What the Future Holds

Abstract

Contributing to the extant literature demonstrating the upsurge of emerging economy multinationals, this volume indicates certain key reasons for their successes and causes of challenges they pose. The volume sheds light on the following issues: the relationships between public policies and the internationalization needs of firms, the acquisition and post-acquisition strategies of multinationals from large emerging economies in developed countries, the catching-up process of a leading Chinese multinational firm, the acquisitions conducted by the Indian giant Tata Group in a 10-year period, the specifics of the overseas approaches of some of the largest Russian firms operating natural resource- and technology-based industries, role of resource fungibility and network ties in the internationalization of small high-technology South African firms, the particularities of internationalizing Polish firms via foreign direct investment, the rise of activities of emerging economy multinationals in Europe and the subsequent promotional policies of the European investment promotion agencies.