Multinational Business Review: Volume 16 Issue 3

Global Corporate Ventures: A New Trend of International Corporate Entrepreneurship

Stephen K. Callaway

Two hot topics today in the popular press as well as academic literature are international entrepreneurship and corporate entrepreneurship. These topics challenge two traditional…

The Cost of Doing Business Abroad in Emerging Markets and the Role of MNC Parent Companies

Roger (Rongxin) Chen

This study examines the impact of MNC parents on the cost of doing business abroad (CDBA) of their foreign subsidiaries in emerging markets. Based on a case research, we found…

A Pan‐European Approach to Customer Satisfaction: An Optimal Strategy?

Linda C. Ueltschy, Michel Laroche, Paulo Rita, Claudia Bocaranda

This study investigated the viability of using a Pan‐European approach for professional service offerings in Europe by first establishing measurement equivalence and then…

Autonomy, Embeddedness, and the Performance of Foreign Owned Subsidiaries

Frank McDonald, Svetlana Warhurst, Matthew Allen

This paper investigates whether changes in autonomy and embeddedness in host locations by foreign owned subsidiaries are associated with improvements in performance by…

International Joint Venture Configurations in Big Emerging Markets

Hemant Merchant

Empirical studies of the shareholder valuation impact of firms’ international joint venture (IJV) participation have usually emphasized firm‐specific factors, but rarely extended…