International Business Review

1993 - 2025

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Volume 26, issue 6, 2017

Catch me if I fall: Cross-national differences in willingness to take financial risks as a function of social and state ‘cushioning’ pp. 1023-1033

Claudia R. Schneider, Dennis D. Fehrenbacher and Elke U. Weber

Export prices, selection into exporting and market size: Evidence from China and India pp. 1034-1050

Sushanta Mallick and Helena Marques

Internationalization stages of traditional SMEs: Increasing, decreasing and re-increasing commitment to foreign markets pp. 1051-1063

Noémie Dominguez and Ulrike Mayrhofer

Varieties of CSR: Institutions and Socially Responsible Behaviour pp. 1064-1074

Mehmet Demirbag, Geoffrey Wood, Dilshod Makhmadshoev and Olga Rymkevich

Learning Sustainability? Absorptive capacities as drivers of sustainability in MNCs’ purchasing pp. 1075-1087

Rilana Riikkinen, Katri Kauppi and Asta Salmi

MNE performance during a crisis: An evolutionary perspective on the role of dynamic managerial capabilities and industry context pp. 1088-1099

Stav Fainshmidt, Anil Nair and Mark R. Mallon

Impact of board gender diversity on dividend payments: Evidence from some emerging economies pp. 1100-1113

Abubakr Saeed and Muhammad Sameer

How personal and organizational drivers impact on SME international performance: The mediating role of organizational innovation pp. 1114-1123

Christiane Prange and José Carlos Pinho

Do foreign mergers and acquisitions boost firm productivity? pp. 1124-1140

Marc Schiffbauer, Iulia Siedschlag and Frances Ruane

Mitigating information asymmetry through sustainability assurance: The role of accountants and levels of assurance pp. 1141-1156

Beatriz Cuadrado-Ballesteros, Jennifer Martínez-Ferrero and Isabel María García-Sánchez

Liabilities and benefits: Examining the two sides of the foreignness coin from entrepreneurial perspective pp. 1157-1167

Arpita Joardar and Sibin Wu

Assigned versus assumed: Towards a contemporary, detailed understanding of subsidiary autonomy pp. 1168-1183

Andrew Cavanagh, Susan Freeman, Paul Kalfadellis and Kendall Herbert

Out of Africa: The role of institutional distance and host-home colonial tie in South African Firms’ post-acquisition performance in developed economies pp. 1184-1195

Ru-Shiun Liou and Rekha Rao-Nicholson

Why does MNE performance vary across countries? pp. 1196-1207

Marina Carnevale, Lilac Nachum and Helaine Korn

Tourism coopetition: An introduction to the subject and a research agenda pp. 1208-1217

Adriana F. Chim-Miki and Rosa M. Batista-Canino

Volume 26, issue 5, 2017

Foreign vs domestic ownership on debt reduction: An investigation of acquisition targets in Italy and Spain pp. 801-815

Vassiliki Bamiatzi, Georgios Efthyvoulou and Liza Jabbour

Foreign institutional investors and dividend policy: Evidence from China pp. 816-827

Lihong Cao, Yan Du and Jens Ørding Hansen

Ownership structure and earnings management in emerging markets—An institutionalized agency perspective pp. 828-838

Shuji Rosey Bao and Krista B. Lewellyn

Does outward FDI generate higher productivity for emerging economy MNEs? – Micro-level evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms pp. 839-854

Linjie Li, Xiaming Liu, Dong Yuan and Miaojie Yu

The evolution of strategic asset-seeking acquisitions by emerging market multinationals pp. 855-866

Stefano Elia and Grazia Santangelo

The relationship between multinationality and performance: Knowledge-intensive vs. capital-intensive service micro-multinational enterprises pp. 867-880

Joonho Shin, Xavier Mendoza, Matthew A. Hawkins and Changbum Choi

Affective conflict and identification of knowledge sources in MNE teams pp. 881-895

Pekka Vahtera, Peter Buckley and Murod Aliyev

Bibliometric analysis of absorptive capacity pp. 896-907

Indri Dwi Apriliyanti and Ilan Alon

Making the next move: When does the newness of experience matter in overseas sequential entries of multinational companies? pp. 908-926

Wen Li, Bin Guo and Gangxiang Xu

Exploring sources of value destruction in international acquisitions: A synthesized theoretical lens pp. 927-941

