Changing the behaviour of firms to take environmental concerns into account is seen as unlikely without effective regulations. However, corporations are increasingly keen to represent themselves as ‘green’, including those in the world’s largest manufacturing sector: the car industry....

This chapter reviews the literature providing empirical estimates on the tax elasticity of multinational profits and discusses the challenges faced when attempting to quantify tax-motivated profit shifting. We first use micro-level data to show that multinational corporations hold a...

This study aims to examine the effect of exchange rate fluctuations and credit supply on the dividend repatriation policy of foreign subsidiaries of U.S. multinational corporations (MNCs) around the world. The difference generalised method of moments (GMM) estimator was applied to estimate the...

The paper reports a study of the post-acquisition integration process in three foreign acquisitions made by Swedish multinationals. Detailed interview data and questionnaire responses in both acquiring and acquired firms are presented. The sub-processes of task integration and human integration...

Internationale Investitionsverträge – Bestandsaufnahme und Reformansätze (Kurzzusammenfassung der Dissertation, Michael Efler, 28.5.2005)Die beiden zentralen und eng miteinander verbundenen Fragestellungen dieser Arbeit sind, ob ein internationaler Investitionsvertrag abgeschlossen werden...

As multinational corporations (MNCs) are extending their international operations they need to examine issues such as the localisation of human resource policies and management, and the effective use of local and expatriate managers. Examination of expatriate studies indicates a lack of...

This dissertation explores the concept of globalization as a new world era, andexamines changes in the patterns of global FDI flows, with a focus on Extractive FDIinflows to Third-World or developing countries. It looks at the increased presence ofmultinational corporations (MNCs) in the...

This dissertation explores the concept of globalization as a new world era, andexamines changes in the patterns of global FDI flows, with a focus on Extractive FDIinflows to Third-World or developing countries. It looks at the increased presence ofmultinational corporations (MNCs) in the...

Based upon the textual analysis of over 2000 Chinese and English web pages, as well as on the author's ethnographic observations with three Chinese multinational corporations, six operational strategies and three communication challenges on the Chinese companies' global outreach and expansion...

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...