Research

SFU Beedie professor Rosalie Tung selected as next Editor-in-Chief of prestigious international business journal

Mar 8, 2022

Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business Professor Rosalie Tung has been selected to serve as the next Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS). The only international business journal to be included in both the Financial Times journals list as well as the UT Dallas list of leading business journals, JIBS is the top-ranked journal in the field of international business. The announcement comes from the Executive Board of the Academy of […]

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See you in court: Smartphone giants’ patent litigation strategies and outcomes

Sep 12, 2014

In recent years, two titans of the smartphone industry – Apple and Samsung – have found themselves locked in courtroom battles. New research suggests that these disputes, which have resulted in extensive media coverage, are little more than show, and that rather than spending their time pursuing litigation against one another, the opponents would be better served learning to co-operate. The study, by Drs. Deli Yang of Trinity University, and Maho Sonmez of UTSA, San […]

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Lifting the resource curse: Transparency of multinational enterprises

Sep 12, 2014

Countries blessed with abundant petroleum resources are often burdened by weak government and economic performance – a phenomenon known as the resource curse – and experts see the need for greater transparency. Recent regulatory initiatives call for increased multinational enterprise (MNE) transparency. Yet about 75 per cent of the world’s oil reserves are controlled by state-owned enterprises (SOEs), many of which are not subject to the transparency requirements that come with being listed on a […]

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Lost in translation: Language and reverse knowledge transfer in multinational corporations

Sep 12, 2014

One of the pleasures of travel is listening to the sound of exotic languages in foreign places. But for a multinational corporation (MNC) setting up shop overseas, linguistic differences can bring a host of problems that have the potential to seriously impact performance.

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Understanding Sovereign Wealth Funds Essential, researchers say

Sep 12, 2014

Consider the economic potential – and political power – that $5.5-trillion of the global economy can generate. It exists, quietly, and the western banking system can attest to it. During the 2008 financial crisis, the world’s faltering economy was recapitalized by $40-billion in less than four months.

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Increased profits from tax havens don’t nurture R&D in multinational enterprises

Sep 12, 2014

It’s an almost-unfathomable figure: US$21 trillion to US $32 trillion – nearly half of the globe’s annual GDP of $72 trillion – that is estimated by the Tax Justice Network to have been secretly squirrelled away by multinational enterprises (MNEs) in tax havens. That’s money that should, but isn’t, going into the tax coffers of nations like Canada.

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How tax policy and corruption impact businesses

Sep 12, 2014

Corruption impacts the business environment of a country with surprisingly varying outcomes, depending on the efficiency of the tax policy administration and regulatory environment, new research reveals.

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