http://repub.eur.nl/res/aut/6666/ List of Publications en http://repub.eur.nl/static-eur/img/logo.png http://repub.eur.nl http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/13938/ 2008-03-21T00:00:00Z In recent years, major disasters have figured prominently in the media. While corporate response to disasters may have raised corporate philanthropy to a new level, it remains an understudied phenomenon. This article draws on comparative research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate philanthropy to explore the geography of corporate philanthropic disaster response. The study analyzes donation announcements made by Fortune Global 500 firms from North America, Europe and Asia to look for regional patterns across three recent disasters: the South Asian Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and the Kashmiri earthquake. The results reveal inter-regional differences in the overall likelihood of donations and in their cash value, in addition to the identification of home-region- and local presence effects. Implications for researchers and practitioners are discussed. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/16291/ 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/7189/ 2005-12-21T00:00:00Z The debate on globalization has long been characterized by theses of institutional convergence and divergence. The emergence of Anglo-Saxon shareholder capitalism as the dominant paradigm since the start of the 1990s is associated with the pursuit of global strategies by Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) and the consolidation of a multilateral trade regime. Yet the link between actual MNE strategies and developments in the institutional arena remains an understudied phenomenon. Tensions between multiple levels of institution building – unilateralism, regionalism and multilateralism – create an environment of strategic uncertainty for MNEss. Consequently, MNEs’ actual international strategies reveal much about perceptions of the institutional environment in which they operate and allows for the documentation of more subtle paradigm shifts. The internationalization strategies pursued by MNEs from the Triad over the 1990s reveal that a multilateral strategic reality was anticipated by only an elite few, while the vast majority of firms operated in a unilaterally- or at best regionally-determined institutional environment. This contribution suggests that institutional restructuring is multifaceted and sometimes contradictory, casting a new and more subtle light on the globalization debate. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/7174/ 2005-12-19T00:00:00Z Recent work has emphasized the importance of regional strategies downstream, adding new depth to the debate on ‘globalization’. This paper adds to the debate by exploring the regional dimension upstream for a sample of Triad-based Fortune 500 firms. We find support for our hypothesis that MNEs with higher levels of value-added upstream are relatively constrained in their ability to shift that activity outside the home region due to its strategic significance to home-region stakeholders. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/6994/ 2005-10-18T00:00:00Z This paper contributes to the literature on CSR and International Business by linking firm internationalization to corporate philanthropy. Considering the 2004 Tsunami disaster as a highly relevant case of an international societal issue, we analyze the characteristics of the corporate response to the disaster among Fortune Global 500 firms. We find that home region, degree of internationalization, firm size and profitability most strongly influenced the propensity of firms to donate as well as the value of their donations. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/1272/ 2004-06-03T00:00:00Z Regionalisering heeft het multilaterale stelsel ingehaald. Binnen dat kader zijn de gemeenschappelijke markt in Europa (SEM) en de Vrijhandelzone in Noord Amerika (NAFTA) de bi-regionale kern geworden van de mondiale economie. Omdat de onderbouwende beleidsmodellen vrij abstract waren en een vrij eenvoudige benadering van ‘de onderneming’ hebben gebruikt, is nog tien jaar na dato weinig eenduidige conclusies over de betekenis, aard een uitkomst van de ‘tweede regionaliseringsgolf’. Ondernemingen hebben een belangrijke rol gespeeld bij de totstandkoming van regionalisering. Deze veelal grote, machtige ‘kernondernemingen’ leiden internationaliseringsprocessen en hebben een sterke politieke visie. Voor hun is regionalisering hèt institutionele kader waarbinnen zij hun kernstatus en –posities proberen vast te houden. Deze studie, uitgaande van de geografische spreiding van de economische activiteiten van kernondernemingen anno 1990, werpt licht op hun strategische migraties naar aanleiding van regionale integratie. De data laten diverse migraties zien, vooral na 1995, die soms verdere internationalisering inhouden maar ook de-internationalisering, met als uitkomst toenemende polarisering tussen Noord Amerikaanse en Europese kernondernemingen en dus ook een sterk ‘diadiserende’ wereldeconomie met een bi-regionale kern. Alan Muller was born in the United States and attended high school at Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington. He received his undergraduate degree cum laude from the University of Washington’s Department of History in 1993, and participated in an exchange program with the University of Aberdeen, Scotland in 1991-92. Following graduation Alan went to Vienna, Austria as a Fulbright Teaching Assistant, where he assisted English teachers at several high schools while continuing his study in Modern European History. In 1995 he entered a Master’s degree program in International Relations at the University of Amsterdam, graduating cum laude in 1998 with a thesis on ‘Stolper- Samuelson and the Effects of Trade on Mexican Wages’. Alan Muller is currently a researcher at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and research director of the SCOPE Expert Center, through which he has been involved in research projects for inter alia the Dutch Directorate for Development Cooperation and ICCO. His research focuses on company strategies under regional integration, business-government interaction, development issues, bargaining dynamics and international political economy. He has published in the Multinational Business Review and presented numerous papers at academic conferences such as the AIB and AOM annual meetings. At the annual meeting of the European International Business Academy in 2001, he was awarded the 'Most Challenging Thesis Proposal Award' along with a cash prize in recognition of his groundbreaking approach to his PhD research topic. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/135/ 2001-12-11T00:00:00Z The current understanding of Regional Integration is largely macro-economic and political in orientation and has tended to neglect, even ex post, the significance of the Single European Market (SEM) for the spatial restructuring of individual firms. The problem stems largely from a lopsided understanding of Regional Integration. This paper introduces a two-level approach in which integration and its outcomes are studied based on the strategic intent and strategic realities of two types of key actors: governments and core companies. In this contribution it is argued that in advocating the SEM, these actors did not necessarily share the same strategic intent. A new firm-level data set shows also that the expectations of European policymakers did not accurately match actual strategies developed by European core companies.