Aleksandra Wąsowska is Professor of International Management at the Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, where she heads the Department of Strategy and Leadership. Her research interests include strategies of emerging market MNEs and psychological determinants of entrepreneurship (including international entrepreneurship). She was a visiting academic at the University of Oxford, conducting the project “The Communist Legacy and International Business”. She has authored and co-authored numerous journal articles published in Business History, Management International Review, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Baltic Journal of Management, European Journal of International Management, and Journal of East European Management Studies, as well as book chapters edited by Routledge, Palgrave, and Emerald. She is a member of EIBA.

• Introduction. 1. The legitimacy of MNE as a problem, a solution, and a challenge 2. Gaining ground: Chinese Firms’ Quest for Legitimacy in Africa 3. Legitimacy in the Global South: Brazil’s Multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa 4. History matters: Legitimization strategies of Indian Multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa 5. Legitimizing strategies of infant multinationals: Polish firms in Sub-Saharan Africa. Concluding remarks.

Aleksandra Wąsowska is Professor of International Management at the Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, where she heads the Department of Strategy and Leadership. Her research interests include strategies of emerging market MNEs and psychological determinants of entrepreneurship (including international entrepreneurship). She was a visiting academic at the University of Oxford, conducting the project “The Communist Legacy and International Business”. She has authored and co-authored numerous journal articles published in Business History, Management International Review, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Baltic Journal of Management, European Journal of International Management, and Journal of East European Management Studies, as well as book chapters edited by Routledge, Palgrave, and Emerald. She is a member of EIBA.

• Introduction. 1. The legitimacy of MNE as a problem, a solution, and a challenge 2. Gaining ground: Chinese Firms’ Quest for Legitimacy in Africa 3. Legitimacy in the Global South: Brazil’s Multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa 4. History matters: Legitimization strategies of Indian Multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa 5. Legitimizing strategies of infant multinationals: Polish firms in Sub-Saharan Africa. Concluding remarks.

Aleksandra Wąsowska is Professor of International Management at the Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, where she heads the Department of Strategy and Leadership. Her research interests include strategies of emerging market MNEs and psychological determinants of entrepreneurship (including international entrepreneurship). She was a visiting academic at the University of Oxford, conducting the project “The Communist Legacy and International Business”. She has authored and co-authored numerous journal articles published in Business History, Management International Review, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Baltic Journal of Management, European Journal of International Management, and Journal of East European Management Studies, as well as book chapters edited by Routledge, Palgrave, and Emerald. She is a member of EIBA.

• Introduction. 1. The legitimacy of MNE as a problem, a solution, and a challenge 2. Gaining ground: Chinese Firms’ Quest for Legitimacy in Africa 3. Legitimacy in the Global South: Brazil’s Multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa 4. History matters: Legitimization strategies of Indian Multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa 5. Legitimizing strategies of infant multinationals: Polish firms in Sub-Saharan Africa. Concluding remarks.