TYPOLOGY CHARACTERISTICS OF AFRICAN BUSINESS EXPANSION BY MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Multinational enterprises (forward - MNE) from developing counties have intensified their foreign business recently, including activities in Africa (in terms of the past - transnational corporations, TNC). Methodology explanation of such expansion requires the increases of mainstream MNE theories ad...

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Main Author: A. Sapuntsov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Publishing House of the State University of Management 2017-12-01
Series:Вестник университета
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Online Access:https://vestnik.guu.ru/jour/article/view/892
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description Multinational enterprises (forward - MNE) from developing counties have intensified their foreign business recently, including activities in Africa (in terms of the past - transnational corporations, TNC). Methodology explanation of such expansion requires the increases of mainstream MNE theories adequacy level. These models are primarily applicable to MNEs from developed countries and should be upgraded by accounting specificities and conditions relevant to the operations of MNEs from the developing world. The current state of such MNEs’ internationalization in African economy has been analyzed and the factors of these companies’ competitiveness in external markets have been generalized (including the factors acquired during transformations in home country economies). The approach based upon assessing the congruency of corporate assets and external environment in developing host countries has been introduced.
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spelling doaj.art-19d63421ddac4bec8f0e6ae4527e66102025-02-04T08:27:53ZengPublishing House of the State University of ManagementВестник университета1816-42772686-84152017-12-0101213213910.26425/1816-4277-2017-12-132-139892TYPOLOGY CHARACTERISTICS OF AFRICAN BUSINESS EXPANSION BY MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIESA. Sapuntsov0ФГБУН «Институт Африки Российской академии наук»Multinational enterprises (forward - MNE) from developing counties have intensified their foreign business recently, including activities in Africa (in terms of the past - transnational corporations, TNC). Methodology explanation of such expansion requires the increases of mainstream MNE theories adequacy level. These models are primarily applicable to MNEs from developed countries and should be upgraded by accounting specificities and conditions relevant to the operations of MNEs from the developing world. The current state of such MNEs’ internationalization in African economy has been analyzed and the factors of these companies’ competitiveness in external markets have been generalized (including the factors acquired during transformations in home country economies). The approach based upon assessing the congruency of corporate assets and external environment in developing host countries has been introduced.https://vestnik.guu.ru/jour/article/view/892mnefditncafricadeveloping countriescountries of the southmethodology
spellingShingle A. Sapuntsov
TYPOLOGY CHARACTERISTICS OF AFRICAN BUSINESS EXPANSION BY MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Вестник университета
mne
fdi
tnc
africa
developing countries
countries of the south
methodology
title TYPOLOGY CHARACTERISTICS OF AFRICAN BUSINESS EXPANSION BY MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
title_full TYPOLOGY CHARACTERISTICS OF AFRICAN BUSINESS EXPANSION BY MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
title_fullStr TYPOLOGY CHARACTERISTICS OF AFRICAN BUSINESS EXPANSION BY MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
title_full_unstemmed TYPOLOGY CHARACTERISTICS OF AFRICAN BUSINESS EXPANSION BY MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
title_short TYPOLOGY CHARACTERISTICS OF AFRICAN BUSINESS EXPANSION BY MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
title_sort typology characteristics of african business expansion by multinational enterprises from developing countries
topic mne
fdi
tnc
africa
developing countries
countries of the south
methodology
url https://vestnik.guu.ru/jour/article/view/892
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