International Business Review

1993 - 2025

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Volume 32, issue 6, 2023

Corporate reactions to the fracturing of the global economy

Peter J. Buckley

The pursuit of indigenous innovation amid the Tech Cold War: The case of a Chinese high-tech firm

Ling Eleanor Zhang, Shasha Zhao, Philipp Kern, Tony Edwards and Zhi-Xue Zhang

The legitimacy defeat of Huawei in the media: Cause, context, and process

Anlan Zhang, Yue Xu and Matthew J. Robson

Societal knowledge quality as catalyst for the competitive productivity of technology: One in a set of several universal processes in trajectories of societal progress

Gordon Redding

Co-evolutions in global decoupling: Learning from the global semiconductor industry

Hongzhi Gao, Monica Ren and Tsui-Yii Shih

The Tech Cold War: What can we learn from the most dynamic patent classes?

Manuel Mira Godinho and Vítor Corado Simões

Springboard internationalisation in times of geopolitical tensions

Daniella Fjellström, Wensong Bai, Luis Oliveira and Tony Fang

Facilitator or inhibitor? The effect of host-country intellectual property rights protection on China’s technology-driven acquisitions

Molin Wang, Haifeng Yan, Francesco Ciabuschi and Cong Su

Liminality and developmental process of learning advantage of newness of early internationalizing firms

Emmanuel Kusi Appiah, Tamara Galkina and Peter Gabrielsson

Multinational enterprises, intra-regional cross-border M&As, and performance: Location advantages of market versus knowledge

Lee, In Hyeock (Ian), Eunsuk Hong and Jong Shin

The internationalization of social enterprises: The impact of business model characteristics

Filip De Beule, Johan Bruneel and Kieran Dobson

The impact of knowledge and financial resource flows for MNE strategy: A typology of subsidiary roles

Randi Lunnan, Klaus Meyer, Ram Mudambi and Qin Yang

CEO wealth and cross-border acquisitions by SMEs

Flladina Zilja, Gabriel Benito, Hamid Boustanifar and Dan Zhang

Sovereign wealth fund governance: A trade-off between internal and external legitimacy

J. Amar and C. Lecourt

Volume 32, issue 5, 2023

Counterfeiting and firm survival. Do international trade activities matter?

Rosanna Pittiglio

Business failures in institutionally weak environments: An examination of Virgin Atlantic’s failed adventure in sub-saharan africa

Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Yaw A. Debrah and Moses Acquaah

The role of CSR committee characteristics on R&D investments

Gianluca Ginesti, Domenico Campa, Spano’, Rosanna, Alessandra Allini and Marco Maffei

Fire and ice: The incompatible impact of industry-wide domestic patents and international standards on firm internationalization

Netanel Drori, Niron Hashai and Joseph Clougherty

CSR and stakeholder salience in MNE subsidiaries in emerging markets

Sandra Figueira, Caroline Gauthier and Rui Torres de Oliveira

Outward foreign direct investment and green innovation in Chinese multinational companies

Xing Shi, Yujie Zeng, Yanrui Wu and Shuai Wang

Operating in the middle-power position: Conceptualising the role of regional headquarters through loaned and owned power

Kieran Conroy, Jens Gammelgaard and Stefan Jooss

Efficiency of multinational banks: Impacts of geographic and product loci

Canan Yildirim, Adnan Kasman and Mohamed Azzim Gulamhussen

From grassroots to international markets: A qualitative study of marginalized entrepreneurs in India

Abrar Ali Saiyed, Marleen Wierenga, Stephanie A. Fernhaber and Niina Nummela

Retailers’ foreign market exits over time: A strategic management perspective

David Schmid and Dirk Morschett

Business resilience: Lessons from government responses to the global COVID-19 crisis

Harvey Nguyen, Anh Viet Pham, Pham, Man Duy (Marty) and Mia Hang Pham

It’s personal: The emotional dimension of psychic distance perception in intercultural knowledge transfer

Qiu Wang, Jeremy Clegg, Hanna Gajewska-De Mattos and Peter J. Buckley

Do technology-focused fast internationalizers’ performance measures change as they mature?

Susan Freeman, Tiia Vissak, Niina Nummela and Ryan Trudgen

Is environmental labeling certification a “green passport” for firm exports in emerging economies? Evidence from China

Luoqiong Zhou, Shenggang Ren, Lei Du, Fei Tang and Ronghua Li

The role of national institutions in the effects of consumers’ perceived customer orientation and firm innovativeness

Nele Jacobs and Bernhard Swoboda

Volume 32, issue 4, 2023

Discontinuity of required oral and literacy skills across job roles in achieving high work performance: An fsQCA approach

Manami Suzuki, Naoki Ando and Hidehiko Nishikawa

Investigating the impact of consumers’ patriotism and ethnocentrism on purchase intention: Moderating role of consumer guilt and animosity

Sita Mishra, Yupal Shukla, Gunjan Malhotra and Vibha Arora

Imitation, performance feedback, and outward foreign direct investments by emerging market firms

Yong Wang, Kaige Li, Yunxia Zhu and Jiawen Chen

Taking the rough with the smooth: A qualitative inquiry into social and cultural practices of knowledge-sharing work in international consultancy alliances

Muhammad Shakeel Aslam, O’Reilly, Dermot and Uzair Shah

Does central bank independence matter for the location choices of Chinese firms’ foreign investments?

