International Business Review

1993 - 2025

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Volume 30, issue 6, 2021

A multi-theory framework for understanding the reshoring decision

Ronan McIvor and Lydia Bals

The bargaining power, value capture, and export performance of Vietnamese manufacturers in global value chains

Hanh Song Thi Pham and Bent Petersen

Digital power: Value chain upgrading in an age of digitization

Luis Oliveira, Afonso Fleury and Maria Tereza Fleury

Universally-enabling and context-binding resources in new venture internationalization: Evidence from venture capital backed start-ups in an emerging market

Carlos González and Daniela Ruiz Massieu

The impact of international diversification on credit scores: Evidence from the UK

Hussein Halabi, Ahmad Alshehabi, Geoffrey Wood, Zaheer Khan and Godfred Afrifa

Sales to centre stage! Determinants of the division in strategic sales decisions within the MNE

Harriet Reichstein-Scholz, Axèle Giroud, Mo Yamin and Ulf Andersson

The efficacy of marketing skills and market responsiveness in marketing performance of emerging market exporting firms in advanced markets: The moderating role of competitive intensity

Huda Khan and Zaheer Khan

Gaijin invasion? A resource dependence perspective on foreign ownership and foreign directors

Stefan Schmid and Felix Roedder

The effect of within-country inequality on international trade and investment agreements

Niron Hashai and Peter J. Buckley

Developing brand identities for international new ventures under uncertainty: Decision-making logics and psychic distance

Samuel Yaw Kusi, Peter Gabrielsson and Minnie Kontkanen

Exploring reverse knowledge transfer and asset augmentation strategy by developed country MNEs: Case study evidence from the Indian pharmaceutical industry

Surender Munjal, Ulf Andersson, Vijay Pereira and Pawan Budhwar

Foreign subsidiaries as vehicles of industry 4.0: The case of foreign subsidiaries in a post-transition economy

Barbara Jankowska, Marta Götz and Piotr Tarka

The effects of competition policy, regulatory quality and trust on inward FDI in host countries

Sergio Mariotti and Riccardo Marzano

Multilevel trust in international marketing of healthcare services: A five-country comparative study

Maria Fregidou-Malama and Akmal S. Hyder

International opportunity development on crowdfunding platforms: A spatial, temporal, and structural framework

Mujtaba Ahsan and Martina Musteen

Volume 30, issue 5, 2021

Servant leadership, CSR perceptions, moral meaningfulness and organizational identification- evidence from the Middle East

Sophie Lythreatis, Ahmed Mohammed Sayed Mostafa, Vijay Pereira, Xiaojun Wang and Manlio Del Giudice

Environmental sustainability practices and offshoring activities of multinational corporations across emerging and developed markets

Theophilus A. Lartey, Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Albert Danso, Samuel Adomako, Zaheer Khan and Shlomo Y. Tarba

Investigating the causal configurations of cost-efficient firms at the bottom of the pyramid

Shubhabrata Basu, Surender Munjal, Ashish Malik and Demetris Vrontis

Up- and down- alliances: A systematic literature review

Chiara Cannavale, Anna Esempio and Marco Ferretti

The influence of Islamic Work Ethic on employees’ responses to change in Kuwaiti Islamic banks

Ahmed Al-Shamali, Zahir Irani, Mohamed Haffar, Sarah Al-Shamali and Fahad Al-Shamali

Assessing the effects of policies on China’s outward foreign direct investment

Tong Yin, Lisa De Propris and Liza Jabbour

Performance appraisal and MNEs: The impact of different capitalist archetypes

Elizabeth Houldsworth, Marianna Marra, Chris Brewster, Michael Brookes and Geoffrey Wood

International business education: What we know and what we have yet to develop

Anton Klarin, Boris Inkizhinov, Dashi Nazarov and Elena Gorenskaia

Negotiation beliefs: Comparing Americans and the Chinese

Zhi-Xue Zhang, Leigh Anne Liu and Li Ma

Comprehending the outward FDI from Latin America and OCED: A comparative perspective

Khelifa Mazouz, Geoffrey Wood, Shuxing Yin and Mao Zhang

Global value chains and the environmental sustainability of emerging market firms: A systematic review of literature and research agenda

Ismail Golgeci, Dilshod Makhmadshoev and Mehmet Demirbag

The hunt for international legitimacy: Examining the relationship between internationalization, state ownership, location and CSR reporting of Russian firms

