Multinational enterprises are deeply engaged in nonmarket strategy (NMS), including both
corporate political activity (CPA) and strategic corporate social responsibility (SCSR). In this …

We review and analyze the growing body of literature that addresses the institutional context
of international strategy. By examining articles in eleven major journals from January 2008 …

Sanctions are a tool used by political actors to induce foreign countries, firms or individuals
to alter their behavior. As nonmilitary coercive measure, they have the potential to disrupt the …

A New Normal environment for business has emerged in the years after the 2008 financial
crisis based on numerous changes in the world's economic, technological, demographic …

Acknowledging the importance of technology-driven acquisitions for China, and of host-
country intellectual property rights protection (IPRP) in the Tech Cold War era, this study …

International vertical alliances (IVAs) have garnered increasing scholarly interest in the
strategy and international business (IB) literature. Our review of 111 papers published in …

The increasing dynamism of the international business (IB) environment has drawn greater
scholarly attention to the implications of international politics for MNEs' cross-border …

Prior research has focused on how firms use a variety of organizational mechanisms to
protect their R&D investments from misappropriation risks in foreign countries. Little is …

We study how host country politics influence internationalization. Our meta‐analysis clarifies
which ideas receive support across the empirical literature and reveals new theoretical …

Drawing on the international relations literature, the purpose of this paper is to investigate
whether and when diplomatic relations between countries have an influence on firm …