Abstract Research Summary The rise of emerging market lead firms (LFs) in global value chains (GVCs) challenges the prevailing view that only multinational corporations (MNCs) from advanced economies lead systems integration, design, and innovation activities.
Yuanyuan Wu, Paola Perez‐Aleman
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Spatial networks of China's specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative medical device firms based on parent-subsidiary contacts: implications for regional health policy. [PDF]
Hu F +5 more
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Knowledge sourcing, geopolitics, and FDI: An empirical analysis on the US green and digital sectors
Abstract Research Summary This paper examines how foreign direct investment (FDI) shapes firms' sourcing of knowledge in the digital and green domains under rising geopolitical frictions. We assemble a firm–country dyadic panel (2013–2020) linking US patent backward citations to firms' FDI, enriched with bilateral geopolitical distance and host‐country
Alberto Maria Radici
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Adverse commercial determinants of health in low- and middle-income countries: a public health challenge. [PDF]
Islam MM, De Lacy-Vawdon C, Gleeson D.
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Should multinationals care about development? Rethinking global strategy in an unequal world
Abstract Research Summary While multinational corporations (MNCs) can profoundly shape global development trajectories, global strategy research has largely treated development as peripheral to core strategic concerns. This Perspective paper examines the contested relationship between global strategy and development, arguing that MNCs are neither ...
Marcus M. Larsen +2 more
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Evaluation of Corporate Social Responsibility Practices in the Turkish Pharmaceutical Industry. [PDF]
Azak Sungur S +2 more
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Abstract Research Summary This article develops a conceptual framework for understanding multinational enterprise (MNE) resilience in the era of cascading crises. We define resilience as the MNE's capacity to absorb disruption, maintain or restore functioning, and reconfigure operations as conditions shift.
Gerard George, Chang Hoon Oh
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Can the establishment of free trade zones promote the internationalization of enterprises? - Evidence from micro-enterprise level. [PDF]
Zhang J, Wang H.
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Geopolitics and global strategy: Making money under anarchy
Abstract Research Summary Multinational firms conduct cross‐border trade and investment in a world of anarchy, where nation‐states must secure their survival in the absence of a world government. We develop a geopolitical‐economic order (GEO) framework to argue that the extent of geopolitical competition incentivizes states to create one of two types ...
Daniel J. Blake +2 more
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