<p >This volume in the <span style=""font-style:italic;"" >Academy of International Business Latin America Chapter</span> (AIB-LAT) series presents research findings and theoretical developments in international business, with special emphasis on innovation, geography and internationalization in Latin America. Contributions are based on the...</p>

The book deals with cases about the impact of, and interaction between, the different Latin American cultural, economic, legal, and political settings on activities, strategies, structures and decision-making processes of MNCs. The cases focus on business processes, settings and organizational...

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Series Editors' Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 The Changing Dynamics of International Business in Africa: Emerging Trends and Key Issues -- Part I Inward FDI to...

Cover -- Title -- Copyrights -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword: Upgrading Chinese Business Enterprise Globalization -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- 1 Scholarly Context of This Book -- The secondary literature on Chinese outbound investment and this book --...

Intro -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Part I. Introduction -- 1. Multinational corporations and local firms in emerging economies: An introduction / Eric Rugraff and Michael W. Hansen -- Part II. Studies of spillovers and linkages between multinational corporations and local firms -- 2. The...

The emergence of voluntary corporate codes of conduct since the early 1990s is both a manifestation of and a response to the process of globalization. They have been part of a more general shift away from state regulation of transnational corporations towards corporate self-regulation in the...

Russian multinationals are playing an increasingly important role in the world economy, particularly in some key sectors such as oil, gas and metallurgy. At the same time, Russian multinationals differ in many respects from multinationals from other countries in that they often receive special...

Human resource management (HRM) is the strategic and coherent approach to the management of an organization's employees. As the need for effective and top staff rises, Managing the Global Workforce provides the most up to date and topical information on accessing human resource management....

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. SETTING THE CONTEXT: Multinational Enterprises in a System of Nation-States -- A Rough Take-off for the Multinationals -- Calibrating the Multinationals' Importance -- Multinationals' Behavior in International Markets -- The Challenge: Accommodating...

Front Matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Contribution of R&D to U.S. Economic Development -- 3 Foreign Participation in Privately Funded U.S. R&D -- 4 Foreign Participation in Publicly Funded U.S. R&D -- 5 Findings and Recommendations -- References --...