Multinational Business Review
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Board independence and firm internationalization: a meta-analysis
Ettore Spadafora, Kwabena Aboah Addo, Tatiana Kostova, Makafui Kwame Kumodzie-Dussey, Ezekiel Leo, Valentina Marano, Marc van EssenDespite agency theory and resource dependence theory suggesting that – albeit through different mechanisms – board independence positively influences firm…
Industry globalization: construct, measurement and variation across industries
Rakesh B. Sambharya, Farok J. Contractor, Abdul A. RasheedThe purpose of this paper is to identify some of the major issues relating to the conceptualization and operationalization of industry globalization.
A bibliometric analysis and future research opportunities in Multinational Business Review
Rajesh Jain, Chang Hoon Oh, Daniel ShapiroThis paper aims to evaluate the past contributions of Multinational Business Review (MBR), identify research gaps and opportunities and provide a research agenda that…
Foreign and domestic multinationals’ linkages in advanced, small open economies: do foreignness, regional origin and technological capability matter?
Joanna Scott-Kennel, Axèle Giroud, Iiris SaittakariInternational business theory suggests that multinational enterprises (MNEs) seek to internalise resources embedded in local firms to complement their own through…
Formal institutions, type of diversification and the diversification – performance relationship: a meta-analysis
Peter Tashman, Ettore Spadafora, Dominik Pascal Manfred WagnerThe authors meta-analyze research on the diversification–performance relationship to empirically establish the impact of home-country formal institutional quality on this…
Politics, rumors and identity: how does a domestic firm challenge an MNE in the non-market environment amidst home–host political hostility?
Cheng-Hua TzengPrior studies of competitive dynamics in emerging economies restricted their attention to how the multinational enterprise (MNE) initiates actions against the domestic…
The impact of foreign firm ownership on local renewal activities
Martin Henning, Ramsin YakobThe purpose of this study is to investigate how an increasingly intertwined international geography of ownership affects renewal activities and processes, including…
Productivity gap and expatriate utilization
Sooyoung Lee, Unjung Whang, Sihoon Nahm, Chang Hoon OhThis paper aims to investigate how the gap between a multinational enterprise’s (MNE) productivity and that of its competitor determines the utilization of expatriate…
Prevalence of the born-global phenomenon in different countries: an integrated perspective
Carlos-Javier Prieto-Sánchez, Fernando MerinoThe main purpose of this study is to analyze how factors such as innovation, entrepreneurial spirit and motivation, as well as various economic and environmental factors…
CEO polychronicity and SME internationalization
Arpita Agnihotri, Saurabh BhattacharyaThis study, leveraging the upper echelon and social network theories, aims to explore the association between chief executive officers (CEO’s) polychronicity and small and…
Overcoming institutional challenges in cross-border acquisitions: how home- and host-country acquisition experiences shorten the deal completion phase
Abrahim Soleimani, K. Michelle YangDrawing on the institutional theory and organizational learning literature, the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between prior acquisition…
Subsidiaries’ behavioural responses to volatile local contexts in emerging African markets: evidence from Nigeria
Akiebe Humphrey Ahworegba, Myropi Garri, Christophe EstayThis paper aims to explore subsidiaries’ behavioural responses to volatile institutional pressures in the local context of the emerging Nigerian market.
Litigations with the home State and internationalization
Laura Fernàndez-Méndez, Esteban García-Canal, Raquel García-GarcíaThis paper aims to investigate whether Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) can be driven by the creative compliance knowledge that firms gather in their home country through…
Are Latin American business groups different? An exploratory international political economy perspective
Michael Carney, Saul Estrin, Zhixiang Liang, Daniel ShapiroThis study aims to advance an international political economy (IPE) perspective that geo-political events can have long-lasting imprint effects on countries and their…
The role of subsidiary dual embeddedness and absorptive capacity in a transition economy
Mehdi Rasouli Ghahroudi, Seyed Hossein Chabok, Kieran M. ConroyThis study aims to focus on dual embeddedness as an important channel through which foreign subsidiaries access and share valuable and idiosyncratic knowledge within the…
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- Dr Chang Hoon Oh
- Dr Daniel Shapiro