Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 07/2011

Emerging challengers in knowledge-based industries? The case of Indian pharmaceutical multinationals

Gert Bruche

July 2011

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

Abstract

The growth of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from developing countries and of a new generation of “emerging multinational enterprises” (EMNEs) has stimulated a flurry of publications. EMNEs have been portrayed as on their way to adulthood, latecomers that leapfrog into advanced positions, emerging giants, and challengers of conventional multinational enterprises (MNEs) from advanced economies.