Multinational Business Review: Volume 32 Issue 1

Is there a relationship between environmental performance and outward FDI? A study of Chinese MNEs

Jintao Zhang, Stephen Chen, Hao Tan

This paper aims to examine the question, “How do firm-level, home-country and host-country environmental performance (EP) affect the outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) of…

Predictive value of supply chain sustainability initiatives for ESG performance: a study of large multinationals

Arindam Das

Although the integration of sustainability into business strategies and operations has received considerable scholarly attention, little is known about how sustainability…

State ownership, managerial myopia and corporate green transition: evidence from listed companies in China

Qi-an Chen, Anze Bao

Green transition is a long-term direction of corporate development that can achieve sustainable corporate development. This study aims to investigate whether state ownership…

Multinationals’ value chain configuration for product diversification in emerging markets: Western firms in China

Sarah Franz, Axele Giroud, Inge Ivarsson

This study aims to analyse how multinational corporations (MNCs) organise value chain activities to penetrate new market segments. It contributes by expanding traditional…

Propagating a permanent war economy? U.S. FDI in warring host countries

Li Dai, Yongsun Paik

Conventional wisdom suggests that war in the host country makes it unattractive for foreign firms to invest. To see if this is true for US firms on the aggregate, this paper aims…

Connecting managers’ international work experience, advice networks, and subsidiary-unit performance: a social capital perspective

Taehyung Kim, Chul Chung, Chris Brewster, Sang-Hyeak Yoon

This study aims to examine whether and why subsidiary-unit managers’ prior international work experiences across multinational enterprises’ (MNEs) home and host countries impact…

The ambiguity and limitations of measuring firm-level multinationality: a theoretical and empirical exploration

Patrik Vaněk

This paper aims to explore the ambiguity and limitations of measuring firm-level multinationality (FLM) using theoretical and empirical comparisons of existing methods. The paper…