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Bureaucrats in International Business: A Review of Five Decades of Research on State-Owned MNEs

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Rygh reviews 134 studies related to state-owned multinational enterprises (SOMNEs) published over five decades. The reviewed studies demonstrate effects of state ownership on international business decisions such as foreign market entry mode and host-country location. However, effects are mixed and context seems to play a key role. The review also demonstrates that we still know little about important issues such as SOMNEs’ international performance and the effects SOMNEs have on home and host countries.

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We thank Gabriel R.G. Benito, Jeremy Clegg, Birgitte Grøgaard, Philipp Strobl, Hinrich Voss, and participants at BI Norwegian Business School seminars, the 2014 SMS Conference, the 2016 EIBA Conference, and the 2018 AIB-UK&I Conference for helpful comments.

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Rygh, A. (2019). Bureaucrats in International Business: A Review of Five Decades of Research on State-Owned MNEs. In: Chidlow, A., Ghauri, P.N., Buckley, T., Gardner, E.C., Qamar, A., Pickering, E. (eds) The Changing Strategies of International Business. The Academy of International Business. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03931-8_3

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