Multinational Business Review: Volume 24 Issue 3

Drivers of SMEs’ exporting activity: a review and a research agenda

Barbara Francioni, Alessandro Pagano, Davide Castellani

The purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic and updated assessment of studies on key exporting stimuli for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and to propose a research…

Universities as multinational enterprises? The multinational university analyzed through the eclectic paradigm

Jose Guimon

The aim of this paper is to examine the emergence of multinational universities through the lens of Dunning’s eclectic paradigm.

Intensity and diversity of internationalization among small and medium-sized exporters in China

Lancy Mac, Felicitas Evangelista

This study aims to gauge the interactive effect of export intensity and diversity on export performance among exporters in an emerging economy and explore the moderating effect of…

How weaknesses in home country location advantages can constrain EMNE growth: The example of India

Rajneesh Narula, Tiju Prasad Kodiyat

This paper aims to discuss the opportunities and limitations that the location-specific advantages of the home country represent for infant multinational enterprises (MNEs). The…

Control mechanisms of MNEs: an empirical study

Satwinder Singh, Geoffrey Wood, Jaithen Alharbi, Tamer K. Darwish

This purpose of this paper is to explore variations in the extent of control mechanisms, according to country of origin and organizational characteristics, in a challenging…