International Business Review

1993 - 2025

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Volume 34, issue 6, 2025

Does deglobalization imply the end of global supply chains?

Enver Yücesan

Ownership choices of emerging market micromultinationals (mMNEs) under uncertainty: A real option approach

Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos, Rose Narooz and Junzhe Ji

Dodging expropriation? The role of cash holdings as a firm-level driver of risky FDI location choices

Timothy King, Tiago Loncan and Zaheer Khan

The company you keep: Syndicate formation in venture capitalists’ cross-border investments

Harald Kollmann, Jakob Müllner and Jonas Puck

The evolution of stigmas facing Chinese MNEs abroad: From latecomer stigma to geopolitical stigma

Fengkai Zhou, Prud’homme, Dan and Haijian Liu

Beyond the "eye of the storm": A processual and multi-layered approach to global value chain resilience

Federica Sacco, Giovanna Magnani and Pietro Previtali

Institutional quality and investment disputes in emerging and frontier economies

Ricardo E. Buitrago R.

Resilience of GVC suppliers in politically unstable regions: The roles of governance and trust

Umair Shafi Choksy, Yusuf Kurt, Ismail Gölgeci, Zaheer Khan, Saqib Shamim and Maaha Jawad

Cross-country evidence of e-commerce SME internationalization and the role of policy

Yama Temouri, Geoffrey Wood, Vijay Pereira, Krista B. Lewellyn and Dimitrios Reppas

Corporate ownership types and internationalization strategies: The moderating role of home country capitalism

Israa Kishk and Rekha Rao-Nicholson

Navigating turbulent waters: A literature review of socio-political risks and multinational enterprises’ nonmarket strategies

Yi Shen, Axèle Giroud and Xia Han

Corporate governance, finance, and global strategy

Konstantinos Bozos, Igor Filatotchev and Marc Goergen

Technological content and institutional quality of FDI: Investigating the effects on the environment in Brazil

Eduardo Polloni-Silva, Rosina Moreno and Herick Fernando Moralles

Hybrid ownership and internationalization of emerging market firms: An institution-based view

Tega D. Ogbuigwe, Hongzhi Gao, Eldrede Kahiya and Richa Chugh

Effects of institutional (in)congruence between home and host countries on the ownership level of cross-border M&As

Yafei Hu and Yuanxu Li

Follow the mind or the heart? Asymmetric influences of affective versus cognitive country images on customer-service provider relationships

Lin Ma and Xuemei Bian

International intensity, regional dispersion, and institutional distance: How a multinational configuration shapes capital structure

Samia Belaounia and Ghassen Bouslama

Navigating liabilities of foreignness in weak and challenging institutional environments: Strategies of established multinational enterprise subsidiaries in Cameroon

Young Hoon An

Volume 34, issue 5, 2025

The myths of successful expatriation: Does higher emotional intelligence lead to better cultural intelligence?

Yuran Li, Ying Zhang and Shanshi Liu

Cross-border E-commerce, platform economy, and export product quality

Fei Wang and Yanping Zhou

Venture firms’ internationalization: The case of emerging challengers

Taewoo Roh, Shufeng Xiao, Pervez N. Ghauri, Byung Il Park and Soo Jung Oh

Women’s representation on boards, diversity practices, and internationalization: Evidence from greenfield investment

Yeongsu Anthony Kim and María del Carmen Triana

The role of SME owner-managers’ leadership self-efficacy, cultural intelligence and emotional intelligence in foreign market entry mode

Avaz Mammadov and Andreas Wald

Unveiling the influence of host-country religiosity on the completion of cross-border merger and acquisition deals

Zhigang Zuo, Wenquan Zheng, Chengqi Wang, Jiaoyue Su and Malay N. Desai

International relations and foreign divestment of multinational enterprises

Sihong Wu, Di Fan and Yiyi Su

Configurations of weight, voice and distance and headquarters positive attention: Weight matters most

Rian Drogendijk, Hammad ul Haq and Desirée Blankenburg Holm

Cultural dimensions and corporate controversies: The moderating role of corporate governance

