The study of power and politics in multinational companies (MNCs) has been a niche area of study for both scholars of organization studies (OS) and international business (IB). Further, the awareness ...of each research community with regard to the efforts of the other has been rather superficial. Hence, bridge-building efforts to cross-fertilize ideas developed in IB and OS in order to enhance our understanding of the nature and role of politics and power in the MNC are overdue. In order to develop the basis for integration, we trace the conceptual developments in the two disciplines, that enables us to highlight particularly promising opportunities for integrative advances. Using a typology which differentiates among four ‘faces’ of power in the study of management and organization, we discuss how focusing on each of these four dimensions may help us to both see and make sense of different aspects of power relations and facets of politics in MNCs. We then use the ‘four faces’ framework to outline how OS and IB approaches can be integrated to develop a more complete understanding of politics and power in MNCs. Finally we suggest some directions for future research.
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We examined firm-level and country-level antecedents of R&D internationalization strategies, focusing on differences between enterprises in emerging and advanced economies. Previous research often ...focuses on the relative importance of home-base-exploiting versus home-base-augmenting knowledge transfer strategies. We suggest that country-level and firm-level effects differ for the two strategies, and hence, we examined each strategy independently. Collecting data in China, India, the United States, and Germany, we demonstrated that firms' relative technological position as a firm-level characteristic can explain differences in home-base-exploiting strategies between emerging and advanced economies. In contrast, home-base-augmenting is more closely related to exploratory institutional environments, a country-level factor. Thus, either firm- or country-level antecedents can gain a dominant role, depending on the strategy implemented.
•We report a four-country study on MNEs’ R&D internationalization strategies.•We test firm- and country-level explanations of EMNE vs. AMNE differences.•Home-base-exploiting strategies are mostly driven by firm-level factors.•Home-base-augmenting strategies are mostly driven by country-level factors.•Both types of antecedents contribute to EMNE vs. AMNE differences.
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From the global supply chain perspective, this research explores how multinational companies (MNCs) can extend corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices to emerging countries such as China. A ...two-stage supply chain game model consisting of a Chinese supplier and a MNC is constructed. The study finds that an increase in the level of the Chinese supplier’s CSR increases the product demand and the stakeholders’ economic profits, but reduces the supplier’s economic return; the product demand and the stakeholders’ benefits increase along with the product green degree improvement, but the changes in the Chinese supplier’s economic profits are jointly affected by the level of CSR and green production efficiency. The supply chain coordination can be achieved based on a revenue sharing contract. Finally, the effects of revenue sharing fraction and supplier’s CRS level on product green degree, supplier’s revenue and MNC’s earnings are discussed by numerical simulation.
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•A game model for suppliers and multinational companies considering CSR is presented.•Suppliers’ CRS help increase MNCs’ revenue, but decrease suppliers’ revenue.•MNCs can motivate suppliers to increase CSR level and product greenness by revenue sharing.•Revenue of both parties can be increased under revenue sharing.
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The primary objective of this study was to understand what marketing strategies global multinational companies should follow and how those strategies could be effectively implemented. A quantitative ...approach with the use of an electronic questionnaire was adopted. As part of the research strategy, a positivism approach was also adopted due to the principle that truth and reality are free and independent of the viewer and observer. This study followed a probability approach as it includes any selection method where sample members were selected from the targeted population on a purely random basis. For this research study, primary data collection and the use of a self-administered questionnaire to gather data were the most preferred options. The literature review investigated the general institutional framework on the African continent and highlighted many disparities with developed markets where the majority of the global MNCs come from. Global enterprises have great ambition for growth and they have identified Africa with exceptional potential in their expansion plans. This study accentuates the significance of institutions as critical mechanisms in the regulatory framework of any country, as well as the potential implication for foreign MNCs wishing to enter that market. It is hoped that this research will assist in enhancing the growing research interest within the context of international business theory.
The multinational companies represent the main topic of many studies due to their major role in the progress and the economic growth through the development of technical and social innovations. As ...the society has grown, business organizations with cross-border activity have developed a strong position in the global economy, especially due to the high flow of resources that they manage. Therefore, it should be take into consideration the fact that the decision on carry out operations in several markets, states, regions is based on accessing resources, gaining advantages, improving their competitiveness. The main issue that the present study attempts to capture concerns the intense activity of these categories of organizations worldwide, but also the power that they have accumulated over time. The research includes a review of the opinions of some authors in the field of international affairs, as well as a series of empirical evidence presented by a number of international organizations about the activity of these economic entities on the world market. This analysis attempts to highlight the major impact that big business organizations have had on the development of society without omitting the power that they have gained by conducting operations in different areas of the world. In fact, the analyzed aspects show an orientation of companies in this category in certain geographical areas similar to the country of origin.
