South Korean and Taiwanese brands have long been household names. Today, however, the namesof transnational companies (TNCs) from an increasingly diverse set of emerging and developingeconomies are regularly making if not the dinner table conversation then at least the headlines of...

Over the last decade outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) flows and stocks from the emerging economies expanded dramatically. This aggregate trend is reflective of the fact that at the firm level technological capabilities and market share of many TNCs from the emerging economies (ETNCs)...

The key role MNEs play in the global economy through international investment, and the changing landscape of such investment as MNEs as well as host and home economies adjust to changing conditions and objectives, make it important to understand trends and developments with respect to FDI and...

This paper provides a comprehensive review of scholarly research on credit risk measurement during the last 57 years applying bibliometric citation analysis and elaborates an agenda for future research. The bibliography is compiled using the ISI Web of Science database and includes all articles...

We investigate the principal-principal (PP) conflicts between large blockholders in the context of cross-border acquisitions (CBAs). We focus on the conflicts between family blockholders and two groups of financial institutional investors – banks and mutual funds. We hypothesize that different...

Research Question/Issue: We study the relationship between family blockholding of voting rights and the relative size of international acquisitions, and the moderating effect of two types of financial blockholders (pressure-resistant and pressure-sensitive blockholders).Research...

In networked MNCs where knowledge and power are distributed, corporate strategy processes benefit from input arising from many different levels of the organization. Recently, the regional (i.e., supra-national) level has been emphasized as an important additional source of knowledge and input,...

Over the last decade a significant amount of interest and, subsequently, a large literature has arisen on the topic of foreign direct investment undertaken by emerging market (EM) multinationals (MNEs). This volume is among the latest contributions to this literature. As stated in the preface,...