 This paper investigates the influence of indigenous Indonesian management behaviours during international business negotiations in an Indonesian context, and the impact of these behaviours upon multinational corporations (MNC) in Indonesia.  Through an inductive analysis of interviews with 55 Indonesian and nonIndonesian managers, this paper applies a postcolonial theoretical lens to identif...

This paper develops a political sensemaking approach to the post-acquisition integration process, which directs attention to how powerful social actors construct the relationship between multinational corporations (MNCs) and their multiple local contexts. This political, processual and actor-centred perspective explores subsidiary integration as identity construction and institution building. T...

Poverty has long been an endemic problem in developing countries. The role of multinational corporations (MNCs) in fostering or undermining development within poor local communities in developing countries has been a subject of intensive debate within academic and practitioner circles. This paper explores the contribution to poverty alleviation from MNCs in two South East Asian countries, Lao P...

A number of studies have been conducted for addressing the issues related to cultural diversity of employees working for Multinational Corporations (MNCs) operating in South Asian countries. However, only a few of the studies have looked into the issues related to how culture plays a role in shaping key Human Resource(HR) practices such as: compensation policy, job security, training and develo...

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)...

There is a vast amount of literature that considers the importance of the family as an institution. Little attention, however, has been given to the impact of family structures on institutions, their dynamics, and the ability to change them. This limits our ability to understand distinct institutional developments B and hence growth B in the past and the present. This paper illustrates this by ...

As progressives confront the problems of the twenty-first century, be they global poverty and increasing income inequality, the scourge of HIV and other diseases, educational disparities, or climate change, an increasingly popular strategy is to enlist corporations in the effort. Even as some progressives continue to launch attacks on corporate misbehavior, often excoriating corporations for ca...

An S-Corp election can have positive and negative impacts on the valuation of a minority interest in a closely-held company depending on the specific facts pertinent to the company. In the majority of cases, the S-Corp election has a net positive economic impact to the fair market value of a minority interest, but the net effect can vary materially between shareholders of the same company, and ...