Journal of World Business

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Volume 52, issue 6, 2017

Barriers to absorptive capacity in emerging market firms pp. 727-742

Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra and Huaichuan Rui

Corporate political activity and location-based advantage: MNE responses to institutional transformation in Uganda’s electricity industry pp. 743-759

Charles Mbalyohere, Thomas Lawton, Roshan Boojihawon and Howard Viney

Profiting from FDI in conflict zones pp. 760-768

Stephen Chen

Untangling the multiple effects of slack resources on firms’ exporting behavior pp. 769-781

Ine Paeleman, Catherine Fuss and Tom Vanacker

Organizational slack, national institutions and innovation effort around the world pp. 782-797

Joel Malen and Paul Vaaler

The role of national culture and corruption on managing earnings around the world pp. 798-808

Krista B. Lewellyn and Shuji 'Rosey' Bao

National power distance, status incongruence, and CEO dismissal pp. 809-818

Weiwen Li, Yuan Lu, Shige Makino and Chung-Ming Lau

Productivity and participation values for cooperative goals to limit free riding and promote performance in international joint ventures pp. 819-830

Alfred Wong, Lu Wei, Jie Yang and Dean Tjosvold

Research performance as a quality signal in international labor markets: Visibility of business schools worldwide through a global research performance system pp. 831-841

Olga Ryazanova, Peter McNamara and Herman Aguinis

Integration-responsiveness, local hires and subsidiary performance amidst turbulence: Insights from a survey of Chinese subsidiaries pp. 842-853

Christopher Williams, Ana Colovic and Jiqing Zhu

Institutional imprinting, entrepreneurial agency, and private firm innovation in transition economies pp. 854-865

Vladislav Maksimov, Stephanie Lu Wang and Yadong Luo

Volume 52, issue 5, 2017

How global is international CSR research? Insights and recommendations from a systematic review pp. 591-614

Niccolò Pisani, Arno Kourula, Ans Kolk and Renske Meijer

Corporate governance, board networks and growth in domestic and international markets: Evidence from India pp. 615-627

Deeksha Singh and Andrew Delios

Does board independence influence financial performance in IPO firms? The moderating role of the national business system pp. 628-639

Alessandro Zattoni, Michael A. Witt, William Q. Judge, Till Talaulicar, Jean Jinghan Chen, Krista Lewellyn, Helen Wei Hu, Jonas Gabrielsson, Jose Luis Rivas, Sheila Puffer, Dhirendra Shukla, Felix Lopez, Emmanuel Adegbite, Yves Fassin, Sibel Yamak, Stav Fainshmidt and Hans van Ees

Host country employees’ ethnic identity confirmation: Evidence from interactions with ethnically similar expatriates pp. 640-652

Shea X. Fan and Anne-Wil Harzing

International and market-specific social capital effects on international opportunity exploitation in the internationalization process pp. 653-663

Angelika Lindstrand and Sara Melén Hånell

SME international business models: The role of context and experience pp. 664-679

John Child, Linda Hsieh, Said Elbanna, Joanna Karmowska, Svetla Marinova, Pushyarag Puthusserry, Terence Tsai, Rose Narooz and Yunlu Zhang

Is inpatriate assignment experience a ticket to the top of a foreign subsidiary? The moderating effect of subsidiary context pp. 680-690

Almasa Sarabi, Fabian J. Froese and Monika Hamori

Firm internationalization from a network-centric complex-systems perspective pp. 691-701

Yanto Chandra and Ian F. Wilkinson

Shades of paternalistic leadership across cultures pp. 702-713

Juliana Mansur, Filipe Sobral and Rafael Goldszmidt

How should we (not) judge the ‘quality’ of qualitative research? A re-assessment of current evaluative criteria in International Business pp. 714-725

Catherine Welch and Rebecca Piekkari

Volume 52, issue 3, 2017

Exporting challenges of SMEs: A review and future research agenda pp. 327-342

Justin Paul, Sundar Parthasarathy and Parul Gupta

CSR logics in developing countries: Translation, adaptation and stalled development pp. 343-359

Dima Jamali, Charlotte Karam, Juelin Yin and Vivek Soundararajan

From human capital externality to entrepreneurial aspiration: Revisiting the migration-trade linkage pp. 360-371

Xiaohua Lin and Xiyan Yang

Firm age, marketization, and entry mode choices of emerging economy firms: Evidence from listed firms in China pp. 372-385

Qunyong Xie

Bridging the language gap in multinational companies: Language strategies and the notion of company-speak pp. 386-403

Nathalie Aichhorn and Jonas Puck

Corporate language proficiency in reverse knowledge transfer: A moderated mediation model of shared vision and communication frequency pp. 404-416

Vesa Peltokorpi and Sachiko Yamao

The reshoring of business services: Reaction to failure or persistent strategy? pp. 417-430

Filippo Albertoni, Stefano Elia, Silvia Massini and Lucia Piscitello

The effect of organizational separation on individuals’ knowledge sharing in MNCs pp. 431-446

Àngels Dasí, Torben Pedersen, Paul N. Gooderham, Frank Elter and Jarle Hildrum

Volume 52, issue 2, 2017

Country-specific determinants of cross-border mergers and acquisitions: A comprehensive review and future research directions pp. 127-183

En Xie, K.S. Reddy and Jie Liang

Exploring the performance of government affairs subsidiaries: A study of organisation design and the social capital of European government affairs managers at Toyota Motor Europe and Hyundai Motor Company in Brussels pp. 184-196

Andrew Barron, Asier Pereda and Stephen Stacey

The influences of perceived organizational support and motivation on self-initiated expatriates’ organizational and community embeddedness pp. 197-208

Yu-Ping Chen and Margaret A. Shaffer

Communist footprint and subordinate influence behavior in post-communist transition economies pp. 209-229

Elitsa R. Banalieva, Charlotte M. Karam, David A. Ralston, Detelin Elenkov, Irina Naoumova, Marina Dabic, Vojko Potocan, Arunas Starkus, Wade Danis and Alan Wallace

Social elites on the board and executive pay in developing countries: Evidence from Africa pp. 230-243

Bruce Hearn, Roger Strange and Jenifer Piesse

Reducing poverty in the least developed countries: The role of small and medium enterprises pp. 244-257

Vladislav Maksimov, Stephanie Lu Wang and Yadong Luo

Competition and corporate tax evasion: An institution-based view pp. 258-269

Omer N. Gokalp, Seung-Hyun Lee and Mike W. Peng

Primary or complex? Towards a theory of metaphorical strategy communication in MNCs pp. 270-285

Andreas König, Angela Fehn, Jonas Puck and Lorenz Graf-Vlachy

Overstating and understating interaction results in international business research pp. 286-295

Allison F. Kingsley, Thomas G. Noordewier and Richard G. Vanden Bergh

Multinational enterprise regional management centres: Characteristics and performance pp. 296-311

Dwarka Chakravarty, Ying-Ying Hsieh, Andreas P.J. Schotter and Paul W. Beamish

CEOs’ ambivalent interpretations, organizational market capabilities, and corporate entrepreneurship as responses to strategic issues pp. 312-326

Wenlong Yuan, Yongjian Bao and Bradley J. Olson

Volume 52, issue 1, 2017

Gone are the creatures of yesteryear? On the diffusion of technological capabilities in the ‘modern’ MNC pp. 1-16

Katarina Blomkvist, Philip Kappen and Ivo Zander

Global outsourcing, explorative innovation and firm financial performance: A knowledge-exchange based perspective pp. 17-27

Ernst Verwaal

Betrayal in international buyer-seller relationships: Its drivers and performance implications pp. 28-44

Leonidas C. Leonidou, Bilge Aykol, Thomas A. Fotiadis, Paul Christodoulides and Athina Zeriti

The influence of language differences on power dynamics in multinational teams pp. 45-61

Helene Tenzer and Markus Pudelko

The location choice of foreign direct investments: Empirical evidence and methodological challenges pp. 62-82

Bo Bernhard Nielsen, Christian Geisler Asmussen and Cecilie Weatherall

Locals know best? Subsidiary HR autonomy and subsidiary performance pp. 83-96

Mila Lazarova, Hilla Peretz and Yitzhak Fried

Rapid internationalization and long-term performance: The knowledge link pp. 97-110

Raquel García-García, Esteban García-Canal and Mauro F. Guillén

Attention in words, not in deeds: Effects of attention dissonance on headquarters-subsidiary communication in multinational corporations pp. 111-123

Hammad ul Haq, Rian Drogendijk and Desirée Blankenburg Holm

Volume 51, issue 6, 2016

How are institutional capabilities transferred across borders? pp. 882-894

Michael Carney, Marleen Dieleman and Markus Taussig

Legitimizing the apprenticeship practice in a distant environment: Institutional entrepreneurship through inter-organizational networks pp. 895-909

Johann Fortwengel and Gregory Jackson

Institutionalizing entrepreneurial expertise in subsistence economies pp. 910-922

Adam Smith, William Judge, Amir Pezeshkan and Anil Nair

Institutional plasticity in public-private interactions: Why Japan’s port reform failed pp. 923-936

Faith Hatani

Making the foreign familiar: The influence of top management team and board of directors characteristics on the adoption of foreign practices pp. 937-949

Donghoon Shin, Russell Seidle and Ilya Okhmatovskiy

Firm-specific intangible assets and subsidiary profitability: The moderating role of distance, ownership strategy and subsidiary experience pp. 950-964

Farok Contractor, Yong Yang and Ajai S. Gaur

Ownership control of foreign affiliates: A property rights theory perspective pp. 965-976

Nigel Driffield, Tomasz Mickiewicz and Yama Temouri

The effect of cross-listing on the environmental, social, and governance performance of firms pp. 977-990

Barbara Del Bosco and Nicola Misani

Volume 51, issue 5, 2016

DIY: How internationalization shifts the locus of indigenous innovation for Chinese firms pp. 662-674

Marshall S. Jiang, Oana Branzei and Jun Xia

The role of experiential and non-experiential knowledge in cross-border acquisitions: The case of Indian multinational enterprises pp. 675-685

Peter J. Buckley, Surender Munjal, Peter Enderwick and Nicolas Forsans

Learning-by-doing in emerging market multinationals: Integration, trial and error, repetition, and extension pp. 686-699

Huaichuan Rui, Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra and C. Annique Un

Exploring the influence of resource environments on absorptive capacity development: The case of emerging market firms pp. 700-712

Tsvetomira V. Bilgili, Ben L. Kedia and Hansin Bilgili

Relevant knowledge and recipient ownership: Chinese MNCS’ knowledge transfer in Africa pp. 713-728

Huaichuan Rui, Miao Zhang and Alan Shipman

Emerging market multinational companies’ evolutionary paths to building a competitive advantage from emerging markets to developed countries pp. 729-743

Masaaki Kotabe and Tanvi Kothari

Mapping the evolution of the impact of economic transition on Central and Eastern European enterprises: A co-word analysis pp. 744-759

Margerita Topalli and Silvester Ivanaj

The evolution of inter-organisational social capital with foreign customers: Its direct and interactive effects on SMEs’ foreign performance pp. 760-773

Manuela Presutti, Cristina Boari and Luciano Fratocchi

From dilemmatic struggle to legitimized indifference: Expatriates’ host country language learning and its impact on the expatriate-HCE relationship pp. 774-786

Ling Eleanor Zhang and Anne-Wil Harzing

Mitigating the dual liability of newness and foreignness in capital markets: The role of returnee independent directors pp. 787-799

Weiwen Li, Garry D. Bruton and Igor Filatotchev

From uncertainty to risk—A risk management framework for market entry pp. 800-814

Jakob Müllner

How do Chinese employees react to psychological contract violation? pp. 815-825

Kelly Z. Peng, Chi-Sum Wong and Jiwen Lynda Song

Institutional difference, organizational experience, and foreign affiliate performance: Evidence from Polish firms pp. 826-842

Piotr Trąpczyński and Elitsa R. Banalieva

Subnational institutions, political capital, and the internationalization of entrepreneurial firms in emerging economies pp. 843-854

Xufei Ma, Zhujun Ding and Lin Yuan

Doing more with less, systematically? Bricolage and ingenieuring in successful social ventures pp. 855-870

Chamu Sunduramurthy, Congcong Zheng, Martina Musteen, John Francis and Lawrence Rhyne

Volume 51, issue 4, 2016

Revisiting the standing of international business journals in the competitive landscape pp. 487-498

Heinz Tüselmann, Rudolf Sinkovics and Grigory Pishchulov

MNE translation of corporate talent management strategies to subsidiaries in emerging economies pp. 499-510

Maria Teresa Beamond, Elaine Farndale and Charmine E.J. Härtel

International strategic alliances and national culture: Mapping the field and developing a research agenda pp. 511-524

Cristina López-Duarte, Miguel González-Loureiro, Marta M. Vidal-Suárez and Belén González-Díaz

FDI decisions and business-group insider control: Evidence from Taiwanese group-affiliated firms investing in the Chinese market pp. 525-533

Wen-Ting Lin

External managers, family ownership and the scope of SME internationalization pp. 534-547

D’Angelo, Alfredo, Antonio Majocchi and Trevor Buck

A systems perspective on offshoring strategy and motivational drivers amongst onshore and offshore employees pp. 548-567

Angelika Zimmermann and M.N. Ravishankar

Cultural values, emotional intelligence, and conflict handling styles: A global study pp. 568-585

Marjaana Gunkel, Christopher Schlaegel and Vas Taras

A socioemotional wealth perspective on how collaboration intensity, trust, and international market knowledge affect family firms’ multinationality pp. 586-599

Beate Cesinger, Mathew Hughes, Helge Mensching, Ricarda Bouncken, Viktor Fredrich and Sascha Kraus

Emerging economies and institutional quality: Assessing the differential effects of institutional distances on ownership strategy pp. 600-611

Ru-Shiun Liou, Mike Chen-Ho Chao and Monica Yang

The legitimacy of subsidiary issue selling: Balancing positive & negative attention from corporate headquarters pp. 612-627

Kieran M. Conroy and David G. Collings

An empirical analysis and extension of internalization theory in emerging markets: The role of firm-specific assets and asset dispersion in the multinationality-performance relationship pp. 628-640

Ahmet H. Kirca, Whitney Douglas Fernandez and Sumit K. Kundu

Tapping the power of local knowledge: A local-global interactive perspective pp. 641-653

Shenxue Li, Mark Easterby-Smith, Marjorie A. Lyles and Timothy Clark

Volume 51, issue 3, 2016

Aligning corporate transfer intentions and subsidiary HRM practice implementation in multinational corporations pp. 343-355

Catarina Ahlvik, Adam Smale and Jennie Sumelius

Environmental risks, localization and the overseas subsidiary performance of MNEs from an emerging economy pp. 356-368

Xiaohui Liu, Lan Gao, Jiangyong Lu and Eleni Lioliou

Institutional development and firm profitability in transition economies pp. 369-378

Mario Kafouros and Murod Aliyev

Strategy development: Driving improvisation in Malaysia pp. 379-390

Ian R. Hodgkinson, Paul Hughes and Darwina Arshad

The effect of social networks and dynamic internationalization capabilities on international performance pp. 391-403

José Carlos Pinho and Christiane Prange

Reconceptualizing cultural distance: The role of cultural experience reserve in cross-border acquisitions pp. 404-412

Manish Popli, Mohammad Akbar, Vikas Kumar and Ajai Gaur

Performance of professional service firms from emerging markets: Role of innovative services and firm capabilities pp. 413-424

Daniel C. Bello, Lori P. Radulovich, Javalgi, Rajshekhar (Raj) G., Robert F. Scherer and Jennifer Taylor

Too much of a good thing: Does international experience variety accelerate or delay executives’ career advancement? pp. 425-437

Dimitrios Georgakakis, Tobias Dauth and Winfried Ruigrok

The spatial structure of foreign subsidiaries and MNE expansion strategy pp. 438-450

Guoliang F. Jiang, Guy L.F. Holburn and Paul W. Beamish

Institutional duality and political strategies of foreign-invested firms in an emerging economy pp. 451-462

Yanlong Zhang, Wei Zhao and Jianhua Ge

The effects of institutional development and national culture on cross-national differences in corporate reputation pp. 463-473

David L. Deephouse, William Newburry and Abrahim Soleimani

Innovating across boundaries: A portfolio perspective on innovation partnerships of multinational corporations pp. 474-485

Erk P. Piening, Torsten Oliver Salge and Sebastian Schäfer

Volume 51, issue 2, 2016

What is beneficial for first-time SME-exporters from a transition economy: A diversified or a focused export-strategy? pp. 185-199

Desislava Dikova, Andreja Jaklič, Anže Burger and Aljaz Kuncic

How valuable is information and communication technology? A study of emerging economy enterprises pp. 200-211

Yadong Luo and Juan Bu

Internationalization process, impact of slack resources, and role of the CEO: The duality of structure and agency in evolution of cross-border acquisition decisions pp. 212-225

Dev K. Dutta, Shavin Malhotra and PengCheng Zhu

A gene-dependent climatoeconomic model of generalized trust pp. 226-236

Dejun Tony Kong

The determinants of tax haven FDI pp. 237-250

Chris Jones and Yama Temouri

Internationalization and innovation performance of emerging market enterprises: The role of host-country institutional development pp. 251-263

Jie Wu, Chengqi Wang, Junjie Hong, Panagiotis Piperopoulos and Shuaihe Zhuo

Host country network, industry experience, and international alliance formation: Evidence from the venture capital industry pp. 264-277

Jing Zhang and Amir Pezeshkan

Talent management motives and practices in an emerging market: A comparison between MNEs and local firms pp. 278-293

Ekrem Tatoglu, Alison J. Glaister and Mehmet Demirbag

Home country institutions and the internationalization of state owned enterprises: A cross-country analysis pp. 294-307

Saul Estrin, Klaus Meyer, Bo B. Nielsen and Sabina Nielsen

The psychology of psychic distance: Antecedents of asymmetric perceptions pp. 308-318

Lars Håkanson, Björn Ambos, Anja Schuster and Ulrich Leicht-Deobald

Institutional changes within the European Union: How global cities and regional integration affect MNE entry decisions pp. 319-330

Dane P. Blevins, Caterina Moschieri, Brian C. Pinkham and Roberto Ragozzino

The interactive effect of time and host country location on Chinese MNCs’ performance: An empirical investigation pp. 331-342

Lin Yuan, Nitin Pangarkar and Jie Wu

Volume 51, issue 1, 2016

A brief commentary on the past, present and future trajectory of the Journal of World Business pp. 6-9

Michael G. Harvey and Miriam Moeller

International business–government relations research 1945–2015: Concepts, typologies, theories and methodologies pp. 10-22

Jean J. Boddewyn

The social responsibility of international business: From ethics and the environment to CSR and sustainable development pp. 23-34

Ans Kolk

Corruption in international business pp. 35-49

Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra

Global corporate governance: On the relevance of firms’ ownership structure pp. 50-57

Ruth V. Aguilera and Rafel Crespi-Cladera

International strategy: From local to global and beyond pp. 58-73

Michael A. Hitt, Dan Li and Kai Xu

The contribution of internalisation theory to international business: New realities and unanswered questions pp. 74-82

Peter J. Buckley

An internalization theory perspective on the global and regional strategies of multinational enterprises pp. 83-92

Alain Verbeke and Liena Kano

Internationalization: From incremental to born global pp. 93-102

Gary A. Knight and Peter W. Liesch

The search for global competence: From international HR to talent management pp. 103-114

Wayne F. Cascio and John W. Boudreau

From cross-cultural management to global leadership: Evolution and adaptation pp. 115-126

Allan Bird and Mark E. Mendenhall

Evolving and enduring challenges in global mobility pp. 127-141

Paula Caligiuri and Jaime Bonache

New perspectives on human resource management in a global context pp. 142-152

Rosalie L. Tung

Technology, innovation and knowledge: The importance of ideas and international connectivity pp. 153-162

Ulf Andersson, Àngels Dasí, Ram Mudambi and Torben Pedersen

Cooperative strategies in international business and management: Reflections on the past 50 years and future directions pp. 163-175

Paul W. Beamish and Nathaniel C. Lupton

Headquarters–subsidiary relationships in MNCs: Fifty years of evolving research pp. 176-184

Tatiana Kostova, Valentina Marano and Stephen Tallman