Tian Wei and Jeremy Clegg

Synergies and tensions between and within domestic and international market activities of firms pp. 942-958

Maria Karafyllia and Antonella Zucchella

Integrated information and the cost of capital pp. 959-975

Isabel-María García-Sánchez and Ligia Noguera-Gámez

Internalization theory and the performance of emerging-market multinational enterprises pp. 976-990

Peter J. Buckley and Xiaowen Tian

International work experience: Is it really accelerating the way to the management board of MNCs? pp. 991-1008

Stefan Schmid and Dennis J. Wurster

Subsidiary strategy of emerging market multinationals: A home country institutional perspective pp. 1009-1021

Ziyi Wei and Quyen T.K. Nguyen

Volume 26, issue 3, 2017

Multinationality, R&D and productivity: Evidence from the top R&D investors worldwide pp. 405-416

Davide Castellani, Sandro Montresor, Torben Schubert and Antonio Vezzani

An international examination of the economic effectiveness of banking recapitalization pp. 417-434

Suleiman Tahir, Emmanuel Adegbite and Yilmaz Guney

Offshoring, local market entry, and the strategic context of cross-border alliances: The impact on the governance mode pp. 435-447

Gabriella Lojacono, Nicola Misani and Stephen Tallman

Born Globals—Is there fire behind the smoke? pp. 448-460

Eliane Choquette, Morten Rask, Davide Sala and Philipp Schröder

Stock payment and the effects of institutional and cultural differences: A study of shareholder value creation in cross-border M&As pp. 461-475

Hyejin Cho and He Soung Ahn

Monetary uncertainty and trade in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: A firm-level analysis pp. 476-490

Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso and Florian Johannsen

An integrated perspective of social exchange theory and transaction cost approach on the antecedents of trust in international joint ventures pp. 491-501

Saba Khalid and Tahir Ali

Enhancing national innovative capacity: The impact of high-tech international trade and inward foreign direct investment pp. 502-514

Jie Wu, Zhenzhong Ma and Shuaihe Zhuo

The delicate balance: Managing technology adoption and creation in multinational affiliates in an emerging economy pp. 515-526

Xiaming Liu, Pekka Vahtera, Chengang Wang, Jue Wang and Yingqi Wei

Marketing capabilities, positional advantage, and performance of born global firms: Contingent effect of ambidextrous innovation pp. 527-543

Silvia L. Martin, Rajshekhar G. Javalgi and Erin Cavusgil

Local conditions, entry timing, and foreign subsidiary performance pp. 544-554

Chia-Wen Hsu, Homin Chen and Caskey, D’Arcy

How do sub-national institutional constraints impact foreign firm performance? pp. 555-565

Xiaoying Li and Laixiang Sun

Antecedents and consequences of liking in retail service relationships in China and Greece pp. 566-578

Ibrahim Abosag, Thomas L. Baker, Kristina Lindsey Hall, Aliki-Dimitra Voulgari and Xiaoyuan Zheng

Highly skilled returnees and the internationalization of EMNEs: Firm level evidence from China pp. 579-591

Xialoan Fu, Jun Hou and Marco Sanfilippo

Can outnumbered negotiators succeed? The case of intercultural business negotiations pp. 592-603

Elena Dinkevych, Robert Wilken, Tayfun Aykac, Frank Jacob and Nathalie Prime

Volume 26, issue 2, 2017

Global supply network embeddedness and power: An analysis of international joint venture formations pp. 203-213

Sengun Yeniyurt and Steven Carnovale

Telecom market liberalization and service performance outcomes of an incumbent monopoly pp. 214-224

Alhassan G. Mumuni, Mushtaq Luqmani and Zahir A. Quraeshi

The dynamics of experiential learning: Microprocesses and adaptation in a professional service INV pp. 225-238

Thorsten Bunz, Lucrezia Casulli, Marian V Jones and Andreas Bausch

The empirical link between export dispersion and export performance: A contingency-based approach pp. 239-249

Itzhak Gnizy, John W. Cadogan, João S. Oliveira and Asmat Nizam

SME foreign market entry mode choice and foreign venture performance: The moderating effect of international experience and product adaptation pp. 250-263

Lina Hollender, Florian B. Zapkau and Christian Schwens

Investigating the causality links between environmental quality, foreign direct investment and economic growth in MENA countries pp. 264-278

