Brazilian Multinationals Competences for Internationalization [Paperback]

A 2011 analysis of the rise of Brazilian multinationals, examining their competencies and competitive strategies in a variety of different settings.The Fortune 500 increasingly features more and more companies from emerging economies. This 2011 book examines and explains the rise of Brazilian multinationals and compares their development to that experienced by multinationals from other emerging economies, including Latin America, Russia, India and China.The Fortune 500 increasingly features more and more companies from emerging economies. This 2011 book examines and explains the rise of Brazilian multinationals and compares their development to that experienced by multinationals from other emerging economies, including Latin America, Russia, India and China.Since the 1950s, subsidiaries of the most prestigious foreign multinationals have played a key role in Brazilian economic development, thus creating a very competitive domestic market. On top of this, government interventions in the last few decades have been inconsistent and contradictory, resulting in a series of economic crises. Only the most resilient Brazilian firms have been able to survive and prosper in this challenging environment. This book analyzes a variety of leading Brazilian multinationals and examines their competencies and competitive strategies in a variety of different settings. It develops an innovative analytical framework based on international business, international operations management, and international human resources management. This framework is then applied not only to Brazilian multinationals, but also firms from Latin America, Russia, India, and China. This provides novel insights into the rise of Brazilian multinationals and the increasingly important role played by emerging economy multinationals in the global economy.List of figures; List of tables; Introduction; Part I. Developing the Analytical Framework and Contextualizing the Phenomenon: 1. Globalization and internationalizlƒ­