Volume 18, 2007
Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting
Jennifer Oetzel, Kathleen A. Getz, Stephen Ladek
Pages 394-399
Business and Violent Conflict
The purpose of this paper is to examine how multinational enterprises and their subsidiaries (MNEs) can respond to violent conflict in the host countries where they operate, and how the characteristics of the conflict affect the types of intervention strategies that MNEs may adopt. Drawing on insights from the research on conflict resolution and the risk that violent conflict poses to the firm, we develop a framework and several propositions that provide guidance to MNEs confronting violent conflict with respect to existing projects or facilities.