Multinational Business Review: Volume 14 Issue 3

What Matters Most? A Review of MNE Literature, 1990‐2000

Rangamohan V. Eunni, James E. Post

Based on a review of over 450 articles on multinational enterprises published in leading management journals from 1990‐2000, we identified eighteen issues that had engaged the…

A Comparative Study of Foreign Direct Investment Activities in Georgia and Kyrgyz Republic

Erdener Kaynak, Serkan Yalcin, Ekrem Tatoglu

This paper attempts to fill the knowledge gap in the area of foreign direct investment (FDI) research in the regions of Caucasus and Central Asia. Various dimensions of FDI were…

The Effects of Agency Problems on the Stability of the International Joint Venture

H. Young Baek, Soonhong Min, Sungmin Ryu

We introduce agency and team production theories to explain the international joint venture (IJV) phenomenon. We regard IJV partners as participants in a team production and…

Stock Ownership Structure and Voluntary Disclosure of Quarterly Foreign Sales Data of U.S. Multinational Corporations

Mahmud Hossain, Barry R. Marks, Santanu Mitra

The ownership structure of a corporation can alleviate the agency problem that arises between shareholders and managers of a corporation, which implies that the ownership…

International Channels of Distribution: A Classification System for Analyzing Research Studies

Prescott C. Ensign

This paper presents a systematic method for classifying research on international channels of distribution. It is used to examine 79 articles published during an 18‐year period…