Yanping Zhao, Qing Chen and Jakob de Haan

Role of opportunity creation between reconfiguration and innovation: Insights from emerging market international new ventures

Dominic Buccieri, Raj G. Javalgi and Erin Cavusgil

Understanding the relationship between the use of social media and the prevalence of anxiety at the country level: a multi-country examination

David A. Griffith, Hannah S. Lee and Goksel Yalcinkaya

Back to roots: TMTs’ country-specific experience, FDI preference, and political center favoritism

Yuanyuan Zhou, Peng Liu, Min Teng and Zhen Wang

Performance feedback and location choice of foreign direct investment

Shufeng Xiao and Xiaocong Tian

Pro-market reforms and the outsourcing tradeoffs: Evidence from the transition economies

Debmalya Mukherjee, N. Nuruzzaman, Ajai S. Gaur and Deeksha Singh

Revisiting FSAs and CSAs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Ghanaian Firms

Ellis L.C. Osabutey, Marina Papanastassiou, Zhongqi Jin, Jyoti Navare and Ahmed Agyapong

Impact of domestic and foreign knowledge mechanisms on the innovation performance of Indian firms

Lucia Piscitello and Pooja Thakur-Wernz

Cultural bridging and the performance of international joint ventures

Palitha Konara and Alex Mohr

Should I stay or should I go now? Understanding terrorism as a driver of institutional escapism

Max Abrahms, Luis Alfonso Dau and Elizabeth M. Moore

Speed of internationalization of new ventures and survival in export markets

Geir Gripsrud, Auke Hunneman and Carl Arthur Solberg

Reviewing half a century of measuring cross-cultural competence: Aligning theoretical constructs and empirical measures

Nicole Franziska Richter, Christopher Schlaegel, Vasyl Taras, Ilan Alon and Allan Bird

Varieties of institutional systems, the belt-road initiative, and the patterned investment flows

Di Fan, Zhang, Ya’nan, Xinli Huang and Yiyi Su

Antitrust policy and inward FDI: The impact of policy risk and uncertainty on U.S. inward-FDI flows

Joseph Clougherty and Nan Zhang

Impact of TMT structural power asymmetry on family firm internationalization

Anita Kerai, Vikas Kumar and Chitra Singla

Digitalization, internationalization, and firm performance: A resource-orchestration perspective on new OLI advantages

Krishna Raj Bhandari, Peter Zámborský, Mikko Ranta and Jari Salo

Responses of FDI to geopolitical risks: The role of governance, information, and technology

Adrien Bussy and Huanhuan Zheng

How does the negotiation between “me” and “we” in professional identity influence interpersonal horizontal knowledge sharing in multinational enterprises: A conceptual model

Danni Ma

Managers as the bridge: How cultural friction influences the integration of cross-border mergers and acquisitions

Silin Ye, Jing Zhou, Yunwen Jiang and Xiaming Liu

Once upon a time in a foreign market: The role of cultural distance in the economic performance of multilateral non-equity partnerships

Serdar Yayla, Omer Cem Kutlubay, Mesut Cicek and Sengun Yeniyurt

Why do some firms stop exporting?

Jaehoon Jeong and Jae-Suk Yang

Causal mechanisms of COVID-19 disruptive effects on liability of foreignness and the emergence of new firm-specific advantages

Akiko Sato and Andrei Panibratov

COVID-19 and corporate tax avoidance: International evidence

A. Athira and Vishnu K. Ramesh

Volume 32, issue 3, 2023

The complementarity effect of exporting, importing and R&D on the productivity of Ukrainian MNEs

Silvia Massini, Lucia Piscitello and Yevgeniya Shevtsova

Is the cure worse than the disease? The effect of emerging market MNEs on host country corruption

Jie Yang and Shoeb Mohammad

Asymmetric risk perception and firm financing in the institutional envelope

Thomas Lindner, Jonas Puck and Giulia Stocco

Taking two to tango: A comparative nationalism view of cross-border acquisitions

Sihong Wu and Di Fan

From structural to transition effects: Institutional dynamism as a deterrent to long-term investments by MNEs

Gunnar Leymann and Sarianna Lundan

Where does ESG pay? The role of national culture in moderating the relationship between ESG performance and financial performance

