Multinational Business Review: Volume 12 Issue 3

The Regional Nature of the World’s Banking Sector

Alan M. Rugman, Cecilia Brain

Of the forty banks included in the world’s largest 500 firms, none operate on a global basis. All but one are heavily dependent on their home region, with an average of 78.3…

The Relationship Between Inward Foreign Direct Investment and the Performance of Domestically‐owned Chinese Manufacturing Industry

Peter J. Buckley, Jeremy Clegg, Chengqi Wang

The improvement in performance of Chinese domestically owned industry in 1995 and 2001 is strongly linked to inward foreign direct investment. Rising foreign presence contributes…

Network Development and Firm Performance: A Field Study of Internationalizing Japanese Firms

Jane W. Lu, Paul W. Beamish

This paper explores the potential competitive advantages from the development of an internal network of subsidiaries and external network of alliances. Given the broad scope and…

An Emerging Structure of Corporations

Kiyohiko Ito, Elizabeth L. Rose

As companies grow and increase the number of products they have on offer, they generally change and adapt their organizational structures, in order to arrange their resources and…

At Home in the World in Any Century: A Jesuit Perspective on International Business

Rev. John W. Padberg

This article is the text of remarks delivered to students beginning their studies in the two‐year Executive Master of International Business program sponsored by the Boeing…