Shaping regional strategies of multinational corporations

Multinational corporations.

Multinational Corporations: Corporate Social

The aim of this paper is to identify contribution from MNCs from Australia in Thailand in the form of corporate social responsibility (CSR). The key focus is given to the analysis of CSR activities from MNCs in an effort to fight poverty in Thailand. Secondary data was collected from two MNCs in Thailand. The results of this study identify two key themes: (1) climate change and poverty, and (2)...

Multinational Corporations in Transnational Accountability

Multinational Corporations as Differentiated Networks

Multinational corporations are considered as a differentiated network of interorganizational (HQ-subsidiary) relations. Using data from 66 of the largest North American and European multinationals it is shown that four naturally existing clusters of subsidiaries can be found on the basis of the complexity of the external environment faced by the subsidiary and its organizational resources. Cent...

Regional Trade Integration and Multinational Firm Strategies

This paper analyzes the e¤ects of the formation of a regional trade agreement on the level and nature of multinational …rm activity. We examine aggregate data that captures the response of U.S. multinational …rms to the formation of the ASEAN free trade agreement. Observed patterns guide the development of a model in which heterogeneous …rms from a source country decide how to serve two foreign...