What is the role of international business in this dilemma? How and why do international corporations maximize value beyond core strategy and partners through corporate responsibility? This informative and accessible resource expands the readers’ understanding of the ways in which profit...

This firm-specific analysis of foreign direct investment in the United States is guided by linking the resource-based view of the firm with control variables from international business theory. Specifically, we develop a multivariate regression model based on firm-specific resources that help...

This paper describes the process of institutionalization and legitimization in countries in Latin America and its impact on organizational decision-making regarding inward foreign direct investment (FDI). It argues that institutionalization is a process that works through all three...

This study used discriminant function analysis on a sample of 240 non-US firms to determine if they could be correctly classified as direct investors or non-investors in the United States for each year during the five year period 1984-1988. Results were robust, correctly classifying 72.81% of...

The use of important historic events, coupled with an easily recognized media dramatization of that event, can provide a compelling tool for explaining economics principles. In this paper, such a mechanism is developed by analyzing events from the Holocaust, as portrayed in the Oscar-winning...

Queries whether developing countries really benefit in terms of technology by attracting multinational enterprises through tax advantages and other benefits. Finds, in the case of Argentina, that a significant technology spillover does not occur automatically, but would require domestic...