International Business Review

1993 - 2025

Current editor(s): P. Ghauri

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Volume 31, issue 6, 2022

The effects of business- and non-business-targeting terrorism on FDI to the MENA region: The moderating role of political regime

Anna Dimitrova, Dora Triki and Alfredo Valentino

Mandate dynamics and the importance of mandate loss for subsidiary evolution

Edward Gillmore

Expatriates on the run: The psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on expatriates’ host country withdrawal intentions

Alexei Koveshnikov, Miikka J. Lehtonen and Heidi Wechtler

Internal and external drivers of anticorruption policies in multinationals

Alfredo Valentino, Ulrike Mayrhofer and Matteo Caroli

Heterogeneity in OFDI by EMNEs: Drivers and trends of Chinese and Indian firms

Ying Zhu, Deepak Sardana and Ryan Tang

Organizational legitimacy of emerging multinational enterprises: An individual perspective

Jianhong Zhang, Désirée van Gorp, Haico Ebbers, Chaohong Zhou and Henk Kievit

Innovation and export performance of emerging market enterprises: The roles of state and foreign ownership in China

Guowei Dong, Ari Kokko and Haoyong Zhou

Multinational subsidiaries and green innovation

Valentina De Marchi, Giulio Cainelli and Roberto Grandinetti

CEO compensation, governance structure, and foreign direct investment in conflict-prone countries

Hyoungjin Lee, Junmin Park and Chris Changwha Chung

Strategic agility of SMEs in emerging economies: Antecedents, consequences and boundary conditions

Samuel Adomako, Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Francis Donbesuur, Mujtaba Ahsan, Albert Danso and Moshfique Uddin

Translating strategy into action: The importance of an agile mindset and agile slack in international business

Yoel Asseraf and Itzhak Gnizy

From travel to virtual work: The transitional experiences of global workers during Covid-19

Stefan Jooss, Kieran M. Conroy and Anthony McDonnell

Volume 31, issue 5, 2022

Transfer of corporate governance practices into weak emerging market environments by foreign institutional investors

Geofry Areneke, Emmanuel Adegbite and Abongeh Tunyi

Business group affiliation and SMEs’ international sales intensity and diversification: A multi-country study

Jonas Eduardsen, Svetla Trifonova Marinova, Miguel González-Loureiro and Božidar Vlačić

Historical social network analysis: Advancing new directions for international business research

Emily Buchnea and Ziad Elsahn

Employing brand governance mechanisms with export channel partners: What are the performance consequences and contingent effects?

Keith Pyper and Anne Marie Doherty

Global value chain linkages: An integrative review of the opportunities and challenges for SMEs in developing countries

Mesumbe Bianca Epede and Daoping Wang

Foreign company misconduct and how consumers’ punitive intent is influenced by country stereotypes and the perceived similarity between the foreign country and the home country

Camilla Barbarossa, Cristian Buzeta, Patrick De Pelsmacker and Ingrid Moons

Staying in or stepping out? Growth strategies of second-generation immigrant entrepreneurs

Sarika Pruthi and Misagh Tasavori

Back-end information technology resources and manufacturing SMEs’ export commitment: An empirical investigation

Sylvestre Uwizeyemungu, Placide Poba-Nzaou and Josée St-Pierre

A taxonomy of back-shoring initiatives in the US

Carmela Di Mauro and Alessandro Ancarani

The asymmetric dominance of cognitive versus affective country image in driving purchase: Conditioning roles of cognition-affect intra-valence nature and product type

Lin Ma, Zening Song and Xuemei Bian

CEO gender, institutional context and firm exports

David B. Audretsch, Maksim Belitski, Farzana Chowdhury and Sameeksha Desai

Market entry into new export markets: When are firms more likely to imitate their competitors’ market presence?

Dirk Michael Boehe and Manuel Becerra

International entrepreneurial SMEs in the muslim world: The role of religion in the GCC countries

Heba Younis, Pavlos Dimitratos and Said Elbanna

Reflective versus unreflective country images: How ruminating on reasons for buying a country’s products alters country image

George Balabanis and Carmen Lopez

Crossing borders and boundaries: Translation ecosystems in international business

D. Eleanor Westney, Rebecca Piekkari, Kaisa Koskinen and Susanne Tietze

Volume 31, issue 4, 2022

Small firms’ non-market strategies in response to dysfunctional institutional settings of emerging markets

Peter Rodgers, Natalia Vershinina, Zaheer Khan and Peter Stokes

Conceptualizing cross-country analyses of family firms: A systematic review and future research agenda

Anna Maria Bornhausen

Institutional voids, liability of origin, and presence of women in TMT of emerging market multinationals

Abubakr Saeed, Hammad Riaz and Muhammad Saad Baloch

Do interlocks by different types of directors affect the nature of internationalization strategy of emerging market multinationals?

