Collaboration and coordination within multinational enterprises need unambiguous semantics of data across business units, legal contexts, cultures etc. Therefore data management has to provide enterprise-wide data ownership, an unambiguous distinction between "global" and "local" data, business-driven data quality specifications, and data consistency across multiple applications. Data architect...

The facility site selection is important for the decision-maker/leader of the multinational enterprises. In order to increase efficiency of decision-making ability of managers under the fuzzy investment environment, we propose this study. The paper is to describe the development of a fuzzy decision support system for selecting the appropriate facility site among countries of multinational enter...

This paper seeks to shed light on certain major aspects of public policy and the performance of business enterprises in India. First, it highlights the effectiveness of the public policies pursued and their asymmetric effects on corporate governance and performance of multinational and local enterprises in India. Second, it suggests that the so called ‘threat’ of large scale disruption of local...

Novel linked employer-employee data for multinational enterprises and their global workforces show that multinational enterprises that expand abroad retain more domestic jobs than competitors without foreign expansions. Propensity-score estimation demonstrates that the foreign expansion itself is a dominant explanatory factor for reduced worker separation rates. Bounding, concomitant variable t...

Sectors with a long regulatory tradition have recently experienced intense activity by multinationals whose international operations and relocation threats represent a new cause for concern for regulators. The present paper analyses a multinational serving two countries and being regulated by two uninformed national authorities. The firm is shown to favor, or cross-subsidize, the country with a...

The recent growth in diplomatic, civil and military conflicts presents evolving challenges for international business. These risks create new sources of country risk. Country risk, in this sense, is commonly associated with the risk faced by enterprises in developed countries while conducting their business operations in developing or politically volatile countries. Few studies, however, have b...

Multinational business expansion and competition have escalated in the recent years, particularly in Eastern Europe and the third world. Tremendous opportunities, therefore, have been created for many companies and formidable hindrances have been amassed against others. Business failure rates among these multinational enterprises have alarmingly increased beyond expectation. So has their IT imp...

Multinational business expansion and competition have escalated in the recent years, particularly in Eastern Europe and the third world. Tremendous opportunities, therefore, have been created for many companies and formidable hindrances have been amassed against others. Business failure rates among these multinational enterprises have alarmingly increased beyond expectation. So has their IT imp...

How do people judge nanotechnology risks that are completely unfamiliar to them? Drawing on results of previous studies on framing and risk perception, two hypotheses about potential influences on nanotechnology risk perception were examined in an experimental study: 1) Risk perception of nanotechnology is influenced by its benefit perception. 2) Risk perception of nanotechnology is influenced ...