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Assessing the role of host country human rights protection on multinational enterprises' choice of investment strategy
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posted on 2020-11-13, 09:26 authored by Rekha Rao-Nicholson, Luda SvystunovaAlthough international business studies have examined the role of non-market factors in multinational enterprises’ (MNEs) foreign ownership, there is a limited focus on the role of host country human rights records on MNEs’ ownership decisions. Further, there is little understanding of the differences in ownership decisions between the developed country multinational enterprises (DMNEs) and emerging-market multinational enterprises (EMNEs) as influenced by the non-market context of their host countries. This study, therefore, explores the links between the host country’s human rights governance and MNEs’ ownership strategy in cross-border acquisitions. We argue that clarity in human rights governance in the host country will encourage MNEs to establish higher stakes in local targets and that this relationship will be stronger for DMNEs than for EMNEs. Our findings, which support these hypotheses, offer insights into the relationship between MNE investment strategy and human rights governance, and inform the debate on the differences between internationalization strategies of EMNEs and DMNEs.
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- Loughborough University London
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Management International ReviewVolume
60Issue
2Pages
177 - 209Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLCVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Management International Review. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11575-020-00413-y.Acceptance date
2020-02-19Publication date
2020-03-27Copyright date
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0938-8249eISSN
1861-8901Publisher version
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- en
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Dr Luda Svystunova. Deposit date: 12 November 2020Usage metrics
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