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For several years now, it has been current practice in Denmark for the owner of a building to be given a set of operational instructions for the building upon its hand over. This is the background for the development of a building operation plan in the form of an operating manual, which not only contains instructions and operating budgets, but which also provides the basis for an exchange of experience and feedback which may be useful in the planning of new buildings. In other words, the manual contains an exhaustive list of relevant data in relation to the operation of a building. The article describes this operating manual and the background for its development.

This paper contributes to laying a foundation for a research agenda in international business (IB) on multinational enterprises (MNEs) and economic inequality, through an extensive literature review and development of a conceptual framework.

The author conduct a systematic review of studies on economic inequality in IB literature, complemented by a broader selective review of studies in general management, economics, political science, sociology and other disciplines.

The review confirms that economic inequality has received little attention in IB research. Most contributions are recent conceptual studies, while empirical studies are scarce. Studies in economics and other disciplines provide further insights on the effects of MNEs on inequality, although specific findings are somewhat mixed.

The author develop a simple framework outlining channels of effects from MNEs activities on different forms of inequality, discuss challenges and opportunities for IB in addressing this topic and identify some avenues for future IB research on economic inequality.

This paper is the first comprehensive review of literature in IB on economic inequality. It also presents relevant literature on MNEs and economic inequality from various other disciplines and outlines the contributions that the IB discipline can make to the study of this topic.