World investment witnessed a pattern of emerging countries MNEs becoming significant players in the global market. Despite of entering the global market at later stage, these firms manage to depict remarkable present. Their acceleration in the international expansion has changed the pattern of internationalization that have been discussed by scholars. The speed of accelaration in their internationalization caused them to springboard to ensure global participation contribute to the development of capabilities and competitiveness. This paper discusses the springboard perspectives view that has become one of the theoretic lens to analyze emerging market multinationals in the past decade. This study takes place in Malaysian MNEs as one of the emerging countries.
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To Cite this Article: Badrolhisham, N., Hussein, H. S., & Ghazali, M. F. (2019). Foreign Direct Investment Outflows of Emerging Countries Mnes: Case of Malaysia. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 9(1), 868–880.
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