INTRODUCTION Today, the Fourth Industrial Revolution represents a new technological paradigm, where digital systems, the Internet, and the conventional industry will merge together, leading to a transformation of the multinational companies. Industry 4.0 (or I4.0, another name for the current technological era) has captured the
Introduction: “FAAG”: We should get used with this acronym, which stands for Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and Google. These companies share many things: they are high tech businesses, highly successful, extremely profitable, and part of the daily lives of billions of people around the globe. A
Introduction Rumours that Apple will acquire Netflix have been around since 2016 but have increased lately. Although Netflix is surely an expensive M&A target, with a market valuation of US$ 156 billion [1], Apple has deep pockets to fund such impressive movement, as the company
Evodio Kaltenecker, Ph.D., and Mike Szymanski, Ph.D. Introduction Governments are the primary entities responsible for fighting some of the world´s main problems: the abuse of human right abuses, poverty, hunger, global warming, gender inequality, for instance. However, the last decades witnessed the rise of a
This article presents the internationalization strategy of selected family-run/family-owned multinational companies. The general perspective is to discuss the different internationalization paths presented by different family multinationals and to describe their entry-modes in foreign markets. The cases include family-controlled enterprises from the United States, India, Mexico,
This article presents some multinational companies from Mexico – which I will call MultiMex. These firms present a very interesting research topic in international business because they are subject to an unstable macro environment, the Mexican economy, and to two powerful external forces: (i) the
Introduction The Chinese rise in the global economy and the strength of the economic ties between China and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) may reduce the economic influence of the United States in that part of the world. Given that the combined GDP of
Business schools around the world need to know what their future will look like. Changes in demographics, globalization, digitalization, and the rise of alternative career paths will force MBA and Executive MBA programs around the world to change their curricula and to use new teaching
Biologists, business managers, and economic theorists use models with many phases to improve the understanding of the evolutionary process in diverse areas, such as the development of new products or the growth of a colony of bacteria. Therefore, the lifecycle of a product, the technology
Companies, individuals, families, NGOs, cells, organisms and empires go through different stages throughout their lives. Each phase has well-defined characteristics and are consequences of the challenges that the organizations face through their lifetime. More specifically, the phases are easily identified when one analyses the cognitive capacities of
