International Business Review

1993 - 2025

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Volume 24, issue 6, 2015

When history matters: The effect of historical ties on the relationship between institutional distance and shares acquired pp. 921-934

Ben L. Kedia and Tsvetomira V. Bilgili

Openness and isolation: The trade performance of the former Soviet Central Asian countries pp. 935-947

Arman Mazhikeyev, Terence Edwards and Marian Rizov

National and international labour relations in oil and gas Trans National Corporations in Kazakhstan pp. 948-954

Richard Croucher

Context, law and reinvestment decisions: Why the transitional periphery differs from other post-state socialist economies pp. 955-965

Mehmet Demirbag, Martina McGuinnness, Geoffrey Wood and Nizamettin Bayyurt

Investment in personnel and FDI in Belarusian companies pp. 966-971

Hanna Danilovich and Richard Croucher

Five star hotels of a Multinational Enterprise in countries of the transitional periphery: A case study in human resources management pp. 972-983

Giovanni O. Serafini and Leslie T. Szamosi

Managerial agency, risk, and strategic posture: Nonmarket strategies in the transitional core and periphery pp. 984-996

Yusaf H. Akbar and Maciej Kisilowski

FDI entry strategies and the impacts of economic freedom distance: Evidence from Nordic FDIs in transitional periphery of CIS and SEE pp. 997-1008

Ahmad Arslan, Shlomo Y. Tarba and Jorma Larimo

The legends of the Caucasus: Economic transformation of Armenia and Georgia pp. 1009-1024

Aleksandr Gevorkyan

Institutional influences on SME exporters under divergent transition paths: Comparative insights from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan pp. 1025-1038

Dilshod Makhmadshoev, Kevin Ibeh and Mike Crone

When over internationalized companies reduce their international footprint pp. 1039-1047

Pierre-André Buigues, Denis Lacoste and Stéphanie Lavigne

The principle of congruity in the analysis of international business cooperation pp. 1048-1060

Peter J. Buckley, Adam Cross and Claudio de Mattos

Contingency distance factors and international research and development (R&D), marketing, and manufacturing alliance formations pp. 1061-1071

Jeongho Choi and Sengun Yeniyurt

How global careers unfold in practice: Evidence from international project work pp. 1072-1081

Denice Welch and Catherine Welch

Opening and closing doors: The role of language in international opportunity recognition and exploitation pp. 1082-1094

Leila Hurmerinta, Niina Nummela and Eriikka Paavilainen-Mäntymäki

The effects of institutional quality and diversity of foreign markets on exporting firms’ innovation pp. 1095-1106

Jie Wu, Zefu Wu and Shuaihe Zhuo

Volume 24, issue 5, 2015

Technological strategies and learning-by-exporting: The case of Brazilian manufacturing firms, 2006–2008 pp. 725-738

Bruno César Araújo and Mario Sergio Salerno

Foreign subsidiary top manager nationality and language policy: The moderating effects of subsidiary age and size pp. 739-748

Vesa Peltokorpi

The bright and dark side of CSR in export markets: Its impact on innovation and performance pp. 749-757

Cláudia Costa, Luis Filipe Lages and Paula Hortinha

An event study of home and host country patent generation in Chinese MNEs undertaking strategic asset acquisitions in developed markets pp. 758-771

John Anderson, Dylan Sutherland and Sean Severe

Effect of export experience and market scope strategy on export performance: Evidence from Poland pp. 772-780

Jerzy Cieślik, Eugene Kaciak and Thongpapanl, Narongsak (Tek)

Doing business in Libya: Assessing the nature and effectiveness of international marketing programs in an evolving economy pp. 781-797

Izzudin Busnaina and Tony Woodall

Environmentally friendly export business strategy: Its determinants and effects on competitive advantage and performance pp. 798-811

Leonidas C. Leonidou, Thomas A. Fotiadis, Paul Christodoulides, Stavroula Spyropoulou and Constantine S. Katsikeas

How control system information characteristics affect exporter–intermediary relationship quality pp. 812-824

Maria L. Velez, Jose M. Sanchez, Raquel Florez and Concha Alvarez-Dardet

Geographic, cultural, and psychic distance to foreign markets in the context of small and new ventures pp. 825-835

Arto Ojala

The social, economic and environmental dimensions of corporate social responsibility: The role played by consumers and potential entrepreneurs pp. 836-848

M. Rosario González-Rodríguez, M. Carmen Díaz-Fernández and Biagio Simonetti

Expatriate performance in terrorism-endangered countries: The role of family and organizational support pp. 849-860

Benjamin Bader, Nicola Berg and Dirk Holtbrügge

SMEs and international entrepreneurship: An institutional network perspective pp. 861-873

Gospel Onyema Oparaocha

Does country context distance determine subsidiary decision-making autonomy? Theory and evidence from European transition economies pp. 874-889

Gjalt de Jong, Vo van Dut, Bjoern Jindra and Philipp Marek

The role of independent directors at family firms in relation to corporate social responsibility disclosures pp. 890-901

Beatriz Cuadrado-Ballesteros, Lázaro Rodríguez-Ariza and Isabel-María García-Sánchez