Yulia Aray, Desislava Dikova, Tatiana Garanina and Anna Veselova

Born to be similar? Global isomorphism and the emergence of latecomer business schools

Hyungseok Yoon, Mustapha Belkhouja, Yingqi Wei and Sangho Lee

Formal and informal influences of the state on OFDI of hybrid state-owned enterprises in China

Tao Bai, Stephen Chen and Youzong Xu

Exploring and investigating sustainable international business practices by MNEs in emerging markets

Geoffrey Wood, Vijay Pereira, Yama Temouri and Adrian Wilkinson

Volume 30, issue 4, 2021

A South-South perspective on emerging economy companies and institutional coevolution: An empirical study of Chinese multinationals in Africa

Dominique Mazé and Claude Chailan

Risk management, legitimacy, and the overseas subsidiary performance of emerging market MNEs

Xia Han

Portfolio characteristics of outward foreign direct investment and dynamic performance of emerging economy firms: An option portfolio perspective

Yuanyuan Huang, En Xie and Zhan Wu

Resource curse impacts on the co-evolution of emerging economy institutions and firm internationalization

Charles Funk, Len J. Treviño and Juliet Oriaifo

Foreign direct investment and entrepreneurship: Does the role of institutions matter?

Ly Slesman, Yazid Abdullahi Abubakar and Jay Mitra

Rethinking guanxi and performance: Understanding the dark side of Sino–U.S. business relationships

Ibrahim Abosag, Dorothy Ai-wan Yen, Bradley R. Barnes and Eman Gadalla

The integrated use of social media, digital, and traditional communication tools in the B2B sales process of international SMEs

Sara Fraccastoro, Mika Gabrielsson and Ellen Bolman Pullins

The growing popularity of spiritual brands: What drives purchase intent?

Deepak Sardana, Erin Cavusgil and Narain Gupta

Individual responses to competing institutional logics in emerging markets

Dana Minbaeva, Maral Muratbekova-Touron, Dilek Zamantılı Nayır and Solon Moreira

The impact of home business network attributes on Chinese outward foreign direct investment

Jian Du, Yue Xu, Hinrich Voss and Song Wang

Coevolution of home country support and internationalization of emerging market firms

Chui Shiam Chan and Chinmay Pattnaik

Pattern of information technology use and relationship learning in international customer-supplier relationships

Ruey Jer Bryan Jean, Daekwan Kim and Kyuyeong Choi

Co-evolution of emerging economy MNEs and institutions: A literature review

Xiaming Liu, Na Yang, Linjie Li and Yuanyuan Liu

Does foreign direct investment promote institutional development in Africa?

Roger Mongong Fon, Fragkiskos Filippaios, Carmen Stoian and Soo Hee Lee

A co-evolution perspective of EMNE internationalization and institutions: An integrative framework of 5Cs

Agnieszka Chidlow, Jue Wang, Xiaohui Liu and Yingqi Wei

Volume 30, issue 3, 2021

Board member age, stock seasoning and the evolution of capital structure in Chinese firms

Paul B. McGuinness

Linking inward/outward FDI and exploitation/exploration strategies: Development of a framework for SMEs

Yuanfei Kang, Joanna Scott-Kennel, Martina Battisti and David Deakins

Managing international joint ventures to improve performance: The role of structural and social mechanisms

Tahir Ali, Saba Khalid, Khuram Shahzad and Jorma Larimo

Intercultural competencies for emerging markets: A contextualized approach

A.J. Corner, Leigh Anne Liu and Allan Bird

The accelerating effect of institutional environment unfamiliarity on subsidiary portfolio expansion in a new host country

Thomas Hutzschenreuter and Philippa-Luisa Harhoff

COVID-19 and business renewal: Lessons and insights from the global airline industry

Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Zaheer Khan and Ellis L.C. Osabutey

Top management team’s formal network and international expansion of Chinese firms: The moderating role of state ownership and political ties

Jie Wu, Geoffrey Wood and Zaheer Khan

Consequences of deindustrialisation for globalisation: Insights for international business

Christian William Callaghan

Informal interorganizational business relationships and customer loyalty: Comparing Guanxi, Yongo, and Wasta

Man Zhang, Janet L. Hartley, Faten Baddar AL-Husan and Fawaz Baddar ALHussan

Strategic responses to extreme institutional challenges: An MNE case study in the Palestinian mobile phone sector

Sharif Alaydi, Trevor Buck and Yee Kwan Tang

Agency controls and subsidiary strategic initiatives: The mediating role of subsidiary autonomy

Erifili-Christina Chatzopoulou, Pavlos Dimitratos and Spyros Lioukas

Valuation uncertainty, home and host market uncertainty, and cross-border seasoned equity offerings

Lorraine Eden, Daniel C. Indro, Stewart R. Miller and Malika Richards

Network embeddedness, headquarters entrepreneurial orientation, and MNE international performance

Monica Riviere and Ana M. Romero-Martínez

Do Chinese firms benefit from government ownership following cross-border acquisitions?

