Full Description
This contributed volume provides theoretical and empirical insights into a variety of contemporary issues about inequality, geography, and global value chains in today's world, where global disruptions are prevalent, globalization is being transformed, and multinational enterprises (MNEs) are under pressure to promote sustainability. Many challenges and tensions created by growing inequality within and between countries, cities, and individuals, coupled with recent disruptions in the global economy, beg important questions regarding the role of MNEs.
A valuable resource for scholars and students in international business, the book provides a richer understanding of how MNE activities are being affected by the complex dynamics of the modern global business environment and discusses what strategies they need to implement in order to adapt to a changing world, while accounting for the interests of a broader range of stakeholders.
Contents
1. Are multinational enterprises capable of and/or responsible for combating rising inequality?.- Part 1. Inequality and institutions.- 2. Left behind. Research on foreign divestment and local employees.-3. Universal' CSR and its discontents in an emerging economy.- 4. Using non-market strategies to respond to institutional schisms: The case of Florida House Bill 1557 and the Walt Disney Company.- Part 2. Geography.- 5. Political risk and location choice of Chinese SMEs.- 6. FDI in Balkan countries: The role of EU accession on attraction.- 7. Innovative foreign direct investments and the knowledge sources for green and digital inventions: A patent-based analysis.- Part 3. Global Value Chains.- 8. Assessing value capture in GVCs: Conceptual issues and evidence at the country level.- 9. The relationship between Global Value Chains, green technologies and air pollution. Initial evidence for EU regions.- 10. Global Value Chain resilience and reshoring during Covid-19: Challenges in a post-covid world.
