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MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT

Series Editors: Xiaolan Fu, Pervenz N Ghauri, Juha Väätänen

Published:

• Volume 32

  Global Talent Management

  Pervez N Ghauri

• Volume 31

  Reintegrating Iran with the West: Challenges and Opportunities

  Mohammad Elahee, Farid Sadrieh &Mike Wilman

• Volume 30

  Evaluating Companies for Mergers and Acquisitions

  Ibne Hassan & Pervez N. Ghauri

• Volume 29

  Challenges for the Trade of Central and Southeast Europe

  Sanda Renko & Blazenka Knezevic

• Volume 28

  Business, Society and Politics: Multinationals in Emerging Markets

  Amjad Hadjikhani, Ulf Elg & Pervez Ghauri

• Volume 27

  The Role of Expatriates in MNCs Knowledge Mobilization

  Mariano, Mohamed & Mohiuddin

• Volume 26

  Product Market Integration: A Multifaceted Approach

  Guimarães & Faria

• Volume 25

  Use of science and technology in business: Exploring the impact of using activity for systems, organizations, and people

  Håkansson, Waluszewski, Prenkert & Baraldi

• Volume 24

  Markets and Compensation for Executives in Europe

  Oxelheim & Wihlborg

• Volume 23

  Corporate Governance and Firm Value

  Rashid & Islam

• Volume 22

  Do Multinationals Feed Local Development and Growth?

  Piscitello & Santangelo

• Volume 21

  Corporate Crisis and Risk Management

  Aba-Bulgu & Islam

• Volume 20

  Developments in Work and Organizational Psychology

  Jackson & Shams

• Volume 19

  Corporate and Institutional Transparency for Economic Growth in Europe

  Oxelheim

• Volume 18

  Managing Customer Relationships on the Internet

  Lindstrand, Johanson & Sharma

• Volume 17

  Non-Business Actors in a Business Network

  Hadjikhani & Thilenius

• Volume 16

  The Common Glue

  Morosini

• Volume 15

  Managing Networks in Transition Economies

  Johanson

• Volume 14

  European Union and the Race for Foreign Direct Investment in Europe

  Oxelheim & Ghauri

• Volume 13

  International Business Negotiations

  Ghauri & Usunier

• Volume 12

  Strategic Alliances in Eastern and Central Europe

  Hyder & Abraha

• Volume 11

  Intellectual Property and Doing Business in China

  Yang

• Co-operative Strategies and Alliances

  Contractor & Lorange

• Critical Perspectives on Internationalisation

  Havila, Forsgren & Håkansson

• Managing International Business Ventures in China

  Li

• Business Network Learning

  Hakansson & Johanson

• The Global Challenge for Multinational Enterprises

  Buckley & Ghauri

• Network Dynamics in International Marketing

  Naude & Turnbull

• Relationships and Networks in International Markets

  Gemünden, Ritter & Walter

• Managing Cultural Differences

  Morosini

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• Cross Cultural Management

• Chinese Management Studies

• Critical Perspectives on International Business

• Competitiveness Review: an International Business Journal

• European Business Review

• Euro Med Journal of Business

• International Journal of Commerce and Management

• International Journal of Emerging Markets

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT VOLUME 33

MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

EDITED BY

Professor Xiaolan Fu

Oxford University, UK

Professor Pervez N Ghauri

University of Birmingham, UK

Professor Juha Väätänen

Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland

United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China

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Contents

List of Contributors

About the Authors

Shaheen Akter received her Ph.D. in agricultural economics from London University and is presently working as an independent research consultant with the Technology and Management Centre for Development in the Oxford University’s Department of International Development. Her research covers a wide range of development topics. Her research interests include multinationals in development and knowledge transfer. She has worked in various capacities at the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh, the North South University, Bangladesh, the Papua New Guinea University of Technology, and the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute.

