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International Business Diplomacy
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International Business Diplomacy

How can Multinational Corporations Deal with Global Challenges?

Huub Ruël
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9781787430822
23 November 2017
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23 November 2017
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9781787432550
23 November 2017
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Multinational enterprises (MNEs) experienced ‘golden days’ during the 1990s and 2000s, they expanded globally and were major players in globalization. Today they have become powerful actors in the global economy. CEOs of international businesses are welcomed by heads of state as their counterparts, they are invited by governments to help solve global issues such as climate change and poverty, and they are facing dilemmas comparable to those of other international actors. 

However, MNEs are facing global legitimacy challenges. They are suspected of tax avoidance, using low wage countries for corporate benefits only, disrespecting privacy regulations, abusing consumer data, violating local community rights, exploiting natural resources, ignoring basic human rights, and employing too many lobbyists targeting national and international political decision-making processes for their own corporate interests. 

Although many of these challenges are not new, they have resurfaced and become more apparent during the past couple of years, partly due to the economic recession that many developed economies have faced and to the broader awareness of increasing global inequality and the importance of sustainability. 

How can international business respond? Strategic business diplomacy may be the answer. Business diplomacy involves developing strategies for long-term, positive relationship building with governments, local communities, and interest groups, aiming to establish and sustain legitimacy and to mitigate the risks arising from all non-commercial or exogenous factors in the global business environment.  

Business diplomacy is different from lobbying or strategic political activity; it implies an (strategic / holistic) approach of an international business to look at itself as an actor in the international diplomatic arena. Representation, communication and negotiation are key in such an approach. One of the consequences is that MNEs are able to operate in and show respect for an international business environment that consists of multiple stakeholders. This demands a strategic perspective and vision on the sector and the business environments in which the company wants to operate, and requires a specific set of instruments, skills and competences.

Introduction to the volume: International business diplomacy: a strategy for improving MNCs’ performance? A review of the concept and new insights from five European MNCs; Huub Ruёl (Volume editor) & Lisa Suren Business Diplomacy in Implementing the Global 2030 Development Agenda: Core Competencies needed at the Corporate and Managerial Level; Lichia Yiu and Ramond Saner What companies and universities mean by business diplomacy; Guilherme Frequas Nobre Business Diplomacy in Emerging markets: Intersection of Roles between States and Multinationals; Doudou Sidibé & Raymond Saner Business diplomacy in a consulariate format: historical overview and challenges in a globalized world; Guilherme Frequas Nobre The Ethics and Business Diplomacy of MNE Tax Avoidance; Duane Windsor Legitimacy of State Ownership in Foreign Direct Investments by Emerging Economy Firms; Wiboon Kittilaksanawong Businesses, associations and a multi-actor diplomacy; Peter Noordhoek Business Diplomacy in Brazil: Early Lessons from an Emerging Economy; Joseph C. Marques Corporate diplomacy and institutional upheaval in host-countries: The 'Arab Spring' experience of two Canadian multinationals in Egypt; Ali Taleb, Catalin Ratiu, Rick Molz Selected global challenges in view of a commercial diplomat. Selected practical cases from the business, trade and commercial diplomacy; Roman Holý

    Researchers and practitioners in business and diplomacy explore how multinational corporations can use diplomacy to help them deal with challenges in the international business arena. Their topics include business diplomacy in implementing the global 2030 development agenda: core competencies needed at the corporate and managerial levels, business diplomacy in emerging markets: the intersection of roles between states and multinationals, the ethics and business diplomacy of multinational company tax avoidance, the legitimacy of state ownership in foreign direct investments by emerging economic firms, and corporate diplomacy and institutional upheaval in host countries: the "Arab Spring" experience of two Canadian multinationals in Egypt.

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