MNEs from Russia and CIS

Résumé du livre

Our call was motivated by the fact that over the last two decades both the academic literature and the popular press have been overly populated with studies on emerging markets in general and emerging markets multinational enterprises (MNEs) in particular. While the latter began their international operations much earlier, the beginning of the 2000s saw a significant increase in their scale and scope of expansion. This development has changed the shape of the global economy as the locus of financial and political power started shifting from advanced to emerging economies and triggered substantial research in that space. In the international business literature various phenomena have been examined and new debates have been born in regard to emerging markets and the MNEs originating there. This special issue is an attempt to contribute to the scholarly conversation on emerging market MNEs that has been taking place in international business outlets in general and on the pages of the IJOEM in particular. But as the title of the special issue clearlycommunicates, we take a step away from the highly popular term "emerging markets," which itself is grounded on the assumption of similarity among various countries clustered in this group: instead, we focus solely on MNEs from Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). In our minds, the differences between emerging markets are so vast that they render the umbrella term close to meaningless, at least as a title of a journal special issue. And as some of the articles that feature in this special issue show, even within the region that is our focus, there are important differences between the countries involved. Full paper available at https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOEM-07-2019-575.