Ranjan DasGupta and Soumya Guha Deb

Digital standardization vs. adaptation: Mitigating the liability of outsidership – A literature review

Keith D. Brouthers, Christine Ascencio, Mamoun Benmamoun and Hadi Alhorr

Volume 34, issue 4, 2025

Modeling serendipity in opportunity search by born-global firms: Performance implications from a computer simulation of evolutionary drift using NKC methodology

Sokol Celo, Mark Lehrer and Dmitry Zinoviev

Compared to whom? Performance feedback and foreign divestment of MNEs

Dam Yoo and Jon J. Moon

How do virtual and relational ties affect international opportunity realization for emerging market born-global firms? A contingency model

Jean, Ruey-Jer “Bryan”, Daekwan Kim, Erin Cavusgil, Hayashi Tsuteaki and Arto Ojala

Returnee entrepreneurs’ international experience: Effects on entrepreneurial orientation and speed of internationalization

Xinrui Liu, Michael Mayer and Dimo Dimov

Unpacking global digital competence in the contemporary international venture

Fernanda Cahen, Felipe Borini, Charles Dhanaraj and Rafael Morais

Born globals, international new ventures, and international entrepreneurship: Reflections and a research agenda

Gary Knight, Zaheer Khan and Niina Nummela

Power dynamics, cooperation, and performance in exporter-importer relationships: The moderating role of partner incompatibility and emotion regulation

Leonidas C. Leonidou, Bilge Aykol, Frode Nilssen and Paul Christodoulides

Performance feedback and international business research: A review and future directions

Andrea Martínez-Noya and Ana Valdés-Llaneza

Cross-border digital platforms and discretionary adaptation strategy of exporters in emerging markets: The capability building perspective

Feifei Liu, Jie Gao and Yu Jia

Innovate or exploit? Unveiling the international entrepreneurial odyssey through the lens of status quo bias

Anisur R. Faroque, Anwar Sadat Shimul, Hangjun Xu, Olli Kuivalainen, Feisal Murshed and Sanna Sundqvist

The antecedents and consequences of coopetition within international joint ventures: Evidence from China

Jason Lu Jin, Xiaopeng Lai, Liwen Wang and Kunyi Wang

What is the future of regional multinational enterprises?

Alain Verbeke, Chang Hoon Oh and Rajesh Jain

Inter-partner differences in globalization exposure and national culture and IJV termination: A comparison of emerging versus developed market host countries

M. Berk Talay, M. Billur Akdeniz, José-Mauricio Galli Geleilate and William Newburry

Purpose versus profit: How institutions shape entrepreneurial success across countries

Stephan Gerschewski, Sonja Kristin Franzke, Fabian Jintae Froese and Gary Knight

Breaking the glass ceiling: The home-host diffusion of gender-equal practice in multinational corporations (MNCs)

Jing-Lin Duanmu

When can resistance to a standardization policy result in destandardization? The case of corporate language implementation

Jakob Lauring, Charlotte Jonasson and Guro Refsum Sanden

Organizational legitimacy as a core concept for theorizing on business in emerging economies

Klaus E. Meyer and Caleb H. Tse

Within-group differences: Differentiated Chinese expatriate-HCN interactions and the influence of human resource management practices

Beiting He, Guangyi Xu and Xinran Gu

A configurational analysis of internationalization, absorptive capacity, and resource-based factors explaining firms’ innovation performance

Joan Freixanet and Ryan Federo

Cross-border innovation for global value chain orchestration

Ekaterina Turkina, Ari Van Assche and Ram Mudambi

Breaking trust? International partnership exit and learning about opportunities

Joanne Wright, Antje Fiedler and Benjamin P. Fath

Is bottom-of-the-pyramid orientation a new reason for product imitation in emerging markets?

Lianyong Xu, Zelong Wei, Paike Xie, Eric W.T. Ngai and Wengao Huang

Financial constraints, institutional quality and import trade flows: An empirical investigation on Italian manufacturing SMEs

G. Falavigna, R. Ippoliti and Giovanni Ramello

The effect of distance on persuasion in international e-mail marketing campaigns

Peter Magnusson and Stanford A. Westjohn

Two decades of research on digitalization, entrepreneurship, and internationalization: What foundations do they provide for research on digital entrepreneurial internationalization?