Mohamed Abdouli and Sami Hammami

The influence of competition on international sourcing strategies in the service sector pp. 279-287

Wolfgang Gleich, Bjoern Schmeisser and Miriam Zschoche

Informal institutions and international entrepreneurship pp. 288-302

Etayankara Muralidharan and Saurav Pathak

A review of the empirical research on export channel selection between 1979 and 2015 pp. 303-323

Min Li, Xinming He and Carlos M.P. Sousa

Organizational innovation, technological innovation, and export performance: The effects of innovation radicalness and extensiveness pp. 324-336

Goudarz Azar and Francesco Ciabuschi

Corporate environmental sustainability reporting in the context of national cultures: A quantile regression approach pp. 337-353

Prof. Isabel Gallego-Álvarez and Prof. Eduardo Ortas

National economic disparity and cross-border acquisition resolution pp. 354-364

Mi-Hee Lim and Ji-Hwan Lee

Rapid multinationalization: Propositions for studying born micromultinationals pp. 365-379

Heini Vanninen, Olli Kuivalainen and Luciano Ciravegna

When marketing and innovation interact: The case of born-global firms pp. 380-390

Kalanit Efrat, Shaked Gilboa and Moshe Yonatany

Breakthrough innovation in international business: The impact of tech-innovation and market-innovation on performance pp. 391-404

Graça Miranda Silva, Chris Styles and Luis Filipe Lages

Volume 26, issue 1, 2017

The moderating effect of bilateral investment treaty stringency on the relationship between political instability and subsidiary ownership choice pp. 1-11

Christopher Williams, Lukoianova (Vashchilko), Tatiana and Candace A. Martinez

Small Italian wine producers’ internationalization: The role of network relationships in the emergence of late starters pp. 12-22

Barbara Francioni, Tiia Vissak and Fabio Musso

Corruption’s impact on foreign portfolio investment pp. 23-35

Pankaj K. Jain, Emre Kuvvet and Michael S. Pagano

Innovation dynamics and labor force restructuring with asymmetrically developed national innovation systems pp. 36-56

Francisco J. Santos-Arteaga, Debora Di Caprio, Madjid Tavana and O’Connor, Aidan

Ambidexterity as a dynamic capability in the globalization of the multinational business enterprise (MBE): Case studies of AB Volvo and IKEA pp. 57-70

Jan-Erik Vahlne and Anna Jonsson

Exploring the link between internationalization of top management and accounting quality: The CFO’s international experience matters pp. 71-88

Tobias Dauth, Paul Pronobis and Stefan Schmid

Cross-national research and international business: An interdisciplinary path pp. 89-101

Brian R. Chabowski, Saeed Samiee and G. Tomas M. Hult

Coercive, normative and mimetic isomorphism as determinants of the voluntary assurance of sustainability reports pp. 102-118

Jennifer Martínez-Ferrero and Isabel-María García-Sánchez

Absorptive capacity in foreign subsidiaries: The effects of language-sensitive recruitment, language training, and interunit knowledge transfer pp. 119-129

Vesa Peltokorpi

Transaction services and SME internationalization: The effect of home and host country bank relationships on international investment and growth pp. 130-144

Kent Eriksson, Øystein Fjeldstad and Sara Jonsson

MNE subsidiary evolution from sales to innovation: Looking inside the black box pp. 145-155

Chaisung Lim, Martin Hemmert and Seunghoi Kim

Launching reverse-innovated product from emerging markets to MNC’s home market: A theoretical framework for MNC’s decisions pp. 156-163

Fengxia Zhu, Shaoming Zou and Hui Xu

Analysing the critical factors influencing trust in e-government adoption from citizens’ perspective: A systematic review and a conceptual framework pp. 164-175

Latifa Alzahrani, Wafi Al-Karaghouli and Vishanth Weerakkody

Does state ownership facilitate outward FDI of Chinese SOEs? Institutional development, market competition, and the logic of interdependence between governments and SOEs pp. 176-188

Yuanyuan Huang, En Xie, Yu Li and K.S. Reddy

Do cross-border mergers and acquisitions increase short-term market performance? The case of Chinese firms pp. 189-202

Fang Tao, Xiaohui Liu, Lan Gao and Enjun Xia