Wenjun Tu, Xiaolan Zheng, Lei Li and Lin, Zhiang (John)

Pro-market institutions and outward FDI of emerging market firms: An institutional arbitrage logic

Ryan W. Tang

Volume 30, issue 2, 2021

Research on international business: The new realities

Pervez Ghauri, Roger Strange and Fang Lee Cooke

Thirty years of International Business Review and International Business Research

Peter J. Buckley and Mark Casson

Advancing knowledge on emerging markets: Past and future research in perspective

S. Tamer Cavusgil

New OLI advantages in digital globalization

Yadong Luo

Coping with complexity by making trust an important dimension in governance and coordination

Jan-Erik Vahlne and Jan Johanson

Using interdisciplinary lenses to enrich the treatment of culture in international business

Oded Shenkar

International entrepreneurship and the internationalization phenomenon: taking stock, looking ahead

Antonella Zucchella

Multinational enterprises and structural transformation in emerging and developing countries: A survey of the literature

Xiaolan Fu, David Emes and Jun Hou

Volume 30, issue 1, 2021

Micro-foundational ambidexterity and multinational enterprises: A systematic review and a conceptual framework

Michael Christofi, Demetris Vrontis and John W. Cadogan

Predictive and effectual decision-making in high-tech international new ventures – A matter of sequential ambidexterity

Natasha Evers and Svante Andersson

Micro-foundations of organizational design and sustainability: The mediating role of learning ambidexterity

Amer Ali Al-Atwi, Joseph Amankwah-Amoah and Zaheer Khan

Home-owned versus foreign-owned firms in the UK automotive industry: Exploring the microfoundations of ambidextrous production and supply chain positioning

A. Qamar, E.C. Gardner, T. Buckley and K. Zhao

Does parenting matter in subsidiary innovation in emerging economies? Exploring the role of parent superior competitiveness in affecting subsidiary contextual ambidexterity

Na Wang and Yonggui Wang

Post-entry internationalization speed of SMEs: The role of relational mechanisms and foreign market knowledge

Nadia Zahoor and Omar Al-Tabbaa

A theoretical and empirical investigation into investment activities of technologically-intensive Chinese state-owned enterprises in the UK

Jelena Vukicevic, Grahame Fallon and Ursula F. Ott

The micro-foundation of ambidextrous opportunity identification in international expansion

Shuang Ren, Di Fan, Xinli Huang and Zijie Li

Experience as a catalyst of export destinations: The ambidextrous connection between international experience and past entrepreneurial experience

Esteban Lafuente, Yancy Vaillant, Marco Alvarado, Ronald Mora-Esquivel and Ferran Vendrell-Herrero

Unpacking the impact of innovation ambidexterity on export performance: Microfoundations and infrastructure investment

Ji Yan, Christos Tsinopoulos and Yu Xiong

Microfoundations of network exploration and exploitation capabilities in international opportunity recognition

Anisur R. Faroque, Sussie C. Morrish, Olli Kuivalainen, Sanna Sundqvist and Lasse Torkkeli

Intra and inter-country comparative effects of symbolic motivations on luxury purchase intentions in emerging markets

Paurav Shukla and Veronica Rosendo-Rios

A longitudinal micro-foundational investigation into ambidextrous practices in an international alliance context–A case of a biopharma EMNE

Vijay Pereira, Swetketu Patnaik, Yama Temouri, Shlomo Tarba, Ashish Malik and Oscar Bustinza

The transformation of national patents for high-technology exports: Moderating effects of national cultures

Tariq H. Malik, Tao Xiang and Chunhui Huo

Intermediate units in multinational corporations: A resource dependency view on coordinative versus entrepreneurial roles

José Pla-Barber, Ana Botella-Andreu and Cristina Villar