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Emerging MNEs Successfully Operating in International Markets

2016; Routledge; Linguagem: Inglês

10.4018/978-1-5225-0276-0.ch008

2327-3518

Osmar Hazael Zavaleta-Vazquez, Jorge Alberto Wise-Lozano,

Global Trade and Competitiveness

The purpose of this chapter is to describe the most important theories that explain the possible motivations of some enterprises to compete in the international arena. Besides describing and summarizing the internationalization theories of an enterprise, the cases of some Mexican firms, which have grown successfully internationally, will be presented and compared with all the elements established in the different theories. This chapter starts by describing the different characteristics of firms competing in international markets. After that, the most important theories of MNEs are explored. The chapter ends with the discussion of the internationalization process followed by CEMEX, GRUMA and TELMEX (America Movil), Mexican enterprises that have successfully grown in the international spectrum.