Authors: Srinivas Prasad (Editor), Pervez N. Ghauri (Editor), Pervez N. Ghauri
ISBN-13: 9781567204216, ISBN-10: 156720421X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: March 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
S. BENJAMIN PRASAD is Director of York Research in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, and Professor Emeritus of Management at Ohio University and Central Michigan University. He has taught or conducted scholarly research in Brazil, Canada, Kuwait, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, and the Netherlands during a thirty-year period. The author of dozens of journal articles, he has written five books and edited ten.
PERVEZ N. GHAURI is Professor of International Business at the University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology, in Manchester, England.
Illuminates the challenges faced by global firms doing business in those developing countries that have attained the status of emerging markets, and highlights issues unique to the post-9/11 business environment.
Illustrations | ||
Preface | ||
Ch. 1 | On multinationals after 1989 | 3 |
Ch. 2 | The bald eagle cannot find its way in the rain forest | 13 |
Ch. 3 | Challenges for the European auto multinationals | 37 |
Ch. 4 | Multinationals and technology development in Latin America and East Asia | 61 |
Ch. 5 | Supranational rules on strategy context: Embraer and Brazil's aerospace program | 83 |
Ch. 6 | Initial trust of joint venture partners in emerging nations | 105 |
Ch. 7 | Family conglomerates : key features relevant to multinationals | 121 |
Ch. 8 | International joint venture control : an integrated framework | 147 |
Ch. 9 | An analysis of joint venture activities in Southeast Asia | 171 |
Ch. 10 | National culture in China and multinationals' performance | 195 |
Ch. 11 | Entering emerging markets : ignorance and discovery | 207 |
Ch. 12 | Strategies of multinationals in contemporary China | 227 |
Ch. 13 | Rethinking MNE-rmerging market relationships : some insights from East Asia | 251 |
Ch. 14 | Institutions and market reforms : a logical guide for MNE investments | 267 |
Ch. 15 | On economic liberalization in India | 285 |
Ch. 16 | A look ahead : multinational enterprise and emerging markets | 307 |
Selected bibliography | 311 | |
Index | 313 | |
About the editors and contributors | 317 |