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The Role Of Home Country Political Resources For Brazilian Multinational Companies, Karina Regina Vieira Bazuch, Suelen Alice Da Silva Zacharias, Laurent Wiliam Broering, Maria Fernanda Arreola, Rodrigo Bandeira De Mello

Strategy and Operations Faculty Publications

This paper aims to analyze the interactions between home country governments and Developing Country Multinational Companies (DMNCs). Drawing on evidence from the Brazilian political environment and Brazilian multinationals we investigate the mechanisms governments use to influence the internationalization process of domestic companies and firms’ political strategic responses to shape the political institutional environment in which they operate. We argue that foreign direct investment (FDI) outflows from developing economies need to be explored given specific country level contextual factors, such as high levels of government involvement. Our main findings support this idea and indicate that home country governments use a series …