Despite over three decades of research focusing on the choice multinational enterprises
make between establishing foreign operations through either cross-border acquisitions or …

We provide a comprehensive review of the growth of multinational enterprises (MNEs)
based on a quarter-century (25 years) of scholarly international business publications. We …

As one of the manifestations of economic globalization, cross-border research and
development (R&D) investment of multinational enterprises (MNEs) has become an …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of transnational entrepreneurs in
growing born global firms, with a focus on the growth process facilitated by collaborative …

Edith Penrose's (1959) classic book, The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, made a
substantial impact on strategic management research, especially in the context of the …

Firm resources play an important role in explaining the foreign establishment mode choice.
However, a theoretical framework that simultaneously a) differentiates between …

There is evidence to suggest that cross-border acquisitions by emerging market firms exhibit
a wave-like pattern. In this paper, we examine the timing of cross-border acquisitions with a …

abstract This paper develops a communication‐based theory of the choice by multinational
enterprises (MNEs) between greenfield and acquisition entry. It argues that MNE parents …

Research Summary Foreign direct investment establishment mode literature has focused on
the impact of unidimensional measures of institutional status, despite that institutional …

This paper addresses foreign direct investment (FDI) entry strategies of multinational
enterprises (MNEs) by analysing both establishment mode (greenfield investment vs …