This article deals with the analysis of the positive side of the foreign direct investments in the World´s economy. The importance of this research is derived from the significant role that can be played by foreign investments in industrialized and developing countries. Some countries are still...

As one of the largest emerging markets, China's enormous population and economic boom have recently attracted many multinational companies (MNCs). In the past two decades, the Chinese government has reformed the economy, installed market forces, and opened various industries to foreign...

This research investigates patterns in the organization of innovation in subsidiaries and the role of innovation projects in integrating knowledge between the multinational companies and technological partners in the host innovation system. The analysis describes and compares different...

This chapter analyses the Multinationals corporations in Mexico, particularly theirlinkages with small and medium enterprises. Mexico has been an important magnet offoreign direct investment (FDI), particularly during the last forty years of the lastcentury. The FDI has played a very important...

Governments in developing (and developed) countries spend large sums to attract foreigncompanies (e.g. $300,000 per job created in Brazil). But there is only one welfarejustification for subsidizing MNCs: that they generate spillover effects. Yet, most of theempirical literature has not...

Despite the fact that multinational companies (MNCs) in Central Eastern Europe significantly contribute to employment growth in the region, qualitative knowledge about diffusion of employment practices in this region, and about coordination of MNCs with local labour market actors and...

This research examines information systems strategic planning (ISSP) in multinationals from the perspective of the subsidiaries. The research was carried out through interviews with the IT and business managers in subsidiaries of nine large American, European, and Japanese multinationals. The...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature and contents of Islamic management practices and their consequent implications for human resource management (HRM) in Arab countries. In addition, it aims to examine the implications for multinational companies (MNCs) operating in...

Purpose - Skill shortages worldwide have intensified the need for talent management. Few papers examine the pattern of human resource (HR) and talent management practices that help retain competent employees among service multinational companies (MNCs) in Asia. The purpose of this paper is to...

High employee turnover rates among multinational companies (MNCs) in Asia have become an organisational issue, which cannot be sufficiently addressed at the individual level. In this paper, we examine the issue of employee turnover at the organisational level. A group of organisational variables...