Multinational Business Review: Volume 26 Issue 3

Why modern slavery thrives in multinational corporations’ global value chains

Christina Stringer, Snejina Michailova

Modern slavery, one of the most abhorrent crimes against humanity, is a profitable international business (IB). It often operates in a hidden form in the global value chains…

Running out of steam on emerging markets? The limits of MNE firm-specific advantages in China

Louise Curran, Lee Keng Ng

The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which the firm-specific advantages (FSAs) which underlie international expansion have proved resilient for European…

How does home country bribery affect firms’ foreign market focus?: The case of firms in transition economies

Jinsil Kim, David H. Weng, Seung-Hyun (Sean) Lee

Drawing on the bribery literature, this paper aims to examine the effect of bribes paid in the home country on firms’ decision to internationalize through exports from transition…

Location choice, ownership structure and multinational performance

Jinlong Gu, Yong Yang, Roger Strange

This paper aims to link location choice and ownership structure to the debate on the multinationality–performance relationship.

Investigating the link between foreign ownership and firm performance – an endogenous threshold approach

Nigel Driffield, Kai Sun, Yama Temouri

This paper aims to examine the relationship between foreign ownership and firm performance, using an approach which the authors show is more advanced than existing methods, and…