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Foreign Direct Investment In Global Cities And Co-Ethnic Clusters: Characteristics, Performance, And Survival, Dwarka Chakravarty
Foreign Direct Investment In Global Cities And Co-Ethnic Clusters: Characteristics, Performance, And Survival, Dwarka Chakravarty
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This dissertation examines the characteristics, profitability, and survival of multinational enterprise (MNE) foreign direct investment (FDI) in North American “global” cities (GCs), such as Los Angeles, New York, and Toronto. Across GCs and their metropolitan areas (Metros), MNEs often co-locate with their home country and co-industry peers in “co-ethnic” and “co-ethnic, co-industry” (CECI) clusters. Despite their substantial influence on the world economy GCs are relatively underexplored as location units of analysis in International Business (IB) research. Accordingly, I address three research questions. First, how do subsidiary and MNE characteristics differ between GCs, Metros, and other locations? Second, how does subsidiary …
Mne Ownership, Subsidiary Performance, And Economic Liberalization, Min Zhang
Mne Ownership, Subsidiary Performance, And Economic Liberalization, Min Zhang
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A foreign subsidiary’s performance depends on its ability to manage the institutional context of its resource decisions. In response to the evolving institutional contexts facilitated by economic liberalization, MNEs have dramatically increased their ownership levels in their FDIs in some emerging economies. Nevertheless, the international business field has yet to sufficiently understand the consequent performance of those FDIs with increasingly higher MNE ownership levels. To address this gap, this dissertation is guided by three research questions. First, how does economic liberalization influence an MNE’s ownership choice in an emerging economy? Second, how does economic liberalization change the relationship between an …
Employment Of Returnees And The Performance Of Multinational Subsidairies In China, Huanglin Wang
Employment Of Returnees And The Performance Of Multinational Subsidairies In China, Huanglin Wang
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Returnees, those who went overseas for higher education and then returned to their home countries, represent a unique group of employees for multinational enterprises (MNEs). However, they have been ignored in the MNE staffing literature which has developed a staffing typology based on nationality, specifically parent country nationals (PCNs), host country nationals (HCNs), and third country nationals (TCNs). We propose that cultural understanding is a more appropriate criterion than nationality in categorizing staff in MNEs and compare returnees with the existing categorizations of MNE staff. Returnees may be closer to the ‘balanced individuals’ that MNEs need compared with either expatriates …