The multinational enterprise in developing countries : local versus global logic / / edited by Rick Molz, Catalin Ratiu, and Ali Taleb

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.8/8191724
• Soggetto topico: International business enterprises - Developing countries; Industrial policy - Developing countries
• Altri autori: MolzRick RatiuCatalin TalebAli
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Local-global view of multinationals in developing countries; 1 Organizational and institutional rationalities and Western firms in emerging countries: Proposal for a local/global analytical model; 2 Strategy implementation in emerging countries: Three theoretical approaches; Part II: Theoretical considerations; 3 West meets Southeast: A cultural fit of goal setting theory to the Filipino workforce; 4 Emergent global institutional logic in the multinational corporation ; 5 Political strategies of multinational enterprises in emerging economies: A theoretical model6 Business groups and corporate governance in emerging markets; Part III: Empirical perspectives; 7 Entrepreneurship, firm size and knowledge transfer to developing and emerging countries; 8 A comparison of foreign acquisitions in the Brazilian electricity industry: What determines success?; 9 The behavior of multinational enterprises in developing countries: Having a sense of the "good" through "smart partnerships" in Malaysia ; 10 Environment, strategy and leadership patterns as determinants of firm performance: The case of a developing countryPart IV: Emerging global roles of local firms; 11 Multinationals and corporate environmental strategies: Fostering subsidiary initiative; 12 Emerging multinationals from developing countries: Would their exposure to eclectic institutional conditions grant them unique comparative advantages?; 13 Conclusion: The challenges of developing competitive advantage from local and differential logics; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A key distinctive feature of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) as organizations resides in the fact that they span across borders. This exposes them to dissimilar and often unfamiliar social and economic conditions as they venture in foreign countries. MNEs from industrialized economies that are active in developing countries and emerging markets face particularly challenging hurdles due to both economic and institutional discrepancies between their home and host countries.This book focuses on the uneasy interaction between the traditional logics of developing countries and the
• Titolo autorizzato: The multinational enterprise in developing countries
• ISBN: 9786612732768; 9781136938597; 1136938591; 9781136938603; 1136938605; 9781282732766; 1282732765; 9780203847053; 0203847059
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910975189803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in development economics ;v. 80.