Emerging market multinationals’ role in facilitating developed country multinationals’ regional expansion: A critical review of the literature and Turkish MNC examples

The recent expansion of emerging market multinationals into world markets has generated a rich literature. While this literature has addressed the potential motivations, behaviors, and strategic implications of these firms’ moves abroad, their possible role as facilitating agents in regional expansion has not been adequately explored. In this paper, we explore this question through a critical review of the literature and examples from Turkish multinationals. We also offer questions for future research.     

Managing MNC-Government Negotiations in Saudi Arabia: The Key Role of Elites

This article explores the relationships between multinational corporations (MNCs) and a host country, in this case Saudi Arabia (the Kingdom). The interests of Saudi businesses and the political elite, along with the evolution of their relationship are surveyed. Furthermore, the validity of traditional and two-tier models of bargaining between MNCs and developing countries are assessed in the context of the Kingdom. It is argued that while both models may be useful, the two fail to capture the nature of MNCs-Saudi Arabia bargaining process. These two models are revised and enriched to adequately reflect the Kingdom's specific advantage, the nature of its national firms, and the unique relations it has with MNCs and their home countries. The study concludes that under current global political and economic conditions, the elite and MNCs interests appear to converge around business objectives.     

我国企业发展战略联盟的动因

20世纪90年代以来,世界上最重要和最有影响力的跨国公司把发展企业联盟战略作为其生存与发展、提高国际竞争力的重要手段之一。面对加入世贸组织后的挑战,我国企业在跨国公司主导的经济全球化的浪潮中,如何参与和发展企业战略联盟,提高国际竞争力,使我国企业经营管理与国际管理惯例接轨,并按国际通行管理游戏规则办事至关重要。     

我国石油技术服务企业国际竞争力培育策略研究

依据波特"钻石体系"对产业竞争力关键因素的描述,结合石油技术服务产业的特殊性,总结了石油技术服务产业的竞争力特征,并基于此构建了石油技术服务企业国际竞争力要素模型。在对国内外石油技术服务企业综合实力主要指标对比研究的基础上,提出了现阶段培育国内石油技术服务企业国际竞争力的战略方向和策略选择。     

Subsidiary goals,learning orientations,and ownership strategies of multinational enterprises: evidence from foreign direct investments in Korea

This paper investigates the links among subsidiary goals, learning orientations, and ownership strategies of multinational enterprises (MNEs). The authors hypothesize that an MNE's ownership strategy is determined by subsidiary goals and learning orientations. Furthermore, interactions between learning orientations and subsidiary goals are predicted to influence the ownership strategy. Based on 723 foreign subsidiaries of MNEs operating in Korea, our findings suggest that when MNE foreign subsidiaries influence ownership choice, market-seeking goals and resource-seeking goals have a stronger fit with the exploitation orientation than with the exploration orientation. In contrast, the category of knowledge-seeking goals has a stronger fit with exploration than with exploitation.     

跨国公司在中国的研发活动

近年来,跨国公司加强了在中国的研发投资。跨国公司在华研发活动的增长性、集中性、合作性、控制性,促进了我国高科技产业的发展,增加了“技术溢出”效应,搭建了人才培养的平台,在此基础上,应从政策方面支持跨国公司在华的研发活动,引导我国企业采取科学的管理理念和模式,推动企业国际化的步伐,加强我国企业自身研发能力建设。     

The role of business support organisations in the process of retailer internationalisation

In the field of international retail research, there has been little attention paid to the role of business support organisations in the process of internationalisation. Given the barriers to foreign market expansion, the focus of this study is to investigate the importance of facilitating factors, in the form of business support organisations, which can assist retailers in the process of international expansion. A qualitative research methodology was employed and the findings provide evidence relating to three important areas: firstly, the types of business support programmes available to retailers seeking to internationalise from the UK, secondly, the barriers encountered by retail companies expanding overseas, and thirdly, how government and private organisations can assist in helping retailers overcome these hurdles.     

跨国公司贸易对国际收支的影响

与国际收支概念产生时期的世界贸易环境相比较,目前的世界贸易环境已经发生了天翻地覆的变化,跨国公司贸易对“经济体”国际收支产生着重要影响,这种影响不仅体现在国际收支项目上,而且使按原产地规则统计的国际收支的意义发生了很大变异。     

Emerging economies and institutional quality: Assessing the differential effects of institutional distances on ownership strategy

The current study contributes to the institution-based view of internationalization that is contingent upon the home country development. We examine the differential effects of formal and informal institutions on emerging market multinational corporations’ (EMNCs) ownership strategies. Facing a large informal institutional distance that represents diverse cultural beliefs, EMNCs opt for a low ownership position that alleviates legitimacy threat, whereas a large formal institutional distance leads EMNCs to establish dominant ownership control. EMNC home market conditions, including market size and regulatory institutional quality, further explain the differential effects of institutional distances.     