Information asymmetry, disclosure and foreign institutional investment: An empirical investigation of the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act pp. 902-915

Nida Abdioglu, Vassiliki Bamiatzi, S.Tamer Cavusgil, Arif Khurshed and Konstantinos Stathopoulos

Volume 24, issue 4, 2015

Drivers and performance implications of international key account management capability pp. 543-555

Jean, Ruey-Jer “Bryan”, Rudolf Sinkovics, Daekwan Kim and Yong Kyu Lew

High-tech firms’ international acquisition performance: The influence of host country property rights protection pp. 556-566

Hong Zhu and Gong-ming Qian

Explaining foreign firms’ approaches to corporate political activity in emerging economies: The effects of resource criticality, product diversification, inter-subsidiary integration, and business ties pp. 567-579

Vikrant Shirodkar and Alexander T. Mohr

Culture clashes in cross-border mergers and acquisitions: A case study of Sweden's Volvo and South Korea's Samsung pp. 580-593

Sung-Jun Lee, Joongwha Kim and Byung Il Park

International returnees as outside directors: A catalyst for strategic adaptation under institutional pressure pp. 594-604

Ji-Hwan Lee and Michael J.D. Roberts

Competence-creating subsidiaries and FDI technology spillovers pp. 605-614

Yoo Jung Ha and Axèle Giroud

Beyond financial indicators: An assessment of the measurement of performance for international new ventures pp. 615-629

Stephan Gerschewski and Simon Shufeng Xiao

Analysis of predictors of organizational losses due to occupational corruption pp. 630-641

Yuriy Timofeyev

How do marketing, research and development capabilities, and degree of internationalization synergistically affect the innovation performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)? A panel data study of Chinese SMEs pp. 642-651

Shengce Ren, Andreas B. Eisingerich and Huei-Ting Tsai

Export patterns: Typology development and application to Estonian data pp. 652-664

Tiia Vissak and Jaan Masso

FDI from emerging markets and the productivity gap—An analysis on affiliates of BRICS EMNEs in Europe pp. 665-676

Marco Sanfilippo

The termination of international joint ventures: Closure and acquisition by domestic and foreign partners pp. 677-689

José Mata and Pedro Portugal

State ownership and market orientation in China's public firms: An agency theory perspective pp. 690-699

Jing Song, Rui Wang and Salih Tamer Cavusgil

Corporate political strategy and liability of foreignness: Similarities and differences between local and foreign firms in the South African Health Sector pp. 700-709

Albert Wöcke and Terence Moodley

Situational job characteristics and job satisfaction: The moderating role of national culture pp. 710-723

Sven Hauff, Nicole Franziska Richter and Tabea Tressin

Volume 24, issue 3, 2015

Technology transfer within China and the role of location choices pp. 353-366

Mario Kafouros and Elizabeth Yi Wang

Why people quit: Explaining employee turnover intentions among export sales managers pp. 367-379

Evangelia Katsikea, Marios Theodosiou and Robert E. Morgan

The relationship between consumer ethnocentrism, cosmopolitanism and product country image among younger generation consumers: The moderating role of country development status pp. 380-393

Zhongqi Jin, Richard Lynch, Samaa Attia, Bal Chansarkar, Tanses Gülsoy, Paul Lapoule, Xueyuan Liu, William Newburry, Mohamad Sheriff Nooraini, Ronaldo Parente, Keyoor Purani and Marius Ungerer

The human aspect of cross-border acquisition outcomes: The role of management practices, employee emotions, and national culture pp. 394-408

Marjaana Gunkel, Christopher Schlaegel, Tobias Rossteutscher and Birgitta Wolff

Just like a fine wine? Age, emotional intelligence, and cross-cultural adjustment pp. 409-418

Heidi Wechtler, Alexei Koveshnikov and Cecile Dejoux

Market entry modes in a multipolar world: Untangling the moderating effect of the political environment pp. 419-429

Maria A. De Villa, Tazeeb Rajwani and Thomas Lawton

State ownership, institutional effects and value creation in cross-border mergers & acquisitions by Chinese firms pp. 430-442

Min Du and Agyenim Boateng

Market orientation, managerial perceptions, and corporate culture in an emerging market: Evidence from Turkey pp. 443-456

Attila Yaprak, Burcu Tasoluk and Cenk Kocas

Is the degree of internationalization associated with the use of knowledge intensive services or with innovation? pp. 457-465

Richard Shearmur, David Doloreux and Anika Laperrière

Local complementary inputs as drivers of entry mode choices: The case of US investments in Brazil pp. 466-475

Jean-Francois Hennart, Hsia Hua Sheng and Gustavo Pimenta

The incremental expansion of Born Internationals: A comparison of new and old Born Internationals pp. 476-496

Martin Johanson and Oscar Martín Martín

Towards explaining subsidiary implementation, integration, and internalization of MNC headquarters HRM practices pp. 497-505

Catarina Ahlvik and Ingmar Björkman

How do past mode choices influence subsequent entry? A study on the boundary conditions of preferred entry modes of retail firms pp. 506-517

