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Sensitivity Improvement to Active Piezoresistive AFM Probes Using Focused Ion Beam Processing

Sensors, 2019
This paper presents a comprehensive modeling and experimental verification of active piezoresistive atomic force microscopy (AFM) cantilevers, which are the technology enabling high-resolution and high-speed surface measurements. The mechanical structure
Piotr Kunicki, Tihomir Angelov, Tzvetan Ivanov, Teodor Gotszalk, Ivo Rangelow   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental Legitimation in A Global Context: Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises Versus Developed Market Multinational Enterprises

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to study the differences and similarities between emerging market multinationals (EMNEs) and developed market multinationals (DMNEs) in their levels of adoption of environmental management policies and environmental disclosure practices when they increase their international diversification.
Nuria Esther Hurtado‐Torres, Eulogio Cordón‐Pozo, Efrén Gómez‐Bolaños, Maria Ruiz‐Castillo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trust and expatriation: An integrative review of the literature and a research agenda

European Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Multinational enterprises need high‐status expatriates to enhance their workforce and improve coordination and control. Such employees face personal and socio‐political challenges that require the creation and sustenance of multipartite mutual trust between organisations and their expatriates, as well as host country nationals.
Maranda Ridgway, Nadia Kougiannou, Abraham Stefanidis, Chris Brewster   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic organisational improvising: Designing flexibility through planned incompleteness

European Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Traditional perspectives on strategic planning are often grounded in relatively static, overly detailed assumptions and frameworks about futures. Strategic organisational improvising is a critical process for organisations charting a way through complex, rapidly changing environments.
António Cunha Meneses Abrantes, Miguel Pina e Cunha, Stewart Clegg   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Great Powers Struggle: How Geopolitical Alignments of Small States Are Influenced by Their MNEs

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Comparing two distinct deglobalization periods, this study shows how Finnish multinational enterprises (MNEs) used corporate diplomatic activities (CDA) to influence Finland's alignment with a struggling great power. Drawing from hegemonic stability theory and new institutional economics, we argue that the power's collapsing global networks ...
Saara Matala, Christian Stutz
wiley   +1 more source

Tariffs, Geopolitical Risks, and Location Choices of Multinational Enterprises

Systems
The recent rise in anti-globalization sentiment has renewed interest in how tariffs influence the location decisions of multinational enterprises (MNEs).
Zijing Guo, Yutian Liang, Ruilin Yang
doaj   +1 more source

The role of multinational enterprises for regional development in Bulgaria [PDF]

Eastern Journal of European Studies, 2010
This paper offers a comprehensive and balanced assessment of the spatial distribution and significance of MNEs activities for the development of regions in Bulgaria.
Kaloyan KOLEV
doaj  

Keep on Keepin’ on Down Under: Administrative Heritage and the Strategic Realignment of Multinational Enterprises in Australia During Deglobalization, 1914–79

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract We analyse the behaviour of multinational enterprises (MNEs) within a host nation – Australia – during deglobalization (1914–79). Deglobalization is often portrayed as a drastic event to which MNEs respond swiftly, probably through withdrawal from host countries.
Pierre Van der Eng, André Sammartino, Simon Ville, David Merrett, Monica Keneley   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trade Wars, International Supply Chains, and Business Associations: Historical Evidence from Norway and Portugal

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the 1921–1923 trade war between Norway and Portugal as a historical case for exploring business responses to deglobalization and trade disruption. Focusing on the international supply chains (ISCs) of port wine and salted and dried cod, it investigates how business actors contributed to the recoupling of ISCs after a ...
Rolv Petter Amdam, Teresa da Silva Lopes, Trudi Henrydotter Eikrem, Maria Eugenia Mata   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Do SMEs Respond to Deglobalization? Insights from Italian SMEs in the Interwar Period (1936–1943)

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates how small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) respond to deglobalization and economic nationalism, using historical evidence from fascist Italy, a period of autarky and restricted international trade. While prior research has focused primarily on larger firms, especially multinational enterprises (MNEs), the strategic ...
Valeria Giacomin, Francesco Romagnoli
wiley   +1 more source