State-Owned Multinationals

Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra is Professor of International Business and Strategy at Northeastern University, USA, an AIB Fellow and co-editor of Global Strategy Journal. He studies the internationalization of firms, particularly emerging market multinationals; governance issues, especially corruption; and capability upgrading.

• Chapter 1. State-Owned Multinationals: An Introduction; Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra.-Part I. The Early Literature.- Chapter 2. The Evolution of State-Owned Multinational Enterprise Theory; Yair Aharoni.- Chapter 3. The International Aspects of State-Owned Enterprises; Raymond Vernon.- Chapter 4.European Government-Controlled Enterprises: Explaining International Strategic and Policy Decisions; Renato Mazzolini.- Part II New Attention to a Renewed Phenomenon.- Chapter 5. Exploring the Role of Government Involvement in Outward FDI from Emerging Economies; Chengqi Wang, Junjie Hong, Mario Kafouros, Mike Wright.- Chapter 6. State Ownership Effect on Firms' FDI Ownership Decisions Under Institutional Pressure: A Study of Chinese Outward-Investing Firms; Lin Cui and Fuming Jiang.- Chapter 7. Toward Resource Independence - Why State: Owned Entities Become Multinationals: An Empirical Study of India's Public R&D Laboratories; Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna.- Chapter 8. Varietiesin State Capitalism: Outward FDI Strategies of Central and Local State-Owned Enterprises from Emerging Economy Countries; Ming Hua Li, Lin Cui, Jiangyong Lu.- Chapter 9. Overcoming Distrust: How State-Owned Enterprises Adapt their Foreign Entries to Institutional Pressure Abroad; Klaus E. Meyer, Yuan Ding, Jing Li, Hua Zhang.-  Part III. Future Analyses.- Chapter 10. Theory and Research Directions; Aldo Mussachio and Sergio Lazzarini.