Multinational Business Review: Volume 19 Issue 1

Intermediate products and the regionalization of trade

Louise Curran, Soledad Zignago

This paper aims to exploit a new trade database to explore the extent to which trade, and the industrial division of labor which it represents, is regional in nature.

An empirical note on regionalization and globalization

Syed H. Akhter, Colleen Beno

Is it regionalization or globalization that more accurately depicts the state of the global economy? Exports and foreign direct investments (FDI) data are analyzed with the aim of…

A commentary on the gravity equation in international business research

Michele U. Fratianni, Francesco Marchionne, Chang Hoon Oh

This commentary aims to discuss methodological issues and practical concerns of international business scholars who apply the gravity equation in their research.

The empirical literature on multinational enterprises, subsidiaries and performance

Quyen T.K. Nguyen

This paper aims to provide a synthetic review of the empirical literature on the multinational enterprise (MNE), subsidiaries and performance.

Internationalization, internalization and the performance of US biopharmaceutical SMEs

Lei Li, Dan Li, Weilei (Stone) Shi

The purpose of this study is to investigate the multinationality‐performance (M‐P) relationship in the context of US biopharmaceutical small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs).

New Challenges for International Business Research: Back to the Future

Stephen Chen

Moving MBR to Emerald and the domain of MBR

Alan M. Rugman