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International Business Enterprise before 1945: Evolution of the Global Cigarette Market. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This paper examines the international growth and development of the British-American Tobacco Co. from 1900 to 1945. As one of the first cases of a market-driven multinational corporation, the paper is able to highlight both the international development ...
Cox, Howard
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Corporate totalitarianism: an analysis of Bata system in Brazil and Chile (1940-1970)

open access: yesRevista Mundos do Trabalho, 2020
During the 1930s, the Czech company Bata Shoes Corporation became a well-established multinational organization. It figured amidst the largest shoes producers in the world, being a pioneer in carrying out economic, organizational and social ...
Vinícius de Rezende
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Corporate Initiatives: A Second Human Rights Revolution? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
This Essay examines the role of multinational corporations in protecting human rights around the globe. Part I analyzes the conduct of corporations, describes examples of corporations\u27 involvement in human rights violations, and discusses the merits ...
Cassel, Douglass
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Researching the multinational corporation: contributions of critical realist ethnography [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the contributions that critical realist ethnographies can make to an understanding of the multinational corporation.
Sharpe, Diana
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Dynamic capabilities in the upstream oil and gas sector: Managing next generation competition

open access: yesEnergy Strategy Reviews, 2014
The Dynamic Capabilities Framework, originally developed to enhance understanding of strategic agility in high-tech firms operating in high-velocity markets, is shown to be relevant for the Upstream Oil and Gas sector, in the context of five industry ...
Amy Shuen   +2 more
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Contribution of language to the creation of corporate social capital

open access: yesRevista Internacional de Organizaciones, 2019
With increased globalization of trade and business in a knowledge-based economy, and increasing diversification of the workforce, there is increasing pressure on multinational companies to report, and even measure, their social capital.
Krishna S. Dhir
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Book review: The multinational corporation in Africa: The international capitalist system [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Draft of book review: Carl Wisstrand, ed., The Multinational Corporation in Africa: The International Capitalist System (Sweden: Uppsala Offset Center AB, Uppsala, 1975)
Seidman, Ann
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Institutions and Outward Foreign Direct Investment2

open access: yesInternational Journal of Management and Economics, 2015
This paper explores the influence of the quality of a host country’s institutional environment on outflows from that country of foreign direct investment.
Klimek Artur
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Corporate liability for environmental harm [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Book synopsis; This wide-ranging and comprehensive Handbook examines recent developments in international environmental law (IEL) and the crossover effects of this expansion on other areas of public law, such as trade law and law of the sea.
Perry-Kessaris, Amanda
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Intercultural communication competence and job burnout in MNC employees: the mediation role of job stress

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
This study examined the relationship between intercultural communication competence (ICC) and job burnout, as well as the mediating effects of job stress, using data collected from employees (n = 1,064) from a Chinese multinational corporation in Brunei.
Xiaoxia Xie, Yulu Tu, Chienchung Huang
doaj   +1 more source

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