Saneesh Edacherian and Vidya Sukumara Panicker

Mitigating transaction risk for cross-border e-commerce firms: A multiagent-based simulation study

Shuzhong Ma, Yuxi Chai and Fu Jia

Board experience and value creation in cross-border acquisitions: The role of acquirer and target country institutions

Jana Oehmichen, Sebastian Firk, Michael Wolff and Veronika Haas

Advanced technologies and international business: A multidisciplinary analysis of the literature

Alan A. Ahi, Noemi Sinkovics, Yelnur Shildibekov, Rudolf Sinkovics and Nikolay Mehandjiev

Proximity at a distance: The relationship between foreign subsidiary co-location and MNC headquarters board interlock formation

Filip De Beule, Stefano Elia, Javier Garcia-Bernardo, Eelke M. Heemskerk, Andreja Jaklič, Frank W. Takes and Michal Zdziarski

The institutional context as a source of heterogeneity in family firm internationalization strategies: A comparison between U.S. and emerging market family firms

Carlos González and Ana González-Galindo

Gender discrimination and lending to women: The moderating effect of an international founder

Samuel Anokye Nyarko

Family-centred non-economic goals and the internationalisation of family firms: Evidence from Australia

Chris Graves, Henry X. Shi and Francesco Barbera

Unveiling the global focus-performance relationship in family firms: The role of the board of directors

Jonathan Bauweraerts, Unai Arzubiaga and Vanessa Diaz-Moriana

How does Industry 4.0 affect international exposure? The interplay between firm innovation and home-country policies in post-offshoring relocation decisions

Paolo Barbieri, Albachiara Boffelli, Stefano Elia, Luciano Fratocchi and Matteo Kalchschmidt

The impact of industry 4.0 on the 2017 version of the Uppsala model

Waheed Akbar Bhatti, Jan-Erik Vahlne, Mario Glowik and Jorma Antero Larimo

The use of multinomial choice analysis in international business research

William H. Greene, Agnieszka Chidlow and Roger Strange

Volume 31, issue 3, 2022

Strategic ambidexterity and its performance implications for emerging economies multinationals

Zaheer Khan, Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Yong Kyu Lew, Pushyarag Puthusserry and Michael Czinkota

International business, innovation and ambidexterity: A micro-foundational perspective

Yipeng Liu, Simon Collinson, Sir Cary Cooper and Daniela Baglieri

Consumer dispositions: Meanings and non-meanings of outgroup favourability

Miriam Taís Salomão, Vivian Iara Strehlau and Susana Silva

The paradox and change of Russian cultural values

Dina Chimenson, Rosalie L. Tung, Andrei Panibratov and Tony Fang

The indirect effect of online marketing capabilities on the international performance of e-commerce SMEs

Daniel Tolstoy, Emilia Rovira Nordman and Uyen Vu

Desire, need, and obligation: Examining commitment to luxury brands in emerging markets

Jaywant Singh, Paurav Shukla and Bodo B. Schlegelmilch

Performance feedback and export intensity of Chinese private firms: Moderating roles of institution-related factors

Meitong Dong, Liwen Wang, Defeng Yang and Kevin Zheng Zhou

The impact of internationalization degree on cash levels: Evidence from Latin America

Aviner Augusto Silva Manoel and Marcelo Botelho da Costa Moraes

Performance shortfalls and outward foreign direct investment by MNE subsidiaries: Evidence from China

Ziliang Deng, Tingting Li and Peter W. Liesch

The role of firm-level and country-level antecedents in explaining emerging versus advanced economy multinationals' R&D internationalization strategies

Diemo Urbig, Vivien D. Procher, Philip J. Steinberg and Christine Volkmann

Intellectual property rights protection and total factor productivity

Zhongfeng Su, Chenfeng Wang and Mike W. Peng

Learning from Older Siblings: Impact On Subsidiary Performance

Garima Garg, Mayank Sewak and Anurag Sharma

International network formation, home market institutional support and post-entry performance of international new ventures

Francis Donbesuur, Nadia Zahoor and Nathaniel Boso

Outsidership, network positions and cooperation among internationalizing SMEs: An industry evolutionary perspective

Xander Ong, Susan Freeman, Francois Goxe, Simone Guercini and Brian Cooper

Dominant modes of economic coordination and varieties of firm internationalization support

Florian A.A. Becker-Ritterspach, Knut S.G. Lange and Matthew M.C. Allen

Volume 31, issue 2, 2022

Support for corporate social responsibility among generation Y consumers in advanced versus emerging markets

