Multinational Business Review: Volume 12 Issue 1

Efficiency and Resilience of French Multinational Banks: Evidence From the Pre‐Euro Era

T. Chotigeat, Sebastien Kramer, C. S. Pyun

Large French banks have restructured over the last two decades responding to the evolution of the French banking system, European union integration, and globalization. Using…

National Culture and Research and Development Activities

Joao Pedro Couto, Jose Cabral Vieira

This paper examines the effect of national culture on the process of innovation and research and development activities in the subsidiaries of multinational companies. For this…

The Contingency Framework of Foreign Entry Mode Decisions: Locating and Reinforcing the Weakest Link

Tao Gao

This paper delves into the mechanism of the contingency framework for foreign entry mode decisions and identifies two essential tasks that jointly determine the outcome of the…

To Localize or to Standardize on the Web: Empirical Evidence from Italy, India, Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland

Nitish Singh, Olivier Furrer, Massimiliano Ostinelli

With the growth of worldwide e‐commerce, companies are increasingly targeting foreign online consumers. However, there is a dearth of evidence as to whether global consumers…

What is the Shape of the Multinationality‐Performance Relationship?

Douglas E. Thomas, Lorraine Eden

Previous theoretical explanations and empirical analyses of the multinationality‐performance relationship have produced mixed arguments and results. Linear and inverted U‐shaped…

Global Improvement Initiatives

Jim Meteer, Larry Hummel, Frank Wicks, Thomas Nolan

Executives of a multinational company were looking for ways to spread improvements made at one location to other locations throughout the world. Their initial approach of sharing…