How do state-owned multinational enterprises behave abroad?

This symposium is the result of a call for papers organised to answer a core question: How do state-owned multinational enterprises (SOMNEs) behave once they internationalise, that is, go “abroad”? To organise the research, papers used the FESPET framework to analyse SOMNE behaviour abroad from the Financial, Environmental, Social, Political Economy and Technology perspectives. The contributions to this project fill an important gap in the literature with the aim of improving our understanding on the consequences of the internationalisation of State-Owned Enterprises from key, selected countries that are important but currently under-researched: Brazil, India and Russia.