Globalization of Asian Multinational Enterprises: Toward Sustainability Strategies

2020 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 18K01747
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 07080:Business administration-related
• Research Institution: Saitama University
• Principal Investigator: Kittilaksanawong Wiboon 埼玉大学, 人文社会科学研究科, 教授 (80731984)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-04-01 – 2021-03-31
• Keywords: Globalization / Sustainability / Multinational Enterprise / Asia

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The rise of Asian multinational enterprises from emerging economies on the global stage has enriched major theoretical perspectives in international business. However, these theories have not sufficiently addressed increasing demands for sustainability from host countries and global societies. The sustainability of foreign direct investments has become even more demanding in the present more disintegrated, nationalism, and socially-oriented global environment. This research addresses three major sustainability-related scientific questions in terms of: 1) foreign direct investment and its legitimacy, 2) responsible business conducts, governance and monitoring, and 3) stakeholder management and social impact investment. Adopting a multi-level stakeholder approach, this research aims not only to create interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives, but also to better solve problems of practitioners, policy makers, and societies in the most recent trend of global environment.

Free Research Field

strategic management and international business

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

マルチレベルの利害関係者のアプローチを採用するこの研究は、学際的な理論的視点を作成するだけでなく、地球環境の最新の傾向における実践者、政策立案者、および社会の問題をよりよく解決することを目的としています。