This volume examines how emerging technologies can help resolve the tension between multinational enterprise activity, environmental sustainability, and rising global inequality. Featuring international, multidisciplinary research, the collected chapters contribute to ongoing interdisciplinary and intercultural discourse regarding the societal impact of business and emerging technologies. Together, the chapters interrogate the Multinational Enterprises-Inequality Paradox, offering conceptual frameworks, empirical evidence, and policy-relevant insights into sustainable innovation, climate governance, and equitable development. This book will appeal to researchers, graduate students, and practitioners in international business, development economics, sustainability studies, and public policy, as well as policymakers seeking evidence-based strategies for harnessing emerging technologies to reduce global inequality.

João Bento, PhD in Economics, is a senior lecturer in economics at Lisbon Accounting and Business School (ISCAL), Polytechnic University of Lisbon (IPL). He is also a member of the Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies (GOVCOPP) research unit at the University of Aveiro (UA). He has more than 20 years of experience in empirical research, academic knowledge, and expertise in economics. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Reading, UK.

Miguel M. Torres, PhD in Economics, is a Lecturer in International Business at Kent Business School (KBS). His career includes consulting services to the European Commission and the World Bank, as well as applied research and teaching roles at Leeds, Milano, Aveiro, KU Leuven, and Uppsala universities. He has also held appointments at the University Federal of Goiás, IF Goiano, and the University Católica of Portugal. He has held multiple visiting professorships and is an INSOL International and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow. His research focuses in the intersection of international business, public policy and strategic management, focusing on multinational management models, corporate political risk, and negotiation strategies, particularly emphasising the complexities of cross-border restructuring and foreign direct investment drivers using cross-sectional, time-series, and panel data approaches. His work has been published in the Public Administration, International Business Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Multinational Business Review, Theory, Culture & Society, Journal of Economic Methodology, International Insolvency Review, PLOS One, and AIB Insights. He co-edited the books "Dead Firms: Causes and Effects of Cross-Border Corporate Insolvency" (Emerald, 2017) and "Global Perspectives on Climate Change, Inequality, and Multinational Corporations" (Springer, 2025).