Understanding the Rise of the Asian Multinational Corporations: Organizational Competence and Innovativeness in Business Culture

Asian multinational corporations (MNCs) have been a primary driver of the world region’s economic rise. Their emergence brings fresh air and new challenges to the global economic order. Key to their success is a distinct form of business culture and organizational strategy, which the existing scholarship has yet to address. This project aims to develop a theoretical model to understand and explain this critical infrastructural dimension of Asian MNCs. This understanding is crucial as the Canadian businesses continue to compete and collaborate with said firms at home and abroad. The project contributes to a wide range of ongoing initiatives of Canada-Asia engagement at the Cansbridge Fellowship Foundation. Through multi-site field research, we will add a new transnational, real-world perspective to the Cansbridge’s intellectual outlook. The project will also contribute raw data to the Cansbridge database on Asian MNCs’ organizational behavior and business cultures, which will be made available to the Canadian business community.

Faculty Supervisor:

Felipe Restrepo;Yves Tiberghien;Nick Mosey;Brenda Brouwer;Kevin Deluzio;Tony Briggs;Christopher Yip;Shahram Yousefi;Benoit Boulet;Susan Bartels;Kejia Zhu;Jennifter Stearns;Shyam Venkatesan;Klaus Meyer;Plinio Pelegrini Morita;Carol Jaeger

Student:

Partner:

Cansbridge Fellowship

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology; Sustainability & the Environment; Public Service, Policy, and Governance

University:

McGill University; McMaster University; Queen's University; The University of British Columbia; The University of Western Ontario; University of Alberta; University of Toronto; University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate