Journal of International Management

1998 - 2025

Current editor(s): M. Kotabe

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Volume 26, issue 4, 2020

Heuristics in international business: A systematic literature review and directions for future research

Simone Guercini and Matilde Milanesi

Modelling the effects of institutional support and international knowledge on competitive capabilities and international performance: Evidence from an emerging economy

Mohammad Falahat, Yan Yin Lee, T. Ramayah and Pedro Soto-Acosta

A stratified system of knowledge and knowledge icebergs in cross-cultural business models: Synthesising ontological and epistemological views

Shouyang Wang and Tachia Chin

Subsidiary innovation performance: Balancing external knowledge sources and internal embeddedness

Alberto Ferraris, Marcel Bogers and Stefano Bresciani

A repositioning organizational knowledge dynamics by functional upgrading and downgrading strategy in global value chain

Veronica Scuotto, Alexeis Garcia-Perez, Chiara Nespoli and Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli

The impact of political capabilities and political markets on firms' decision to lobby

Seong-jin Choi, Alfredo Jiménez and Jeoung Yul Lee

A knowledge tension perspective on management control and performance in international joint ventures

Ming-Chang Huang and Ya-Ping Chiu

What types of top management teams' experience matter to the relationship between political hazards and foreign subsidiary performance?

Qiao Wei, Wen Helena Li, Marco De Sisto and Jinlong Gu

The role of internationalization in enhancing the innovation performance of Chinese EMNEs: A geographic relational approach

Stefano Elia, Mario Kafouros and Peter J. Buckley

Improving subsidiaries' innovation through knowledge inflows from headquarters and peer subsidiaries

Cátia Fernandes Crespo, Luis Filipe Lages and Nuno Fernandes Crespo

A micro-level perspective on the implementation of corporate social responsibility practices in multinational corporations

Laurence Vigneau

Volume 26, issue 3, 2020

Generating a Scandal: Non-market Activity to Stop a Cross-Border Merger and Acquisition

Nilufer Yapici and Bryant Ashley Hudson

Institutional voids and firms' resource commitment in emerging markets: A review and future research agenda

Tahiru Azaaviele Liedong, Augustine Awuah Peprah, Abednego Okoe Amartey and Tazeeb Rajwani

When do host country nationals help expatriates? The roles of identification with the multinational enterprise and career development support by the subsidiary

Sachiko Yamao, Toru Yoshikawa, Daejeong Choi and Soo Min Toh

Location still matters! How does geographic configuration influence the performance-enhancing advantages of FDI spillovers?

Elizabeth Yi Wang and Mario Kafouros

Can organizations help adjust?: The effect of perceived organizational climate on immigrants' acculturation and consequent effect on perceived fit

Marcus A. Valenzuela, Carol Flinchbaugh and Sean Edmund Rogers

Greenfield or M&A? An institutional and learning perspective on the establishment mode choice of Chinese outward investments

Ilan Alon, Stefano Elia and Shaomin Li

Cognitive biases in the perceptions of country distance

James Nebus and Sokol Celo

Micro-dynamics of stress and coping with cultural differences in high tech global teams

Nurit Zaidman and Hilla Cohen

The Quality of Leader-Member Exchange (LMX): A Multilevel Analysis of Individual-level, Organizational-level and Societal-level Antecedents

Jane Terpstra-Tong, David A. Ralston, Len J. Treviño, Irina Naoumova, María Teresa de la Garza Carranza, Olivier Furrer, Yongjuan Li and Fidel León Darder

Cross-national distance as an explanatory variable in international management: Fundamental challenge and solution

André van Hoorn

A paradigm shift in the global strategy of MNEs towards business ecosystems: A research agenda for new theory development

Hongryol Cha

Sustainable expatriate compensation in an uncertain environment

Jane F. Maley, Miriam Moeller and Alina F. Ting

Volume 26, issue 2, 2020

Between a rock and a hard place: Internal- and external institutional fit of MNE subsidiary political strategy in contexts of institutional upheaval

Gerhard Schnyder and Dorottya Sallai

The effect of informal and formal institutions on foreign market entry selection and performance

Lucio Fuentelsaz, Elisabet Garrido and Juan P. Maicas

Consequences of expatriate top manager replacement on foreign subsidiary performance

Ralf Bebenroth and Fabian J. Froese

Management research in the Arab World: What is now and what is next?

Said Elbanna, Dina M. Abdelzaher and Nora Ramadan

Do third-party certifications work in a weak institutional environment?

Anna Lamin and Grigorios Livanis

Causal attribution for peer performance and international joint venture divestment

Kent N. Hui, G. Tomas M. Hult and David J. Ketchen

Culture and cross-functional coopetition: The interplay of organizational and national culture

Ernesto Knein, Andrea Greven, David Bendig and Malte Brettel

Institutional agency by MNEs: A review and future research agenda

Ayse Saka-Helmhout

Foreign language skill, anxiety, cultural intelligence and individual task performance in global virtual teams: A cognitive perspective

Alfred Presbitero

Enhancing the learning advantages of newness: The role of internal social capital in the international performance of young entrepreneurial firms

Wensong Bai, Runqian Liu and Lianxi Zhou

Volume 26, issue 1, 2020

Crossing Cultural Boundaries Using the Internet: Toward Building a Model of Swift Trust Formation in Global Virtual Teams

Norhayati Zakaria and Shafiz Affendi Mohd Yusof

Internet and SMEs' internationalization: The role of platform and website

Jean, Ruey-Jer “Bryan” and Daekwan Kim

International Digital Competence

Fernanda Cahen and Felipe Mendes Borini

Performance implications of MNE subsidiary federation: Evidence from India

Mayank Sewak and Anurag Sharma

Multinational firms' pace of expansion within host countries: How high rates of pro-market reform hamper the local exploitation of foreign expansion knowledge

Moritz Putzhammer, Arjen Slangen, Jonas Puck and Thomas Lindner

Overcoming blind spots in global sourcing research: Exploiting the cross-sections between supply chain management and international business

Andreas Wieland, Lydia Bals, Michael J. Mol and Robert B. Handfield

How does crisis management in China differ from the West?: A review of the literature and directions for future research

Yijing Wang and Daniel Laufer

Forgotten travelers: Adjustment and career implications of international business travel for expatriates

Mihaela Dimitrova, Sherwin Ignatius Chia, Margaret A. Shaffer and Cheryl Tay-Lee

Role of overseas ethnic and non-ethnic ties and firm activity in the home country in the internationalization of returnee entrepreneurial firms

Haiyan Li

Volume 25, issue 4, 2019

Does proactivity matter? the importance of initiative selling tactics for headquarters acceptance of subsidiary initiatives

Alexander Gorgijevski, Christine Holmström Lind and Katarina Lagerström

Do remittances to emerging countries improve their economic development? Understanding the contingent role of culture

Eleni E.N. Piteli, Peter J. Buckley and Mario Kafouros

Diverse effects of diversity: Disaggregating effects of diversity in global virtual teams

Vas Taras, Daniel Baack, Dan Caprar, Douglas Dow, Fabian Froese, Alfredo Jimenez and Peter Magnusson

Impact of subsidiaries' cross-border knowledge tacitness shared and social capital on MNCs' explorative and exploitative innovation capability

Margaret L. Sheng and Nathaniel N. Hartmann

An audit of received international business corruption literature for logic, consistency, completeness of coverage

Alex Kouznetsov, Sarah Kim and Chris Wright

The effects of international diversification on the link between product diversification and performance in a boom and bust cycle: Evidence from Spanish firms (1994–2014)

José Ángel Zúñiga-Vicente, Diana Benito-Osorio, Luis Ángel Guerras-Martín and Alberto Colino

Role of Leaders as Agents of Negotiation for Counterbalancing Cultural Dissonance in the Middle East and North Africa Region

Gaye Karacay, Secil Bayraktar, Hayat Kabasakal and Ali Dastmalchian

The Determinants of the Boundary-spanning Functions of Japanese Self-initiated Expatriates in Japanese Subsidiaries in China: Individual Skills and Human Resource Management

Masayuki Furusawa and Chris Brewster

Institutional voids, international learning effort and internationalization of emerging market new ventures

Samuel Adomako, Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, George Obeng Dankwah, Albert Danso and Francis Donbesuur

