Acknowledgments

Prior to publishing this volume, the editors hosted a two-day conference (September 27–28, 2014) on the topic of Emerging Markets and Multinational Enterprises at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. The conference was co-sponsored by the Center for Emerging Markets at Northeastern University, the Center for International Business Studies at Texas A&M University, and Emerald Group Publishing.

The conference gave the opportunity to the authors to present, refine, and integrate their ideas. The editors would like to thank all the conference participants – authors, discussants, guest speakers, and attendants – for their valuable time and contributions, which greatly enhanced the quality of the volume. We extend our special thanks to Dean Hugh Courtney, Dean of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business for hosting the conference; Ravi Ramamurti, Sheila Puffer, and Dan McCarthy for their time and stimulating contributions as guest speakers; and Joseph A. Clougherty, Denise Dunlap, Wenxin Guo, Kiattichai Kalasin, Grigorios Livanis, Tatiana S. Manolova, Valentina Marano, and Jay Mulki, for their invigorating feedback as discussants of the presented papers.

Elitsa R. Banalieva and Laszlo Tihanyi extend their gratitude to Ravi Ramamurti, Director of the Center for Emerging Markets at Northeastern University, and Julian Gaspar, Executive Director of the Center for International Business Studies at Texas A&M University, for their support for the conference and volume and to Anne Benware and Tianyuan Bai for their administrative help with the conference. Elitsa R. Banalieva also gratefully acknowledges the support from the Gary Gregg Fellowship. She would like to dedicate this volume to her late dissertation advisor, Professor Alan Rugman, whose kindness and intellectual rigor inspired much of her own research.