This paper reviews the literature on the effects of distance arising from country differences
on outcomes at the firm and subsidiary level. It provides some clarity on what has been …

This paper reviews the extant and emerging perspectives on, and approaches to, political
risk management, particularly in the context of foreign direct investment. The authors identify …

Varying institutional environments provide the foundation for a great deal of international
business (IB) research yet relatively little empirical work has examined the association …

During the recent decade, the world has witnessed the rapid growth of MNEs from emerging
economies. Their increasing participation in cross-border mergers and acquisitions has …

This paper aims at analyzing the effect of external uncertainty on the entry mode choice
when investing abroad. We consider the effect of uncertainty coming from the formal host …

Prior research on the role of international joint ventures (IJV) in the emerging markets
generally ignores the impact of information exchange on IJV performance as well as the …

This article presents an in-depth review and critique of previous research on international
joint venture (IJV) performance over the past 10 years. In doing so, the authors tease out the …

The internationalization strategies of family businesses versus nonfamily businesses remain
a neglected area of study. This investigation uses a sample of 759 Japanese subsidiaries …

Studies of how firms respond to host country risk have assigned explanatory primacy to
organizational capability and managerial risk preference. The organization-level account is …

This paper examines the relationship between an organization's country-of-origin and the
acceptance into a host country environment by constituents such as vendors, suppliers, and …