International Journal of Emerging Markets: Volume 11 Issue 4

Home government influence on Russian MNEs: balancing control against interest

Andrei Panibratov

The purpose of this paper is to provide a better understanding of how the government influences the internationalization of emerging MNEs and, more specifically, answer the…

The influence of institutional factors on MNC’s triple bottom-line reporting: A focus on African emerging markets (AEMs)

Boris Urban, Rutendo Hwindingwi

Recognising the rapid institutional changes multinational corporations (MNCs) face in emerging markets, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of various…

Institutional complexity and the strategic behaviors of SMEs in transitional environments

Yuan Ding, Véronique Malleret, S. Ramakrishna Velamuri

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the literature on institutional complexity by highlighting patterns of strategic behaviors of SMEs in institutional environments…

Matching organizational frame of reference and business strategy with contemporary marketing practices: Evidence from Arab world

Allam Abu Farha

The purpose of this paper is to investigate diversity of marketing practices of firms operating in the same environment, by identifying how management perception and business…

The impact of banking concentration on firm leverage in emerging markets

Farzin Abadi, A.N. Bany-Ariffin, Ryszard Kokoszczynski, W.N.W. Azman-Saini

The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of banking concentration on firm leverage in 21 major emerging countries from different geographical regions, controlling for…

The impact of financial development on economic growth: Evidence from SAARC countries

Madhu Sehrawat, A.K. Giri

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possible co-integration and the direction of causality between financial development and economic growth in South-Asian Association…

Post-crisis bank behavior: lessons from Mercosur

Montfort Mlachila, Sarah Sanya

The purpose of this paper is to answer one important question: in the aftermath of a systemic banking crisis, can the expected deviations in credit supply, liquidity, and other…

Productivity, ownership and firm growth: evidence from Indian banks

Saibal Ghosh

The relation between size and growth in banking firms in emerging economies has not been adequately addressed in the literature. By employing data for 1992-2014, the purpose of…

Suitability of the high performance organization framework to Egyptian ICT companies

André de Waal, Dalia S.F. Habil, Robert Goedegebuure

The purpose of this paper is to deal with the need for Egyptian ICT companies to adopt high performance practices in order to be able to contribute more to the development of…

Firm and country specific determinants of capital structure in Sub Saharan Africa

Chimwemwe Chipeta, Chera Deressa

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of firm- and country-specific factors on the dynamics of capital structure for a new data set of firms in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The joint effect of investment motives and institutional context on Russian international acquisitions

Desislava Dikova, Andrei Panibratov, Anna Veselova, Lyubov Ermolaeva

The purpose of this paper is to advance knowledge about factors that influence the location of Russian foreign direct investments. In particular, it focusses on the role of…

Outward FDI from small developing economies: Firm level strategies and home-country effects

Ramon Padilla-Perez, Caroline Gomes Nogueira

Foreign direct investment (FDI) from developing economies has increased sharply since the beginning of the 2000s. While most investment flows correspond to firms from large…

Dynamic interactions between stock markets and the real economy: Evidence from emerging markets

Nikiforos T. Laopodis, Andreas Papastamou

The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the relationship between a country’s aggregate stock market and general economic development for 14 emerging economies for the period…