Jiyoung Shin, Jon Jungbien Moon and Jingoo Kang

Perceived corporate social responsibility effects across nations – The role of national institutions

Lukas Zimmer and Bernhard Swoboda

CEOs’ regulatory focus and firm internationalization: The moderating effects of CEO overconfidence, narcissism and career horizon

Ashenafi Biru, Igor Filatotchev, Garry Bruton and David Gilbert

The influence of business groups on board composition in offshore financial multinational enterprises

Bruce Hearn, Lars Oxelheim and Trond Randøy

Institutional misalignment and escape-based FDI: A prospect theory lens

Jack Clampit, Nolan Gaffney, Frances Fabian and Thomas Stafford

IP protection and ownership in cross-border acquisitions

Ofra Bazel-Shoham, Sang Mook Lee, Mohammad Faisal Ahammad, Shlomo Y. Tarba and Ilan Alon

Volume 32, issue 2, 2023

Mapping the evolution, current state of affairs and future research direction of managing cross-border knowledge for innovation

Vijay Pereira, Umesh Bamel, Yama Temouri, Pawan Budhwar and Manlio Del Giudice

Headquarters parenting advantage in Chinese MNEs: The moderating role of top managers’ political and International experience

Cong Su, Francesco Ciabuschi and Lingshuang Kong

Ambidexterity in MNC knowledge sourcing in emerging economies: A microfoundational perspective

Mariana Dodourova, Shasha Zhao and Anne-Wil Harzing

International knowledge interactions and catch-up. Evidence from European patent data for Chinese latecomer firms

Bernd Ebersberger, Margarita Feit and Helen Mengis

Open innovation: Are absorptive and desorptive capabilities complementary?

Omid Aliasghar and Jarrod Haar

Innovation performance: The effect of knowledge-based dynamic capabilities in cross-country innovation ecosystems

Jeandri Robertson, Albert Caruana and Caitlin Ferreira

Managing global knowledge transfer: Inpatriate manager embeddedness and firm innovation

Timothy Kiessling, Jane Frances Maley, Miriam Moeller and Marina Dabic

The effect of home country characteristics on the internationalization of EMNEs: The moderating role of knowledge stock

Pantea Foroudi, Suraksha Gupta, Parth Patel, Georgios Batsakis, Juha Vaatanen and Michael Czinkota

Stuck at the bottom: Role of tacit and explicit knowledge on innovation of developing-country suppliers in global value chains

Mohammad Tarikul Islam and Doren Chadee

Neither developed nor emerging: Dual paths for outward FDI and home country innovation in emerged market MNCs

Eun Su Lee, Wei Liu and Jing Yu Yang

Moving beyond the transfer dyad: Exploring network influences on transfer effectiveness

Henrik Dellestrand, Ulf Holm and Olof Lindahl

Using the Gioia Methodology in international business and entrepreneurship research

Giovanna Magnani and Denny Gioia

Managing cross-border knowledge transfer for innovation: An introduction to the special issue

Hussain G. Rammal, Elizabeth L. Rose and João J. Ferreira

Volume 32, issue 1, 2023

Rethinking cross-border mobile payment ecosystems: A process study of mobile payment platform complementors, network effect holes and ecosystem modules

Mian Wu, (David) Liu, Yulong, Sajjad M. Jasimuddin and (Justin) Zhang, Zuopeng

Achieving value co-creation through cooperation in international joint ventures: A two-level perspective

Qingtao Wang, Xuan Bai and Julie Juan Li

Consumers’ reaction to automobile recalls: The role of corporate non-market strategies and interstate relations

Zhi Li, Jia Xu, Jingjing Tian and Jiuchang Wei

Internationalization of business angel investments: The role of investor experience

Annalisa Croce, Armin Schwienbacher and Elisa Ughetto

More than just empathy: The influence of moral emotions on boycott participation regarding products sourced from politically contentious regions

Hayiel Hino

Religion and foreign direct investment

Seiwoong Hong, Junyong Lee, Frederick Dongchuhl Oh and Donglim Shin

Dynamic managerial capability portfolios in early internationalising firms

Anna Vuorio and Lasse Torkkeli

Multinational operational flexibility, within-network redundancy, and downside risks and divestment rates of international investments

Sangcheol Song

Revisiting the relationship between product and international diversification in new ventures: The moderating effect of effectuation processes

Ioanna Deligianni

Entry mode diversity and closing commercial deals with international customers: The moderating role of advanced servitization

Waleed Shleha, Yancy Vaillant and Ferran Vendrell-Herrero

Internationalization and breaking the glass ceiling: An institutional perspective

Wen-Ting Lin, Chia-Ling Lee and David Ahlstrom

Early internationalization and subsequent geographic expansion: An extended Penrosean perspective

Hirokazu Kano