Michaela Luger, Katharina Maria Hofer and Arne Floh

Language and identity in the shadow: A multi-case study of a Japanese multinational corporation

Hitoshi Iwashita

Sources of knowledge and process innovation: The moderating role of perceived competitive intensity

Omid Aliasghar, Elizabeth L. Rose and Kazuhiro Asakawa

Facilitating factors in the cross-cultural transfer of management practices: The case of a German multinational in Brazil

Madeleine Bausch, Christoph Barmeyer and Ulrike Mayrhofer

Is it a sententious claim? An examination of the quality of occupational health, safety and well-being disclosures in global reporting initiative reports across industries and countries

Sugumar Mariappanadar, Iris Maurer, Robin Kramar and Michael Muller-Camen

Manage the value and liability of offshoring innovation

Tung Min Hung, Farok Contractor and Yi-Ju Lo

Engaging informal institutions through corporate political activity: Capabilities for subnational embeddedness in emerging economies

Charles Mbalyohere and Thomas C. Lawton

The effects of subsidiary’s leadership and entrepreneurship on international marketing knowledge transfer and new product development

Cátia Fernandes Crespo, Nuno Fernandes Crespo and Carla Curado

Contraction under minimum wages? Operational and financial advantages of multinational subsidiaries in China

Jing-Lin Duanmu, Pehr-Johan Norbäck, Jane Wenzhen Lu and Jeremy Clegg

Is there an advantage of emergingness? A politico-regulatory perspective

Mark R. Mallon, Orhun Guldiken, Mirko H. Benischke, Feng Dong and Trung Nguyen

The choice of master international franchising – A modified transaction cost model

Maria Jell-Ojobor, Ilan Alon and Josef Windsperger

Determining investment size and local embeddedness under host market uncertainty and growth rates

Sangcheol Song

Liability of emergingness and EMNEs’ cross-border acquisition completion: A legitimacy perspective

Jianhong Zhang

A systematic review of the relationship between international diversification and innovation: A firm-level perspective

Jill Josefina Juergensen, Rajneesh Narula and Irina Surdu

Nationality biases in peer evaluations: The country-of-origin effect in global virtual teams

Ernesto Tavoletti, Robert D. Stephens, Vas Taras and Longzhu Dong

Volume 31, issue 1, 2022

How do business and political Networking shape overseas dispute resolution for state-owned enterprise from emerging economies

Lu Shen, Chuang Zhang, Wenbo Teng and Nan Du

Disentangling the effects of domestic corporate political activity and political connections on firms’ internationalisation: Evidence from US retail MNEs

Vikrant Shirodkar, Georgios Batsakis, Palitha Konara and Alexander Mohr

A vulnerable victim or a tacit participant? Extending the field of multinationals and corruption research

Fang Lee Cooke, Jingtian Wang and Geoffrey Wood

Argonauts and Icaruses: Social networks and dynamics of nascent international entrepreneurs

Francois Goxe, Ulrike Mayrhofer and Olli Kuivalainen

Social support abroad: How do self-initiated expatriates gain support through their social networks?

Annamaria Kubovcikova and Marian van Bakel

Rapid internationalization and exit of exporters: The role of digital platforms

Ziliang Deng, Ziyan Zhu, Martin Johanson and Mikael Hilmersson

Toward fairer global reward: Lessons from international non-governmental organizations

Ishbel McWha-Hermann, Jakov Jandric, Emily Cook-Lundgren and Stuart C. Carr

Host country’s environmental uncertainty, technological capability, and foreign market entry mode: Evidence from high-end equipment manufacturing MNEs in emerging markets

Kun-Sha Li and Yong-Qing Xiong

Entrepreneurial orientation, export channel selection, and export performance of SMEs

Igor Kalinic and Keith D. Brouthers

Challenges confronting the ‘One Belt One Road’ initiative: Social networks and cross-cultural adjustment in CPEC projects

Arshia Mukhtar, Ying Zhu, You-il Lee, Mary Bambacas and S. Tamer Cavusgil

Founding entrepreneur’s dilemma: Stay or exit the firm following an acquisition? An international comparison

Francesca Sanguineti, Antonio Majocchi and S. Tamer Cavusgil

Becoming a small multinational enterprise: Four multinationalization strategies for SMEs

Heini Vanninen, Joona Keränen and Olli Kuivalainen

Overcoming informal barriers to trade: Immigrant educational attainment vs. network competence

Xiyan Yang and Xiaohua Lin

Small exporting firms’ choice of exchange mode in international marketing channels for perishable products: A contingency approach

Valeria Nyu, Frode Nilssen and Destan Kandemir

MNEs and the practice of international business diplomacy

Jonathan P. Doh, Nicolas M. Dahan and Michelle Casario