Management Decision: Volume 59 Issue 1

The survival of the fittest in the global markets: multinational corporation challenge, evolution and decline

Byung Il Park, Jeoung Yul Lee

The purpose of this perspective paper is to answer the question of why some multinational corporations (MNCs) do not evolve and fail to avoid retrogression by natural selection in…

An organismic approach to multinational enterprise failure

Jeong-Yang Park, Yong Kyu Lew, Byung Il Park

The purpose of this paper is to answer why some multinational enterprises (MNEs) fail within the international business (IB) domain.

The effect of foreign firms’ population density on exit likelihood in a host country

Yuping Zeng, Dean Xu

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between a foreign firm’s likelihood to exit a host country and the population density of foreign firms in its industry in…

Climate risk and private participation projects in infrastructure: Mitigating the impact of locational (dis)advantages

Nathaniel C. Lupton, Alfredo Jiménez, Secil Bayraktar, Dimitrios Tsagdis

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of climate risk on the success vs failure of foreign direct investments (FDIs) in private participation infrastructure (PPI…

Unraveling the underlying mechanisms of new product development in high-technology emerging-market multinationals

Shufeng (Simon) Xiao, Kum-Sik Oh

Although extant research has provided vast knowledge on the determinants of new product development (NPD) success, prior work is generally bounded to the framework of developed…

Vulnerability of multinational corporation knowledge network facing resource loss: A super-network perspective

Jiafu Su, Qun Bai, Stavros Sindakis, Xuefeng Zhang, Tao Yang

The vulnerability of multinational corporation (MNC) knowledge network is one of the major causes for the failure and even the death of MNCs in the fierce global market…

The contingent effect of political ties on post-entry performance: A three-way interaction of political ties, entry mode, and industry restriction

Jieqiong Ma, Jie Yang, Ying Song

Political ties are critical for multinational enterprises’ (MNE) survival and success. However, the effect of political ties is not monotonic. The purpose of this paper is to look…

Evolution and decline of MNCs from a leadership-quality perspective- MNCs from the Brazilian market

Cherine Jneid

The purpose of this paper is to provide guidelines to IHRM by providing a set of personal and psychological competencies that are relevant to the development of global mindsets in…

Globalized service providers’ perspective for facility management outsourcing relationships: Artificial neural networks

Ka Leung Lok, Albert So, Alex Opoku, Haiyu Song

The Contingency Outsourcing Relationship (CORE) model originated from the Four Outsourcing Relationship Types (FORT) model and the CORE model is used in the globalized facility…