Leonardo Bremermann is professor of energy engineering at the Federal University of Santa Catarina–UFSC, Araranguá Center, and is the head of the Energy and Sustainability Department of the same center. His research activities are in the areas of planning and operation of electric power systems, considering renewable energy sources in the Power Systems Planning Laboratory – LabPlan in UFSC, applied to the reliability of power systems. He is a member of the Technological Nucleus of Electric Energy Research Group (NTEEL) and collaborates with INESC P&D Brazil – Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering, Research and Development of Brazil.

Mhamed-Ali El-Aroui is a Professor of statistics and econometrics at the Université de Carthage in Tunisia. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Université Joseph Fourier de Grenoble in France. His research topics include applied statistics, econometric modeling, data analysis, risk management, computational statistics, and simulation. He has published and refereed papers in several scientific journals, including Journal of Applied Statistics, Extremes, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Research Policy, International Journal of Emerging Markets, Computational Economics, and Developing Economies.

George Owusu Essegbey is the Director of the Science and Technology Policy Research Institute (STEPRI) of the Council of Science and Industrial Research (CSIR) of Ghana, in Accra. He was a member of the country’s National Development Planning Commission (NDPC). Currently, he is a member of the Ghana National Commission for UNESCO. He has several years of experience in Science and Technology (S&T) policy research, innovation studies, research on new technologies, climate change and sustainable agriculture. He holds a Ph.D. in Development Studies (University of Cape Coast) and M.A. in International Affairs (University of Ghana). He did Ph.D. internship at the United Nations University (Institute for New Technologies, now UNU-MERIT) in Maastricht, The Netherlands and a Commonwealth Fellowship at the Policy Research in Engineering, Science and Technology (PREST) of the University of Manchester. Dr. Essegbey has served various national and international organisations with his expertise including FAO, UNESCO, UNCTAD, UNEP, WIPO and the World Bank. He is currently a member of the 10-Member Expert Group supporting the United Nations Technology Facilitation Mechanism with the UN Inter-agency Task Team on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) for the SDGs.

Habib Hasan Farooqui is currently serving as an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Public Health – Delhi, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI). His areas of expertise include vaccinology and decision analytical modeling. In his current position, Dr. Farooqui is a member of various expert groups including, vaccinology at Vaccine Center, LSHTM, Task Force of the Indian Council of Medical Research, and various technical committees for the Government of India. He has successfully completed projects such as Situational Analysis of Rotavirus and Pneumococcal Vaccines in India funded by Gates Foundation, Inequalities in Immunization in India funded by Save the Children, Identification of Priority Policy Research Questions in Access to Medicines in India funded by WHO, Geneva, Procurement and Distribution of Medicines in India funded by the Norwegian government as well as Governance and Accountability in Medicine Supply in India funded by the Results for Development, Washington, DC.

Godfred Frempong is the chief research scientist of the Science and Technology Policy Research Institute (STEPRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Ghana. His research interest spans science, technology, and innovation, small and medium enterprise and ICT studies. He has written extensively on ICT reform, regulation and development, and application and usage of ICT by SMEs. Dr. Frempong holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Ghana and an M.Sc. degree in science policy from the University of Lund (Sweden). Dr. Frempong has also received post-qualification training from the University of Amsterdam, Wageningen University, and the Centre for Information Technologies at the Technical University of Denmark and PREST of Manchester University (as a Commonwealth Professional Fellow in 2006). He has been involved in policy research for the past 27 years and has acquired vast experience.

Xiaolan Fu is Founding Director of the Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD), Professor of Technology and International Development at Oxford University. She is appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to the Ten-Member High Level Advisory Group of the UN Technology Facilitation Mechanism and to the Governing Council of the UN’s Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries. She was President of the Chinese Economic Association (Europe) and CEA (UK) (2010-2011). Her recent books include China’s Path to Innovation, China’s Role in Global Economic Recovery, and The Rise of Technological Power in the South. Her papers appeared widely in leading international journals. She is recipient of the EURAM 2017 Innovation SIG ‘Best Paper Award’ and EFMD 2005 `European Best Paper Award’, is also a Senior Research Associate of the University of Cambridge and a Visiting Professor at Fudan University. She currently leads an ESRC/DFID funded project on The Diffusion of Innovation in Low Income Countries and an EC FP7 funded project on MNEs and Development.

