Multinational Business Review: Volume 25 Issue 3

Industry 4.0, global value chains and international business

Roger Strange, Antonella Zucchella

This paper aims to provide an assessment of how the widespread adoption of new digital technologies (i.e. the Internet of things, big data and analytics, robotic systems and…

Resource availability, international acquisition experience, and cross-border M&A target search: A behavioral approach

Rimi Zakaria, Whitney Douglas Fernandez, William D. Schneper

The purpose of this study is to explain how factors relating to resource availability affect managerial risk-taking with regard to the geographic and institutional proximity of…

Impact of multilevel boundaries on internationalization: an exposition of region of origin effect

B. Elango, J.R. Wieland

In this paper, the authors aim to introduce the notion of region of origin effect and articulate why home region boundaries should be factored in when understanding firm strategy…

Different role of lobbying and bribery on the firm performance in emerging markets

Hyung Rok Yim, Jiangyong Lu, Seong-jin Choi

Firms influence a government to their advantage in one of two ways: either through lobbying a government to change the rule, or through bribing bureaucrats to circumvent the rule…

Fuel exports, aid and terrorism

Simplice Asongu, Jacinta Nwachukwu

This study aims to use interactive quantile regressions to assess the conditional role of foreign aid in reducing the potentially negative effect of terrorism on fuel exports in…