Arab gulf emerging multinationals : UAE corporations a retrospective case study

Abstract EN

This study aims at clarifying the development path chosen by Gulf multinationals through the case and lenses of UAE emerging multinationals.

The study's findings show that UAE new multinationals operating across borders and time zones and integrating diverse management teams and corporate governance practices have significantly benefited from market conditions and leadership in their home economies that encouraged local monopolies, and sheltered them from competition with old multinational corporations, while allowing them to gain scale and experience.

In this study, we relied on the qualitative methodology that relies on analyzing data generated through focus groups and interviews of UAE emerging multinationals' senior executives.

The importance of this study is to provide a historical contextual evaluation of a development path these emerging multinationals' have particularly opted for to become a new player in the internationalization arena during the last decade.

______________________________________________________________________________Key words: UAE Emerging Multinationals; Gulf Corporations; Globalization.

JEL Classification Codes: M1- M16- O53.

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