- Title
- Political risk and international business strategies of multinational corporations in emerging economies: a case study of General Electric in Nigeria
- Creator
- Gibiri, Aloaye David
- Subject
- General Electric, Nigeria, Business strategies, Emerging economies
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Thesis
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10004/100697, vital:4579, valet-20180405-104652
- Description
- General Electric (GE) is the largest industrial multinational corporation and one of the world’s largest and profitable organisations with operations in over 180 countries. Globalisation has had positive effects on multinational corporations through increased revenue from sales of products and services to new markets and also to host countries through the creation of jobs and the inflow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), but there are associated risks that follow globalisation, and one which forms the focal point of this research paper is political risk. This instability tends to be more prominent in countries with more than one ethnic nationality where competing ideologies battle for political control (Hill 2014) and understanding and managing such risks is crucial for companies with large asset base (erm.nscu.edu 2006). GE’s presence in most African markets regardless of the level of political risk is because it has determined that the rewards of operations outweigh the risk and so using a case study design, this research paper aims to explain how political risks affect the operations of GE in a developing nation (Nigeria) and the strategies adopted by GE in responding to and mitigating these risks
- Contributor
- Owens, Martin
- Publisher
- Faculty of Management and Law, International Business
- Language
- EN
- Relation
- No
- Rights
- © 2018 University of Bradford. All rights reserved
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