Pervez Ghauri is a professor of international business and the editor in chief for International Business Review and the director of Ph.D. programs at Birmingham Business School. He is Fellow of AIB and EIBA and sits on the EIBA board. He has an extensive career as a professor in different universities such as Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, King’s College, among others, and he has published more than 30 books on international business and international marketing topics and numerous articles in journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, and so on. Moreover, he consults and offers training programs to a number of organizations such as BP, Airbus Industries, and Ericsson.

Suraksha Gupta is the Professor of Socially Responsible Marketing at Newcastle University London. She holds a PhD from Brunel University in UK, MBA from Institute of Management Technology in India and Bachelor of Commerce from University of Delhi, India. Research publications of Suraksha Gupta have appeared in highly reputed journals such as Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Research, Industrial Marketing Management, European Journal of Marketing, Technological Forecating and Social Change, Thunderbird International Business Review, Studies in Higher Education, Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal, International Studies in Management Education etc.

Iulduz Khairullina, M.Sc. (Tech) was a research assistant in a large international project MNEmerge (mnemerge.com) financed under the European FP7 program. Her previous experience includes qualitative research and working as a project manager in an IT company. She holds a bachelor’s degree in informatics and a master’s degree in industrial management. Her interests are focused on the internationalization, IT sphere, and e-commerce.

Praachi Kumar is a project associate at UNU-MERIT. She holds an M.Sc. degree in public policy and human development from Maastricht University and UNU-MERIT with specialization in social protection policy design and finance. Her previous experience includes working as a strategy and management consultant in the fields of international strategic communications and quantitative research where she helped develop strategies and narratives for key political parties, industry leaders, and blue chip organizations across the globe.

Aashna Mehta is a research associate at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI). Her research focuses on pharmaceutical economics and policy as well as healthcare financing. Specifically, she has been working on medicine pricing policies, procurement, and supply chain management practices, pharmaceutical market structure, intellectual property issues, and so on. She holds a bachelor’s degree in business economics and a master’s in economics with specialization in development and health economics. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning (CESP), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi.

Valerie Nattrodt Monteiro received a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina, Brazil, in September 2016. She has been working as a research intern for INESC P&D Brasil, Santos, Brazil, since 2014. Her areas of interest include renewable energies, microgeneration, and distributed power generation.

Rushva Parihar is currently a research associate and a Ph.D. scholar at the United Nations University-MERIT in Maastricht. His work focuses on the governance of technology and innovation for the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). His research interest covers both firm strategy and government policy for the SDGs. His special interests in SDG3 and SDG6 are further anchored by his engagements with copewithcancer.org and Friend In Need India, respectively.

Shyama V. Ramani is a professorial fellow at UNU-MERIT, United Nations University at Maastricht. She is currently studying the role of technology and innovation to attain the Sustainable Development Goals. She has published 40 articles in international peer-reviewed journals (including Social Science and Medicine, Research Policy, Nature Biotechnology, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Technovation, and Theory and Decision) and has authored 19 chapters in books. She has edited two book volumes on Nanotechnology in Developing Countries and Innovation in India. She has coordinated eight research contracts. After the tsunami of December 2004, she founded two nonprofit action-research units Association Un Ami and Friend in Need India, in France and India, respectively, that aim to improve sanitation coverage in rural India (www.friend-in-need.org).

