Testing the Link Between Multinationality and the Return on Foreign Assets
Abstract
A large and robust empirical literature demonstrates that there is a strong relationship between the performance of a multinational enterprise (MNE) and its degree of multinationality. We develop a new metric to capture the return on foreign assets (ROFA), which we use as an alternative metric to return on total assets (ROTA) as a dependent variable representing performance. We find a significant S‐shaped relation between ROFA and the degree of multinationality across a large set of UK firms.
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Citation
Kudina, A., Rugman, A.M. and Yip, G.S. (2009), "Testing the Link Between Multinationality and the Return on Foreign Assets", Multinational Business Review, Vol. 17 No. 3, pp. 123-142. https://doi.org/10.1108/1525383X200900020
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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