In the past, environmental management mainly focussed on the identification of ecologically oriented requirements made on enterprises by relevant stakeholders, on the developmentof related corporate strategies and also on the introduction of a corporate system of environmental management....

Outward FDI of firms from Brazil, Russia, India, and China has increasedsignificantly in the last years. Despite this trend comprehensive research on thespecific motives and antecedents of outward FDI from BRIC countries is stillunderrepresented. Case studies of eight companies were conducted...

... The purpose of this article is to examine the extent to which German MNCs are characterized by such transnational forms of configuration and coordination, how these two instruments are linked together, and how their application is influenced by situational conditions ...