International Journal of Emerging Markets: Volume 9 Issue 1

Innovation in emerging markets – the case of China

George Yip, Bruce McKern

Multinational companies are increasingly locating R&D activities in emerging markets, particularly China. This paper aims to focus on why China is moving from imitation to…

Financial giants and moral pygmies?: Multinational corporations and human rights in emerging markets

Shaomin Li, Ajai Gaur

How should a multinational corporation (MNC) from a mature democracy deal with the human rights issues in a country with a poor human rights standard? The paper aims to discuss…

How much can we trust the financial report?: Earnings management in emerging economies

Shaomin Li, Seung Ho Park, Rosey Shuji Bao

The success and reliability of business transactions and research in emerging markets depend on the quality of financial information. Due to the institutional and historical…

Internationalisation of emerging market firms: an exploratory study of Chilean companies

Constanza Bianchi

This paper aims to explore how firms from a Latin American market internationalise using the resource-based view of the firm as a theoretical foundation. Specifically, it examines…

Business decision making, production technology and process efficiency

Rumki Majumdar

This paper aims to analyze the influence of business decision on process efficiency and production technology in the communication equipment and consumer electronics sectors of…

How should firms deal with counterfeiting?: A review of the success conditions of anti-counterfeiting strategies

Andreas Hoecht, Paul Trott

The production and sale of counterfeit products is big business in the international economy. Nowhere is this more evident than in China. This paper aims to review the…

Exploring the drivers and elements of subsidiary evolution in several new EU member states

Sergey Filippov, Geert Duysters

Management of subsidiaries of multinational companies and subsidiary evolution have emerged as important topics in the international business literature. This strand of literature…

Governance and enterprise restructuring: the case of Macedonia

Mico Apostolov

This paper is a case study of the Republic of Macedonia and focuses on the development of governance and enterprise restructuring. Thus, country's effective corporate governance…

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