Bernhard Swoboda, Stefan Elsner and Edith Olejnik

The determinants of FDI and the impact of the economic crisis on the implementation of RTAs: A static and dynamic gravity model pp. 518-529

Bassem Kahouli and Samir Maktouf

Impact of culture on marketing of health services – Elekta in Brazil pp. 530-540

Maria Fregidou-Malama and Akmal S. Hyder

Volume 24, issue 2, 2015

The remuneration of independent directors in the UK and Italy: An empirical analysis based on agency theory pp. 175-186

Chris Mallin, Andrea Melis and Silvia Gaia

R&D internationalization and innovation performance pp. 187-195

Chia-Wen Hsu, Yung-Chih Lien and Homin Chen

Competitive embeddedness: The impact of competitive relations among a firm's current alliance partners on its new alliance formations pp. 196-208

Gunno Park, Marco JinHwan Kim and Jina Kang

The determinants of inward foreign direct investment: Evidence from the European regions pp. 209-223

Jose Villaverde and Adolfo Maza

Subsidiary exploration and the innovative performance of large multinational corporations pp. 224-234

Feng Zhang, Guohua Jiang and John Cantwell

The wealth effects of acquiring foreign divested assets pp. 235-245

Surendranath R. Jory and Thanh N. Ngo

Country-risk measurement and analysis: A new conceptualization and managerial tool pp. 246-265

Christopher L. Brown, S. Tamer Cavusgil and A. Wayne Lord

Do I stay or do I go? Sub-national drivers for post-entry subsidiary development pp. 266-275

Agnieszka Chidlow, Christine Holmström-Lind, Ulf Holm and Steve Tallman

Information technology and partnership dynamic capabilities in international subcontracting relationships pp. 276-286

Kuo-Hsiung Chang, Yung-ray Chen and Hsu-Feng Huang

Unpacking knowledge transfer and learning paradoxes in international strategic alliances: Contextual differences matter pp. 287-297

Mia Hsiao-Wen Ho and Fatima Wang

The impact of structural and attitudinal antecedents on the instability of international joint ventures: The mediating role of asymmetrical changes in commitment pp. 298-310

Rodrigo Isidor, Christian Schwens, Frank Hornung and Ruediger Kabst

Pricing to manage export channel relationships pp. 311-318

Claude Obadia and Barbara Stöttinger

Good corporate governance in Nigeria: Antecedents, propositions and peculiarities pp. 319-330

Emmanuel Adegbite

The conscious and unconscious facilitating role of the Chinese government in shaping the internationalization of Chinese MNCs pp. 331-343

Tian Wei, Jeremy Clegg and Lei Ma

When does absorptive capacity matter for international performance of firms? Evidence from China pp. 344-351

Aiqi Wu and Hinrich Voss

Volume 24, issue 1, 2015

Knowing when to acquire: The case of multinational technology firms pp. 1-10

Nir N. Brueller, Shmuel Ellis, Eli Segev and Abraham Carmeli

The power of triple contexts on customer-based brand performance—A comparative study of Baidu and Google from Chinese netizens’ perspective pp. 11-22

Deli Yang, Sonmez, Mahmut (Maho), Qinghai Li and Yibing Duan

Consumer animosity and foreign direct investment: An investigation of consumer responses pp. 23-32

Cher-Min Fong, Chun-Ling Lee and Yunzhou Du

Corruption distance and FDI flows into Latin America pp. 33-42

Jose R. Godinez and Ling Liu

Discourses of knowledge across global networks: What can be learnt about knowledge leadership from the ATLAS collaboration? pp. 43-54

Christopher Mabey and Alyson Nicholds

Lending to women in microfinance: Role of social trust pp. 55-65

Raj Aggarwal, John W. Goodell and Lauren J. Selleck

Local clusters of SOEs, POEs, and FIEs, international experience, and the performance of foreign firms operating in emerging economies pp. 66-76

Tsai-Ju Liao

Beyond path dependence: Explorative orientation, slack resources, and managerial intentionality to internationalize in SMEs pp. 77-88

Àngels Dasí, María Iborra and Vicente Safón

Transfers of tacit vs. explicit knowledge and performance in international joint ventures: The role of age pp. 89-101

Chansoo Park, Ilan Vertinsky and Manuel Becerra

Knowledge acquisition, learning, and the initial pace of internationalization pp. 102-114

Jose C. Casillas, Jose L. Barbero and Harry J. Sapienza

Multinational subsidiary sales and performance in South East Asia pp. 115-123

Quyen T.K. Nguyen and Alan Rugman

Direct or indirect channel structures. Evaluating the impact of channel governance structure on export performance pp. 124-132

Meena Rambocas, Raquel Meneses, Carlos Monteiro and Pedro Quelhas Brito

Relevant dimensions and contextual weights of distance in international business decisions: Evidence from Spanish and Chinese outward FDI pp. 133-147

Rian Drogendijk and Oscar Martín Martín

Entrepreneurial orientation and export intensity: Examining the interplay of organizational learning and innovation pp. 148-156

Anabel Fernández-Mesa and Joaquin Alegre

Cross-border mergers and acquisitions by emerging market firms: A comparative investigation pp. 157-172

Ping Deng and Monica Yang