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Showing 1 to 20 of 132 for “"Multinational Corporations"”.
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Multinational corporations: friends or foes of peace? Multinational corporations and state capture in Colombia
… and policymakers referring to the role played by corporations, particularly MNCs, in the socio-economic development of the countries facing armed conflicts. It provides a clear indication of research gaps within and between these different sets of literature in order to elucidate the central …
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International trade, multinational corporations, and American wages
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1994.
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Logistics barriers for multinational corporations doing business in China
With rapid economic growth, China attracts many multinational corporations (MNCs) as a manufacturing center with both its cheap labor cost and a huge consumer market. While doing business in China, most MNCs have faced logistical problems in connection with the transportation of their materials and …
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The role of multinational corporations in UK sustainable development policy
… and complex governance systems, the power of multinational corporations (MNCs), and subsequently their role in sustainable development is being questioned. This thesis will enter this debate by investigating the role of MNCs in UK sustainable development policy. Specifically, focus has been …
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Real estate master planning for multinational corporations : a developing model
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1996.
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Greening the Cement Industry in Morocco: The Role of Multinational Corporations
Corporate environmental responsibility is an emerging concept in developing countries, especially ones where environmental legislation regulating business activity is not enforced. In some instances, business actors voluntarily organize a collective action to institute the adoption of environmental …
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Global leadership: An Analysis of three Leadership Competency Models in Multinational Corporations
… international environments, it is essential for multinational corporations to appreciate the complexities leaders face and support individuals in developing the requisite competencies. How then can leaders move from one-dimensional to cross-cultural models of global leadership to encourage more …
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Global leadership and the development of intercultural competency in U.S. multinational corporations
… of global leaders within the context of the U.S. multinational corporation (U.S.M.C.). This research seeks to examine how organizations develop managers capable of leading in a pluralistic work environment and the implications of this kind of learning on the current assumptions held by …
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Corporate social responsibility and reporting by multinational corporations in Bangladesh: an exploration
… behind corporate social reporting (CSR) by large corporations in general and subsidiaries of multinational corporations in particular in Bangladesh. It particularly addresses the research question: Why, in Bangladesh, do corporations in general and subsidiaries of MNCs in particular produce or not …
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Corporate Governance in Multinational Corporations: Aligning the Interests of Subsidiaries and Headquarters
… governance relationships that exist between multinational corporations' subsidiaries and their headquarters. Parent-subsidiary corporate governance relationships align the interests of the subsidiaries with the interests of the headquarters, and they are represented by the bundles of …
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Multinational corporations in violent conflict: a case study of firestone in Liberia
… Liberia (one of many of the subsidiaries of the multinational, Bridgestone Corporation) had been operating the world’s largest rubber plantation in Liberia’s Margibi County for over six decades. Over the course of three years, Firestone engaged with various actors in the Liberian conflict theatre …
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Control of technology in Latin America: a study of multinational corporations perception.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management. Thesis. 1974. M.S.
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The role of multinational corporations in the transfer of management technology to Nigeria
1 PDF file (xii, 176 pages)
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Estimating the Preference of Countries and Multinational Corporations Using Two-Sided Matching Model
… only materialize with the consent of both the multinational corporation (MNC) and the host country. However, the literature on FDI has focused only on the preference of MNCs, assuming that all countries are eager to receive FDI. Through various case studies, I show that countries have varied …
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High Performance Work Practices, National Culture, and Knowledge Transfer Within U.S. Multinational Corporations
Based on organizational learning theory and resource-based view, I proposed a new theoretical model to understand how high performance work practices influence knowledge transfer within U.S. MNCs. Exploration and exploitation as two types of learning capabilities provided the theoretical basis for …
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Internationally-Focused Managerial Behaviors of Executives Working in Large United States Multinational Corporations
Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs
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Current Status of Diversity Initiatives in Multinational Corporations in the State of Illinois
This study revealed the following: Multinational corporations are planning, developing and implementing an impressive number and variety of diversity initiatives not only in the United States but also internationally. The same set of values guides domestic and international diversity initiatives. …
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Development of Biculturalism In Cross-Cultural Managers In Multinational Corporations: A Cultural Participation Approach
<p>A critical issue faced by multinational corporations involves developing abilities to function in, and benefit from, multiple cultural environments and to coordinate culturally diverse subunits. Biculturalism, understood as the internalization of two cultural meaning systems, addresses this …
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Changing corporate strategies in a period of crisis: high technology multinational corporations in Scotland
… in fourteen leading computer and semiconductor multinationals, was designed to integrate and explore the usefulness of theories on industrial structure and labour markets. The product life cycle model cannot solve the problems of diversified and increasingly competitive global markets and their …
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