Sökning: "Multinational enterprises MNEs"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden Multinational enterprises MNEs.

  1. 1. Essays on the Interplay between Multinational Enterprises and Spatial Economies

    Författare :Simon Falck; Hans Westlund; Folke Snickars; Henrik Blomgren; Lars Westin; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Multinational Enterprises; Foreign Direct Investment; Firm location; Spillovers; Regional Development Policy and Analysis; Spatial Distributions of Economic Activity; Functional regions; Sweden;

    Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis concerns the interplay between multinational enterprises (MNE) and spatial economies, with an orientation towards the location and spillover effects of inward foreign direct investments (FDI). The thesis consists of four essays that are self-contained studies. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Innovation and Evolution in the Multinational Enterprise

    Författare :Benjamin Ståhl; Mats Forsgren; Ulf Andersson; Udo Zander; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Business studies; multinational enterprises; innovation; subsidiary evolution; Företagsekonomi; Business studies; Företagsekonomi; Business Studies; företagsekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : For multinational enterprises (MNEs) that are active in dynamic industries with global scope, the ability to quickly leverage innovations across the whole organization is imperative. This thesis is concerned with how subsidiaries innovate, how these innovations are spread in the MNE and what the consequences are, for the MNE as a whole and for the innovating subsidiary. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Multinational Enterprises, Sociopolitical Constraints and Intermediaries : A Sociopolitically Informed Network Approach

    Författare :Randy Ziya Shoai; Tommy Jensen; Cecilia Pahlberg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; International Marketing; Multinationals; Intermediaries; Sociopolitical Constraints; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

    Sammanfattning : International Marketing research conceptualizes modern advanced markets into three rather separate systems; the political, the business, and the intermediary, based on the dichotomous notion of the distinct political, business, and intermediary systems constituting modern society. However international marketing literature seems to have adopted this conceptualization rather unproblematically for other types of markets. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Entrepreneurial Dynamics and Acquisitions of New Technology-Based Firms

    Författare :Jing Xiao; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Business groups; New technology-based firms NTBFs ; Acquisitions; Entrepreneurial dynamics; Acquisition effects; Survival; Firm growth; Business cycle; Multinational enterprises MNEs ; Longitudinal data; Discrete-time duration models; Competition risks models; Fixed effects model; Inverse-probability-of-treatment weights IPTW ; Sweden;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to explore the evolution of new technology-based firms (NTBFs) based on solid empirical material for the Swedish economy. NTBFs are argued to be one important type of entrepreneurial firms that contribute to technology change, knowledge spillovers, and economic growth. LÄS MER

  7. 5. (Investigating) MNCs' CSR-related behaviour and impacts in institutionally and culturally distant markets : African developing-countries in focus

    Författare :Gideon Jojo Amos; Gabriel Baffour Awuah; Ulf Aagerup; Niklas Egels-Zandén; Högskolan i Halmstad; []
    Nyckelord :SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; multinational enterprises MNEs ; corporate social responsibility CSR ; corporate social responsibility reporting CSRR ; African developing-countries; legitimacy; stakeholders; institutional theories; organizational learning;

    Sammanfattning : The overall purpose of this thesis is to explore why and how institutional distance and contextual differences influence MNCs’ CSR-related behavior in African developing-countries. In order to achieve the purpose stated above, the thesis seeks to answer the overarching research question: How do institutional distance and contextual differences influence MNCs’ CSR-related behavior in African developing countries? To answer the research question this thesis employed an interpretive methodological approach in order to increase my understanding of the CSR phenomenon in a specific contextual environment characterized by different institutional distance through different theoretical and empirical perspectives (Guba and Lincoln, 1994; Lincoln and Guba, 2000). LÄS MER