Institutional and corporate drivers of global talent management: Evidence from the Arab Gulf region

This study analyses how talent management (TM) is molded by institutional and corporate drivers. We borrow from the vast institutional literature to understand how organizations adopt and implement TM practices within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) context. This context is valuable not only because it tackles an under-researched region, but also because the type of variables found further our understanding of TM processes in non-Western contexts. Companies abide by localization rules to sustain their “legal” legitimacy, while trying to improve efficiency through actions that enhance their economic sustainability. Companies try to strike a strategic balance between local adaptation and global assimilation of their TM processes. We conclude by presenting a framework that portrays how various forces impact the TM process.     

跨国公司生产组织变革、技术外溢与我国加工贸易的升级

本文探讨了跨国公司国际生产组织的变革以及与这种变革相适应的国际生产网络中的技术外溢机制与加工贸易升级之间的关系。为了与产品内分工相适应,跨国公司调整其国际生产组织方式,形成了国际生产网络。以跨国公司为主导的国际生产网络中的技术外溢为我国加工企业提升生产能力带来了良机,对我国加工贸易升级具有重要意义。我国的加工贸易企业既要积极参与到国际生产网络之中,又要主动学习和吸收高层级主体向其溢出的先进技术和知识。     

我国装备制造业创新管理模式的战略路径

由于信息技术的推动,国际制造业发生了重大变化：由实体制造向“虚拟制造”转变、由完全制造向网络化总装制造转化、由本地制造向转移制造转化、由封闭型技术研究向全球化合作研究转化。尽管我国装备制造业的总体运行态势较好,但是行业内各企业发展不均衡、亏损现象较为严重、企业集中度低、集群效益不明显,并且自主技术创新能力十分薄弱。因此应从以下方面创新我国装备制造业的管理模式：在产品管理上实行标准化；在管理手段方面实现完全信息化；技术创新自主化和创新主体企业化；在区域管理方面,建立富含动态能力的区域创新网络并实现集群化。     

承接沿海产业转移中郴州物流发展战略选择

郴州市作为湘、粤、赣省际中心城市,政策、区域、交通、资源优势为其承接沿海产业转移提供了良好的契机。产业转移与物流业的发展关联度非常大,物流作为制造业产业链中关键的一环,其发展水平直接影响到郴州是否能成功承接沿海制造业的转移。但目前郴州承接沿海产业转移过程中存在着物流服务能力不强、运作成本较高等问题,因此郴州应通过完善物流发展规划、推动物流业优化升级、加大第三方物流企业发展力度等手段着力发展物流产业,更好地承接沿海产业转移。     

风险基础战略系统审计模型设计及其应用

风险基础战略系统审计是审计模式发展的最新阶段。风险基础战略系统审计是以战略观和系统观为指导思想,以被审计单位的战略经营风险为导向,以风险的识别、评估和应对程序为中心,侧重于评估财务报表重大错报风险的审计模式。本文结合新审计准则和《企业风险管理框架》的思想,从战略论和系统论的角度,试图设计出风险基础战略系统审计模型。     

贵州国际货物多式联运发展的战略机遇分析

国际货物多式联运是在集装箱运输基础上发展起来的新型联合运输组织形式,西南地区进出口贸易的发展为该地区发展国际货物多式联运业务提供了巨大的市场机会,贵州西南地区的交通枢纽地位以及贵州联运集团公司的实力使贵州获得了发展国际货物多式联运难得的战略机遇。     

信任与战略决策绩效:对中国家族企业高层管理团队的一个实证研究

大量文献讨论了我国私营企业中的“信任”问题;许多轶闻式的证据也表明,私营企业高层管理团队成员的彼此信任程度极大地影响了其绩效和成长。本文试图从高层管理团队的角度,探讨信任与企业战略决策绩效的关系,并揭示高层管理团队内信任的影响因素。通过实证研究发现,我国私营企业高层管理团队内的信任度与团队成员间的社会交往程度有非常密切的联系,同时,信任度直接影响了高管层的战略决策绩效。     

新世纪跨国公司全球经营网络在中国发展的特征分析

中国加入WTO后,对外贸易呈现出崭新的面貌。跨国公司从投资力度和投资规模、投资化或控股运作形式,并购手段、区域总部进入、本土化进程等战略,有计划、有步骤地扩大在中国投资。在跨国公司进入的同时,我国应培育自己的跨国公司,以实现世界经济强国的目标。     

全球战略性新兴产业发展的主要异同点与未来趋势

全球金融危机爆发以来,以美、日、欧为主的发达国家和地区,纷纷把发展的目光聚焦到培育发展既可促进科技创新、又可引领未来发展的新兴产业上来。文章介绍了美国、日本、欧盟在培育发展战略性新兴产业方面的主要做法,归纳了这些国家和地区在这个方面的主要异同点。最后,分析了全球战略性新兴产业发展的未来趋势。