Volume 25, issue 3, 2019

Subnational FDI Legitimacy and Foreign Subsidiary Survival pp. -

George Z. Peng and Paul W. Beamish

Cultural Intelligence and Institutional Success: The Mediating Role of Relationship Quality pp. -

Revti Raman Sharma

Diaspora Ownership and Homeland Firms' Internationalization pp. -

Larissa Rabbiosi, Aleksandra Gregorič and Tamara Stucchi

Does state ownership really matter? The dynamic alignment of China's resource environment and firm internationalization strategies pp. -

Monica Ren, Stephan Manning and Stanislav Vavilov

A real options model of market entry: Endogenous uncertainty and exogenous uncertainty pp. -

Joshua B. Sears

Intra- and inter-regional diversification, subsidiary value chain activities and expatriate utilization pp. -

Jong Min Lee

False foe? When and how code switching practices can support knowledge sharing in multinational corporations pp. -

Farhan Ahmad and Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen

Geographically Dispersed Technological Capability Building and MNC Innovative Performance: The Role of Intra-firm Flows of Newly Absorbed Knowledge pp. -

Feng Zhang, Guohua Jiang and John Cantwell

Managing “forced” technology transfer in emerging markets: The case of China pp. -

Dan Prud'homme and Maximilian von Zedtwitz

Volume 25, issue 2, 2019

Outbound Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Motivation and Domestic Employment by Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) pp. -

Eunsuk Hong, Lee, In Hyeock (Ian) and Shige Makino

A Multi-country Study of Factors Influencing Expatriate Career Intentions pp. -

Arpita Joardar and Guillaume Weisang

Isolated Foreign Subsidiary's Initiative in Knowledge Transfer Within the MNE pp. -

Naoto Nadayama

Multinational Enterprises and the Provision of Collective Goods in Developing Countries under Formal and Informal Institutional Voids. The Case of Electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. -

Paola Garrone, Lucia Piscitello and Matilde D'Amelio

Coordination Mechanisms and Overseas Knowledge Acquisition for Chinese Suppliers: The Contingent Impact of Production Mode and Contractual Governance pp. -

Lei Wang, Dong Huo and Kazuyuki Motohashi

MNEs' Agency Within Institutional Contexts: A Study of Walmart's Post-acquisition Practices in Mexico, Germany, and Japan pp. -

Lai Si Tsui-Auch and Dawn Chow

Intra-firm Subsidiary Grouping and MNC Subsidiary Performance in China pp. -

Junqian Xu, Dan Huang and Yigang Pan

Overcoming the Liability of Foreignness through Lobbying: an Examination of Franchise Systems pp. -

William A. Kline and Richard S. Brown

Volume 25, issue 1, 2019

Defining and Measuring the Institutional Context of National Intellectual Property Systems in a post-TRIPS world pp. 3-18

Nikolaos Papageorgiadis and Frank McDonald

The Processes of New Product Development Recentralization towards a Transnational Emphasis in Multinational Corporations pp. 19-36

Yang Liu

Subsidiary Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Opportunity: An Institutional Perspective pp. 37-50

Kim Clark and Indu Ramachandran

Multinational Enterprises: Leveraging a Corporate International Entrepreneurship Lens for New Insights Into Subsidiary Initiatives pp. 51-65

Mujtaba Ahsan and Stephanie A. Fernhaber

Effects of Firm-specific and Country-specific Advantages on Relative Acquisition Size in Service Sector Cross-Border Acquisitions: An Empirical Examination pp. 66-80

Dynah A. Basuil and Deepak K. Datta

How Opportunistic Culture Affects Financial Performance in Outsourcing Relationships: A Meta-Analysis pp. 81-100

Philipp W. Dahlgrün and Andreas Bausch

An Effectual–Causal View of Managerial Decisions in the Internationalization of Indian MNEs pp. 101-120

Rupanwita Dash and Kumar Rakesh Ranjan

Internationalization Orientation in SMEs: The Mediating Role of Technological Innovation pp. 121-139

Mahshid Bagheri, Siwan Mitchelmore, Vassiliki Bamiatzi and Konstantinos Nikolopoulos