Multinational Business Review publishes high-quality research on the nature and impact of the multinational enterprise (MNE) and the nature and evolution of international business strategies.

Aims and scope

Multinational Business Review (MBR) publishes high-quality and innovative peer-review research on the strategy, organization and performance of multinational enterprise (MNE), international business history, geography of international business, and the impact of international business on economic growth and development.

The journal encourages papers that are cross-disciplinary in nature, and that address new and important issues in international business. Multinational Business Review also promotes research on under-represented regions such as Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and South East Asia and their MNEs, as well as under-studied topics such as the role of trade, investment and other public policies.

Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

International strategies of multinationals and their challenges
The nature of emerging market multinationals
Social, environmental and political risk
Innovation and entrepreneurship in an international context
Corporate governance and ownership
The role of multilateral institutions
The title seeks strong conceptual studies, contributing to the advancement of theories and frameworks, and sound empirical work, whether qualitative or quantitative, suggesting managerial, economic or government policy recommendations.

The journal encourages replication studies that contribute to our understanding of the reliability and validity of current knowledge. Finally, Multinational Business Review welcomes proposals for perspectives pieces that offer critical and challenging viewpoints; surveys of the literature particularly those that use new and innovative bibliometric methods; and special issues on topics of relevance to Multinational Business Review