Business politics as a causal mechanism shaping uneven regional development across Romania’s automotive industry
研究了跨国公司与东道国行为体之间的谈判机制如何导致不同区域的经济差异，以罗马尼亚汽车产业中两家来自不同母国背景的领先企业为例。
Abstract We develop and deploy a business politics lens to examine the mechanisms and processes of negotiation through which multinational enterprises (MNEs) and various host country actors interact, leading to different regional trajectories of economic development. We assess two contrasting lead firms from differing home country contexts investing in the automotive industry in Romania, operating in two regions with distinct historical-spatial industrial organization and economic development. We advance a contribution on business politics as dynamic, relational, multi-scalar, and influenced by varied conjunctural factors—historical, geographical, political, institutional, and firm-driven—exposing how MNEs and territorial actors co-shape distinct processes of international economic (dis)integration.