Emerging Multinationals in Emerging Markets

Ravi Ramamurti is CBA Distinguished Professor of International Business at Northeastern University, Boston. Jitendra V. Singh is Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. From 2007 to 2009, he was Dean, Shaw Foundation Chair, and Professor of Strategy, Management, and Organization at the Nanyang Business School, Singapore.

• List of figures; List of tables; Abbreviations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction: 1. Why study emerging market MNEs? Ravi Ramamurti; 2. Third world multinationals: a look back Louis T. Wells, Jr; 3. Theoretical aspects of MNEs from emerging markets Alan Rugman; 4. Does firm ownership matter? POEs vs. FOEs in the developing world Alice H. Amsden; Part II. Country Studies: 5. Chinese multinationals: emerging through new global gateways Peter Williamson and Ming Zeng; 6. Indian multinationals: generic internationalization strategies Ravi Ramamurti and Jitendra V. Singh; 7. Russian multinationals: natural resource champions Daniel J. McCarthy, Sheila M. Puffer and Oleg S. Vikhanski; 8. Brazilian multinationals: surfing the waves of internationalization Afonso Fleury and Maria Tereza Leme Fleury; 9. South African multinationals: building on a unique legacy Andrea Goldstein and Wilson Prichard; 10. Mexican multinationals: lessons from Cemex Donald R. Lessard and Rafel Lucea; 11. Thai multinationals: struggling to enter the big league Pavida Pananond; 12. Israeli multinationals: competing from a small open economy Yair Aharoni; Part III. Conclusions: 13. What have we learned about emerging-market MNEs? Ravi Ramamurti; Index.

'This volume is an excellent contribution to the literature on emerging multinationals. But what I particularly liked about this particular group of essays was that, following four carefully written and analytical robust chapters on the origin and determinants of the foreign activities of emerging MNEs, there followed eight quite distinctive and original case studies of those new forms of investment by particular home countries. Inter alia these revealed that each emerging country has its own particular reasons and agenda for investing outside its national boundaries. Altogether, I found this a first rate and eminently readable group of essays. The volume deserves the widest attention of government, the business community, and academic scholars alike.' John H. Dunning, Rutgers University and Reading University