Current Volume 9
Abstract
Multi-national corporations aren’t just navigating one environment, they operate across a whole spectrum of different countries, laws, cultures, and stakeholders. Getting governance right in these settings means leaders need to think beyond old school, top-down systems. This journal, dives into practical leadership strategies, that push Multi-National Corporations, toward better governance, pulling ideas from strategic management, international business, corporate governance, and leadership studies. The core argument? Real multi-national corporations, governance is set on four key leadership strategies which are ethical pluralism, network orchestration, institutional entrepreneurship, and contextual ambidexterity. The ability of leaders handling conflicting moral and legal norms, without falling into the traps of pushing their own ethics or just accepting everything is as a result of ethical pluralism. Network orchestration sees leaders building semi-autonomous subsidiaries, teaming up with outside partners, and rallying everyone around shared governance standards. Institutional entrepreneurship puts leaders in the role of shaping, and not just following the rules or the norms, in their new environments. The paper pushes the idea that leadership is not just about who sits where, it is a strategic force, built into the fabric of multinational corporations. In the end, the paper lays out what these approaches mean, for things like board structure, executive training, and future studies on governance, treating leadership as a hands-on process, and not just a structural formality.
Keywords
Multi-National Corporations, Corporate Governance, Leadership Strategy, Contextual Ambidexterity, Ethical Pluralism, Network Orchestration, Institutional Entrepreneurship, Global Local Tension
Citations
IRE Journals:
Damian Chibuikem Abraham "Governance in Multi-National Firms: The Strategic Managerial Approaches" Iconic Research And Engineering Journals Volume 9 Issue 11 2026 Page 3253-3256 https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV9I11-1717844
IEEE:
Damian Chibuikem Abraham
"Governance in Multi-National Firms: The Strategic Managerial Approaches" Iconic Research And Engineering Journals, 9(11) https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV9I11-1717844
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