STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIVE CHARACTER OF THE DIPLOMA THESIS
I, a 4th – year student of the Graduate School of Management of SPbU of the bachelor's program of the faculty 38.03.02 "Management" (direction “International management”, group №18.Б07) Ekaterina Sorokina, confirm that my diploma thesis does not contain elements of plagiarism. All direct borrowings from printed and electronic sources, as well as from previously defended course and final qualification papers, candidate and doctoral dissertations, have appropriate references. I am familiar with the educational process regulations at the Institute of Graduate School of Management of St. Petersburg state University, according to which the detection of plagiarism (direct borrowings from other sources without appropriate references) is the basis for grading "poor" for the diploma thesis. _________Sorokina E.E.____    _______03.06.2022_______ (signature of the student with transcript)(date)  TABLE OF CONTENT TOC \o "1-3" \h \z \uSTATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIVE CHARACTER OF THE DIPLOMA THESIS PAGEREF _Toc105187654 \h 2 INTRODUCTION PAGEREF _Toc105187655 \h 5 CHAPTER 1: THEORETICAL PART PAGEREF _Toc105187656 \h 8 MNE strategies PAGEREF _Toc105187657 \h 8 Bartlett and Ghoshal typology of MNE’s strategies PAGEREF _Toc105187658 \h 8 The role of subsidiaries in MNE strategies PAGEREF _Toc105187659 \h 9 The conceptual framework for MNE strategies and the role of subsidiary PAGEREF _Toc105187660 \h 13 Costs of doing business abroad PAGEREF _Toc105187661 \h 15 Liability of foreignness PAGEREF _Toc105187662 \h 17 Country of Origin as the part of LOF PAGEREF _Toc105187663 \h 19 LOF learning PAGEREF _Toc105187664 \h 19 Liability of multinationals PAGEREF _Toc105187665 \h 21 CDBA framework PAGEREF _Toc105187666 \h 22 Costs of doing business abroad and crisis PAGEREF _Toc105187667 \h 23 The conceptual framework of CDBA PAGEREF _Toc105187668 \h 25 Results of the theoretical part PAGEREF _Toc105187669 \h 26 CHAPTER 2: EMPIRICAL PART PAGEREF _Toc105187670 \h 28 Methodology PAGEREF _Toc105187671 \h 28 Research method PAGEREF _Toc105187672 \h 28 Case selection PAGEREF _Toc105187673 \h 28 Sampling and its relevance PAGEREF _Toc105187674 \h 29 Context PAGEREF _Toc105187675 \h 31 Data collection PAGEREF _Toc105187676 \h 32 Data analysis PAGEREF _Toc105187677 \h 34 Results PAGEREF _Toc105187678 \h 35 RMA Pipeline Equipment PAGEREF _Toc105187679 \h 35 Kastamonu Entegre PAGEREF _Toc105187680 \h 42 Arla Foods PAGEREF _Toc105187681 \h 48 Discussion of the results PAGEREF _Toc105187682 \h 53 CHAPTER 3: CONCLUSION PAGEREF _Toc105187683 \h 59 Conclusion PAGEREF _Toc105187684 \h 59 Theoretical implications PAGEREF _Toc105187685 \h 60 Practical implications PAGEREF _Toc105187686 \h 61 Limitations of the research PAGEREF _Toc105187687 \h 61 Recommendations for the future study PAGEREF _Toc105187688 \h 61 LIST OF REFERENCES PAGEREF _Toc105187689 \h 63 APPENDIX PAGEREF _Toc105187690 \h 72 
Ekaterina Sorokina, a 4th – year student of the Graduate School of Management of St. Petersburg state University, confirm that my diploma thesis does not contain elements of plagiarism. All direct borrowings from printed and electronic sources, as well as from previous defended course and final qualification papers, candidate and doctoral dissertations, have appropriate references. I am familiar with the educational process regulations at the Institute of Graduate School of Management of St. Petersburg state University, according to which the detection of plagiarism (direct borrowings from other sources without appropriate references) is the basis for grading "poor" for the diploma thesis.