Multinational Business Review: Volume 25 Issue 4

Multinational enterprises, risk management, and the business and economics of peace

Jennifer Oetzel, Jason Miklian

The purpose of this paper is to reconceptualize how managers of multinational enterprises (MNEs) manage risk, particularly in fragile and/or conflict-affected areas of operation…

The halo effect: violent crime and foreign direct investment

Miguel A. Ramos, Nathan J. Ashby

The purpose of this paper is to develop and test theory regarding a geographic halo effect, whereby foreign investors draw overly broad impressions about a country based on high…

Strategic motives, institutional environments, and firm’s FDI ownership

Yigang Pan

The study conceptualizes how firms’ strategic motives interact with the heterogeneity of host country institutional environments in determining the subsidiary ownership. The…

Host-country characteristics, corporate sustainability, and the mediating effect of improved knowledge: A study among foreign MNCs in Malaysia

Syed Ali Fazal, Abdullah Al Mamun, Sazali Abdul Wahab, Muhammad Mohiuddin

Under the premise of resource-based view (RBV), this study aims to examine the influence of host-country characteristics (i.e. market environment, cultural factors, government…

Intellectual property rights protection and technological innovation: The moderating effect of internationalization

Se Ho Cho, Hyun Gon Kim

The purpose of this paper is to assess the role of firms’ internationalization on the relationship between intellectual property right (IPR) protection and their technological…