Dr Sara Fraccastoro, Dr Heini Vanninen and Prof Mika Gabrielsson

Turning decision-making logic into international performance among SMEs: Revealing the importance of international entrepreneurial marketing

Man Yang, Peter Gabrielsson, Mika Gabrielsson and Seppo Pynnönen

Fragmentation in international business: A geographic-and-political perspective

Victor Cui, Xiaocong Tian and Rongjian Yu

Consequences of geographic separation of partners during expatriation: The moderating effects of trust and virtual communication

R.A.I.C. Karunarathne, Anna Katharina Bader, Fabian Jintae Froese and Margaret A. Shaffer

The effects of manager market human capital on learning from international failures in small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

Xinchun Wang, Annie Peng Cui, Liguo Liu and Lin Zhao

Unfair competition and export intensity of Latin American SMEs: The role of regulations

Sebastian Aparicio, Jorge Lengler, Roberta Aguzzoli, Carlos M.P. Sousa, Gabriel Benito and David Urbano

Volume 34, issue 3, 2025

The influence of environmental management system on outward foreign direct investment: Evidence from ISO 14001 certification in China

Jiayan Yan, Zhangfan Cao, Steven Xianglong Chen and Ziliang Deng

Platform-based multinational corporations (PMNCs):A research agenda in the field of international business

Zhengyao Kang, Hongwei Kou, Di Zhou, Xinwei Shi, Ronaldo Parente and Ke Rong

Unveiling the power of supplier-country image on B2B customers' perceptions: Beyond the product’s beauty

Cátia Fernandes Crespo, Nuno Fernandes Crespo and Susana C. Silva

Pursuing headquarters’ attention: Foreign subsidiaries’ strategic issue selling

Renato Souza-Santos, Jorge Carneiro and Ulf Andersson

Don’t stop believing: The manifestations of coopetition in export markets

James M. Crick and David Crick

Leadership development in the cross-cultural context of China: Who really cares?

Daniel Agerbech Petersen and Keith Goodall

Network effects of partial reshoring in the internationalization process

Daniel Pedroletti

Technology-seeking FDI policy change and local firm innovation

Pei Wang, Ziliang Deng, Zhan Wu and Vikas Kumar

Political affinity and opportunism in global supply chain: The mediating role of contractual and relational governance

Zhiwen Fan, Tao Wang, Zhongyi Han and Yu Jia

Internationalization and escapism: Government support as a pullback force for small and large enterprises

Ebru Ozturk-Kose, Dimitris Tsagdis and Alfredo Jiménez

Transnational gender equality: A framework for analysis and three prospective agendas for future IB research

Rory Donnelly, Gail Hebson and Sara Chaudry

Valuing ESG: How financial markets respond to corporate sustainability

Le Chau, Le Anh and Vo Duc

A self-anchoring view of forced migrants’ business performance in host countries

Eren Akkan, Burcin Hatipoglu and Kerem Gurses

Triple-loop springboarding and simulacrum enterprises: Financialization and new forms of emerging economy educational international businesses

Helen Haixia Hu, John Bryson and Jonathan V. Beaverstock

International marketing agility and cost leadership strategies of frontier emerging market exporters in advanced economy markets

Huda Khan, Zaheer Khan and Gary Knight

Volume 34, issue 2, 2025

Dynamic capability deployment: The roles of dominant logic and international entrepreneurial orientation

Yuan Gao, Siegfried P. Gudergan and Nidthida Lin

Configuring international entrepreneurial orientation and dynamic internationalization capability to predict international performance

Md Imtiaz Mostafiz, Farhad Uddin Ahmed, Janja Tardios, Paul Hughes and Shlomo Y. Tarba

Reputation, dynamic capabilities, and the global footprint of corporate venture capital programs

Sergey Anokhin, Fabian Eggers and Andrey Kretinin

MNEs engagement with environmental sustainability in an emerging economy: Do dynamic capabilities and entrepreneurial orientation matter?

