The Unbalanced Geography of the World's Largest MNES: Institutional Quality and Head Office Distribution Across Countries
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For certain core activities, including head-office functions, the country of origin remains as important today as it was 200 years ago, even for the world's largest companies.
“For at least some key activities, such as core head office functions, home country origin matters as much now as it did two centuries ago, even in the world's largest firms (Coeurderoy & Verbeke, 2016).”
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- Authors
- Coeurderoy, R., & Verbeke, A.
- Affiliations
- ESCP Europe Paris France
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE)
- Corresponding author
- Verbeke, Alain
- ORCID
- Verbeke, Alain
- Venue
- Global Strategy Journal
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2016-05
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 127-148
- ISSN
- 2042-5791 (ISSN-L)
- 2042-5805
- OpenAlex
- W2345634198
- Cited by
- 24
- References
- 58
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 7.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Global Strategy Journal (publishedVersion)
- DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven) (submittedVersion)
- VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- World Bank Group
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › International Business and FDI
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management Information Systems › Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management
- Social Sciences › Communication › International Student and Expatriate Challenges
- Keywords
- multinational corporations, institutional quality, firm location decisions, cross-national comparison
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