This Perspective explains the factors behind the sudden shift toward China and India for MNE R&D centers and explores how the financial crisis will affect China's and India's ability to continue to capture the R&D market.

The growth of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from developing countries and of a new generation of "emerging multinational enterprises" (EMNEs) has stimulated a flurry of publications. EMNEs have been portrayed as on their way to adulthood, latecomers that leapfrog into advanced...

This primer is intended to serve as a background text for a 'platform chapter' in Bachelor or Master level courses on Strategic Management. While the 'traditional firm' can be described as a value-adding chain (Pipeline), platform businesses 'invert' production and consumption to the outside and...

In the mid 1990s India's Tata Motors Ltd. entered the passenger car business after having prospered for more than 40 years as a manufacturer of commercial vehicles. Based on archival data and on expert interviews the paper analyses the resource acquisition and internationalisation strategies and...

In the face of a changing competitive business landscape, many German Mittelstand companies need to shift gears for their business in Asia and become a true insider by building local manufacturing and RD operations and creating a second home base in the region. Extending their presence in Asia...

In late 2008, as financial markets were crashing, the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment launched the Columbia FDI Perspectives. The first Perspective, entitled “The FDI recession has begun,” correctly forecast an FDI recession in the following year. From that first...

This is the 100th issue of the IMB Working Papers. It contains three short papers on the series itself. The first paper takes stock of the history, content and relevance of the IMB Working Paper Series. It analyses the first 100 issues of the series in detail (Dörrenbächer in this volume, pp....