The urgency of conducting research in the field of outsourcing services for the formation of reporting on transfer pricing at the enterprise has been determined. The structure of the transfer pricing ...reporting package has been determined. The directions of outsourcing of services for the formation of reporting on transfer pricing have been disclosed. The notion of pure outsourcing and co-sourcing of transfer pricing reporting services in the context of their full and partial implementation has been grounded. The peculiarities of interaction between internal specialists in enterprise taxation and external tax consultants during the operational and strategic exchange of knowledge in the outsourcing of services for the formation of transfer pricing reporting have been analyzed. The necessity of minimizing the opportunistic behavior of internal tax specialists when obtaining outsourcing services has been grounded. The main advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing services for the formation of reporting on transfer pricing of the enterprise have been analyzed. The main reasons for large enterprises to turn to outsource services in terms of reporting on transfer pricing have been disclosed.
This paper analyzes and describes multinational companies as a business internationalization strategy through foreign direct investments FDIs for business internationalization to reach business ...values in the frames of globalization. The analysis and results demonstrated that Multinational companies (MNCs) and foreign direct investments (FDIs) may face challenges and risks in new locations, economic and political instability, difficulties of infrastructure, distrust in the locations, locations, difficulties of balance in payment, challenging negotiations in business agreements and quality contracts, borders and transportation challenges, challenging in the market size. Multinational companies that go for foreign direct investment have an economic impact and can affect a country's economy in various ways, for example, in the balance of payments, in growth rates and in job creation. The effect of foreign direct investment by multinational companies can be negative or positive depending on certain factors. A multinational company’s pattern of internationalization represents different factors of possibilities, costs, risks and difficulties faced during its internationalization. In conclusion, Foreign direct investment (FDI) is an important step towards business internationalization and if the domestic company decides to go multinational towards FDI, it has to consider the factors of ownership, location and internalization to reach business internationalization as confirmed in Dunning’s framework and this analysis.
Promulguée le 27 mars 2017, la loi sur le devoir de vigilance est entrée immédiatement en vigueur, obligeant les entreprises concernées à élaborer un plan de vigilance et à le publier dès le ...printemps 2018 dans leur rapport annuel de gestion. L’article analyse cette phase d’élaboration des premiers plans de vigilance. Dans le sillage de la théorie de l’endogénéisation du droit de Lauren B. Edelman, nous interrogeons les mécanismes d’appropriation de la loi sur le devoir de vigilance et examinons jusqu’à quel point sa mise en œuvre procède d’un façonnement managérial des plans. Nous montrons ainsi que, pour élaborer leurs plans, les entreprises ont largement pris appui sur des instruments préexistants, qu’elles ont cherché à rationaliser. Cependant, cette managérialisation de la loi se fait aussi sous le regard critique des organisations militantes qui ont porté cette législation, et qui s’attachent à soutenir une contre-interprétation de ses implications.
Drawing on the relational view and absorptive capacity theoretical lens, we examine the relationship between relationship multiplexity, multiple resource acquisition and export performance of ...emerging-market (EM) firms participating in buyer-supplier relationships with developed-country multinational companies (DC MNCs). Based on a sample of 128 firms in aviation, furniture, steelworks, automobile, and electronic sectors, we find that relationship multiplexity is positively related to the capacity of EM firms participating in these inter-firm exchanges to acquire technological, marketing, and managerial resources from their DC MNC counterparts, with the most benefit occurring in the acquisition of technological and marketing resources. Furthermore, our study shows that as EM firms seek to enhance their export performance while supplying DC MNCs, it is their successful acquisition of technological and marketing resources, but not managerial resources, that are significantly associated with their superior export performance. Our study contributes to the extant literature by providing important insights into the specific sources of internationalization advantages and/or disadvantages for EM exporters by being suppliers to DC MNCs in multiplex relationships.
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Advertising of global business corporations is extensively investigated in various cultural settings for its modifying effect on host cultures, particularly promoting Western capitalist values. The ...same has raised concerns for Muslim societies where majority cultural values being derived from Islam are at loggerheads with Western values, a situation which may have ramifications for these societies. This study explored the very notion in Pakistan and investigated the depiction of culturally consistent as well as inconsistent values in global companies’ television commercials running in the country. The content of prime-time television ads by these companies from April 2017 to March 2018 (N=131) was analyzed for the use of advertising appeals, applying Hofstede’s dimensional model for national cultures and advertising appeals by Pollay (1983) with modifications to include regionally standardized appeals, in the perspective of distorted mirror theorizing by Pollay (1986). The descriptive and statistical analysis of content found majority value appeals used in these ads reflecting values contrary to the cultural tendencies of Pakistani society, including appeals for regional standardization. It also found significant association of major inconsistent appeals with commercials of products used by youth and women. Appeal family was found the most frequently used among culturally consistent appeals. Findings provided a unique way of extrapolating Pollay’s theorizing that mirror of advertising is distorted to the sellers’ interest.
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