Mauro Augusto da Rosa (S’05–M’11) received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1998 and 2003, respectively, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from FEUP, Porto, Portugal, in 2009. He has been a professor and senior researcher of electrical engineering with the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, Brazil, and with INESC P&D Brazil, Santos, São Paulo. His research interests include distributed artificial intelligence, intelligent agents, and power system reliability. Professor Rosa is currently the director of Science and Technology of INESC P&D Brazil.

Sakthivel Selvaraj was a Takemi Fellow (post-doctoral fellow at Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, United States) and a Fulbright Scholar during 2006–2007. He has a Ph.D. in health economics (1996–2001) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Dr. Sakthivel Selvaraj is a health economist who is currently engaged in teaching and research in the area of health care financing, pharmaceutical economics, and equity in healthcare financing and delivery in India. Earlier, he was engaged as a health economist in the National Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (NCMH), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, during 2004–2005. Sakthivel also served as a consultant to the National Commission on Enterprises in the Unorganized Sector in India and as a fellow at the Institute for Human Development (2005–2006). Prior to joining NCMH, he was engaged as a research associate in the Institute of Economic Growth (2002–2004).

Shankhajit Sen is pursuing M.Phil. degree in gender studies at Calcutta University and is a research associate at Friend in Need India. His previous work includes assisting academics in Calcutta University to study the health status of the children of sex workers. He has written about the systemic forces that trigger the emergence of naxal groups that call for a systemic rather than targeted group response and change.

Roman Teplov M.Sc. (Tech.) is a Ph.D. scholar at the Lappeenranta University of Technology. His dissertation explores various approaches to open innovation perceived in companies of different size. Roman holds a master’s degree in industrial management and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. He has industrial experience as an R&D specialist and has been involved as a project manager and researcher in several international research projects. He has been conducting research on innovation, social responsibility, ecosystems, and cross-cultural aspects. Roman has teaching experience in methodology and innovation courses. His research interests include technology and innovation management, entrepreneurship, open innovation, TRIZ, and advanced simulation systems.

Ajay Thutupalli is an affiliated researcher at UNU-MERIT. He received his Ph.D. in economics and policy studies of technical change in November 2015. He has an M.Sc. degree in economics (science and innovation) from Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Universitat Pompue Fabra & Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain. He holds an engineering degree in computer sciences from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India. His research interests lie in systemic changes, technological transitions, sustainability, and technological catch-up.

Eduardo Urias is research fellow at UNU-MERIT (Maastricht, Netherlands) and Lecturer at Vrij Universiteit (Amsterdam, Netherlands). He received his Ph.D. in economics and policy studies of technical change from UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University in October 2015. He has published in Social Science and Medicine and Qualitative Marketing Research. He is currently working on access to medicines, intellectual property rights, diffusion of biosimilar drugs and social license to operate in different sectors. He was also awarded a research grant from the CAPES Foundation under the aegis of the Ministry of Education of Brazil (Grant No. 1020-12-9). Eduardo has a bachelor’s degree in Economics from São Paulo State University and a master’s degree in Scientific and Technological Policy from Campinas State University in Brazil. He is one of the cofounders of Elabora Consultoria, in São Paulo, that provides studies and services to assess, design, and implement innovation-based competitive strategies and public policies to promote innovation.

Juha Väätänen is a professor of international business and the vice dean of School of Business and Management at Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT). His fields of expertise are international business, emerging economies, and enterprise competitiveness. He has published in such journals as the International Journal of Innovation Management, the Multinational Business Review, and Industrial Marketing Management. Prior to joining LUT, he worked in international finance and banking in the United Kingdom and Russia. He teaches courses focusing on international business, emerging economies, and international competitiveness. He has been a visiting scholar at ESADE Business School, Spain, and Rutgers Business School, United States.

Fatima Wang is a lecturer in marketing and international business at the School of Business. Her research lies in the fields of marketing strategy and international business. In particular, she studies service providers, market orientation, and sustainability/corporate social responsibility. She has published in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Sciences, Journal of Business Research, International Business Review, and Journal of Business Ethics.