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Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade ordet multinationals.

  1. 6. The Modern Journey to the West : Exploring Key Factors Influencing Reverse Knowledge Transfer in Emerging-market Multinationals

    Författare :Lingshuang Kong; Francesco Ciabuschi; Ulf Holm; Grazia Santangelo; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Emerging-market multinational corporations; reverse knowledge transfer political relationships; expatriate managers; headquarters-subsidiary relationship.; Business Studies; Företagsekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : As latecomers to the world economy, emerging-market multinational corporations (EMNCs) often use international expansion as a ‘springboard’ for seeking and accessing advanced knowledge from overseas, particularly from advanced markets, with the goal of offsetting their competitive weaknesses and catching up with their Western counterparts. This behavior is conceptualized as the springboard perspective formulated by Luo and Tung (2007). LÄS MER

  3. 7. Contradicting Management Control Ideologies – A study of integration processes following cross-border acquisitions of large multinationals

    Författare :Peter Beusch; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Management control; mergers and acquisitions; cross-border; ideology; rhetoric; coercive power;

    Sammanfattning : The 1990s and early 2000s witnessed some of the largest cross-border acquisitions in business history. This thesis studies how key management control actors experienced the integration processes following two cross-border acquisitions. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Essays on restructuring and production decisions in multi-plant firms

    Författare :Katarina Hakkala; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four self-contained essays. The common theme of the essays is the behavior of multi-plant firms. LÄS MER

  5. 9. The implications of trade and offshoring for growth and wages

    Författare :Chazarreta Migueles; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : In their pursuit of profits, adventure and new markets, humans have traded since prehistoric times. The relations between trade, profits and technological change, how- ever, were not the main concern of early economists ranging from Aristotle to the mercantilists. LÄS MER

  7. 10. A Political View on the Internationalization Process

    Författare :Francisco Figueira de Lemos; Amjad Hadjikhani; Mats Forsgren; Mohamed Yamin; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Internationalization Process; Uppsala Model; Transaction Cost Economics; Institutional theory; Firm; Multinational; Government;

    Sammanfattning : The role of governments in the internationalization of the firm had early recognition in prominent seminal studies in international business, such as Hymer’s thesis or the Uppsala Model, though the interaction between multinationals and governments has attracted scarce attention. As such, the main stream of economics and management studies have focused on internationalization essentially as an issue of the firm, wherein the multinationals’ interaction with the environment is limited to a business-industrial scope of suppliers, clients, and competitors. LÄS MER