Abderaouf Bouguerra, M. Selim Cakir, Tazeeb Rajwani, Kamel Mellahi and Ekrem Tatoglu

Post-entry internationalization of born globals: The role of dynamic capabilities in accelerating growth

Hongyi Yang and Maria-Cristina Stoian

Crossing the chasm: The role of dynamic managerial capabilities in the turning point of early internationalizing firms

Pierre-Louis Meuric

International entrepreneurship in innovative SMEs: Examining the connection between CEOs’ dynamic managerial capabilities, business model innovation and export performance

Joan Merín-Rodrigáñez, Joaquín Alegre and Àngels Dasí

Real options strategy and firm heterogeneity: Foreign multinational enterprises’ equity acquisition in Chinese international joint ventures

Xuelian Piao, Junmin Park and Chris Changwha Chung

Sharing economy companies’ internationalization: A business ecosystem strategy

Heidi Coral Thornton and Yue Zhao

Family business legitimacy and foreign subsidiary establishment mode choice: An institutional and mixed gamble approach

Jacqueline Lyons, Palitha Konara and Vikrant Shirodkar

How can global city attributes explain international strategic alliance formation?

Juliane Engsig, Bo B. Nielsen, Andry Ramaroson and Paul Chiambaretto

How institutional voids are experienced and enacted through social innovation initiatives by multinationals in emerging markets

Maximino Matus-Ruiz, Ayse Saka-Helmhout and Jorge Carillo

Reconciling the tension between contextualization and generalization in qualitative international business research

Eric W.K. Tsang and Asli M. Colpan

Entering dangerous territory: Why corporate investment is sometimes attracted to institutional voids

Vinit M. Desai

Towards a better understanding of the interrelationship between dynamic capabilities and international Entrepreneurship

Christos Pitelis, Catherine L. Wang, Mathew Hughes and Véronique Ambrosini

Volume 34, issue 1, 2025

Overly convenient falsehoods and inconvenient truths: Not what leaders thought they would learn

Nancy J. Adler

A potential paradigm shift in global mobility? The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

Rodrigo Mello, Amaya Erro-Garcés, Michael Dickmann and Chris Brewster

The application of HRM systems to enhance the innovation activities of foreign SMEs

Jane Menzies, Connie Zheng and Anthony McDonnell

Digital technology and global mobility: Narrative review and directions for future research

Jana Bucher, Mila Lazarova and Jürgen Deller

A multi-level systematic literature review of contextual influences on international career behaviors and directions for future research

Dana L. Ott and Alfred Presbitero

Control of subsidiary HRM Policies by Multi-national Corporate Headquarters: The Role of Institutional Differences and Labor Unions

Fenton-O′Creevy, Mark and Paul Gooderham

Intellectual property regimes and knowledge governance in MNEs: Expatriate staffing and R&D-manufacturing colocation

Jong Min Lee

Institutional action, institutional entrepreneurship, and China’s inward FDI policy: A co-evolution analysis

Yuanyuan Liu, Yilin Zhao and Xiaming Liu

How do country institutions affect foreign investment? Evidence from European multinational companies

Christian Haddad and Arnt Verriest

Government R&D support’s effects on export performance via innovation: An analysis of organizational motivators as moderators

Priit Tinits, Jingtao Yi, Carl F. Fey and Shuang Meng

Spatial development of technological knowledge and the evolution of international business activity across technological paradigms

John Cantwell and Pallavi Shukla

Refugees’ employment: Adapting a structural inequality framework for multinational corporations

Nadeera Ranabahu, Huibert P. de Vries and Zhiyan Basharati

When I have to versus when I am able to: Behavioral and resource explanations for firms’ international expansion via exporting

Hongyan Qu, Zhujun Ding, David Ahlstrom, Changqi Wu and Huifen Helen Cai

The micro-contextual conditions that influence host-country nationals’ decisions about horizontal knowledge sharing in multinational enterprises in China

Danni Ma and Anthony Fee

Looking back to look forward: Disruption, innovation and future trends in international human resource management

Elaine Farndale, Sven Horak, Rakoon Piyanontalee, Sheila M. Puffer and Maja Vidović