Multinational Business Review: Volume 20 Issue 4

The international performance of standardizing and customizing Spanish firms: The M curve relationships

Paloma Almodóvar

This paper aims to shed new light on the multinationality‐performance debate by examining the performance of standardizing versus customizing firms from Spain.

Regional strategies, liability of foreignness, and firm performance

Alina Kudina

This paper seeks to analyze the performance implications of the regional and global strategies pursued by multinational companies. It aims to argue that a firm could experience…

Can strong home country institutions foster the internationalization of MNEs?

Xiaoming He, Lin Cui

While many studies on institutional environment have primarily focused on the influence of the host country environment, limited insights have been offered on how the different…

A note on geographical diversification and performance of the world's largest reinsurance groups

J. François Outreville

This paper aims to examine the relationship between geographical diversification and the underwriting performance for the world's largest reinsurance groups. It also aims to…

Special issue on the environmentally responsible management and international competitiveness

Advancing empirical research in international business

Alan M. Rugman

Special issue on the Arab Spring and the multinational enterprise: challenges and opportunities