While there are several theoretical reasons to expect foreign firms to also transfer best-practice policies toward women, scarcely any research studies the impact of foreign direct investment and MNEs on promoting women’s empowerment around the world. To fill this gap, this special issue...

Digitalisation has become a central theme in the current economic and policy debate. Large digital and tech multinational enterprises (MNEs) are gaining an outsized role in the global economy. Also, the adoption of advanced digital technologies across all industries is fundamentally changing...