We are conducting a research on how a multinational company behaves in order to design and build a new factory. We are particularly interested in journal articles that explored similar situations, also analysing the role of external stakeholders.
A lot of the traditional business literature examines this topic from perspective of quantitative operations research, logisticis, supply chain management and so on. Strategic management literature on multi-national corporation development often considers external stakeholders within the macro-environmental factors that affect business strategies such as political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal forces.
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Article The investment location decisions in the steel industry
The recent mining boom has led to an increased focus on the establishment of new mining operations, and how the companies address stakeholders etc. See, for instance, papers in journals such as Resources Policy (Elsevier).
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