supermarket chains. This process impacts ...

One of the key issues for multinational corporations (MNCs) is whether to standardize their marketing approach across all countries or adapt their practices to fit each country. In order to make this decision, MNCs must determine if their marketing approach is cross-culturally appropriate and equivalent from country to country. Unfortunately, recent research indicates that the vast majority of ...

If farmers are risk averse, greater farm income variability should increase off-farm labor supply. This effect is confirmed for a sample of Kansas farmers. Off-farm employment of farmers and their spouses is also found to be significantly influenced by farm experience, off-farm work experience, farm size, leverage, efficiency, and farm-specific education. In addition, farm operators and spouses...

U.S. multinational corporations (MNCs) hold significant amounts of cash abroad. Using a handcollected sample of large U.S. MNCs, we find that the percentage of cash trapped overseas has a significantly negative impact on the market value of a firm’s cash holdings. Such negative effect is more pronounced when firms are subject to higher repatriation tax rate, when firms have higher costs of rais...

Viewing knowledge as rooted in individuals, this study investigates knowledge transfer in multinational corporations (MNCs) from an individual-level perspective. Specifically, I focus on inpatriates as a particular group of knowledge actors in MNCs and examine the role of inpatriates’ boundary spanning between their home unit and the headquarters for their knowledge transfer to headquarters sta...

The purpose of this paper is to present a new framework for evaluating the impacts of transnational corporations (TNCs) in developing countries. The framework is based on emerging frameworks in development studies and geographic research that assess how TNCs affect local resource access and livelihood change in developing countries. The paper argues that households are the primary local-level s...

This article examines the application of Americans with Disabilities Act requirements to professional associations like physician practice groups. In general, employers with 15 or more full-time employees must comply with the Act. However, the definition of an employee is sometimes unclear, especially as applied to business entities commonly used by physician practice groups. A recent case deci...