The multinational paradigm

The Strategy of Korean Multinational Enterprises – Multiple versus Single plant

Using firm-level panel data for Korean MNEs, we make a distinction between being the only affiliate of a parent firm and being the one of the multiple affiliates of a parent firm. Comparisons of correlations between purchases and sales of each group of the foreign affiliates show distinctive difference in the motivations of FDI and the multinational activities, due to the difference in the numb...

The multinational corporation

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The university: a multinational corporation?

Traditionally there has been a stark contrast between ‘cathedrals of learning’ (universities) and ‘cathedrals of earning’ (corporations). In the last few decades, however, it has been increasingly argued that university organizations need to be more similar to corporations and that there should be greater interaction between universities and corporations. Arguments along these lines have been p...

Multinational corporations.

Adventure Sports Development Paradigm

In the recent years, adventure sports have been growing increasingly. Adventure sports are new and appealing activities that regularly include some kinds of physical and mental challenges and relative presence of natural environment. These activities are presenting new paths and sometime they called as a serious competitor for mainstream sport. The aim of this study was to present a paradigm fo...