Multinational Business Review: Volume 29 Issue 1

The business responsibility matrix: a diagnostic tool to aid the design of better interventions for achieving the SDGs

Noemi Sinkovics, Rudolf R. Sinkovics, Jason Archie-Acheampong

This paper aims to propose an integrative framework that enables the mapping of firm activities along two dimensions of responsible business behavior: a width and a depth…

Adaptive learning in cross-sector collaboration during global emergency: conceptual insights in the context of COVID-19 pandemic

Ahmad Arslan, Ismail Golgeci, Zaheer Khan, Omar Al-Tabbaa, Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen

The purpose of this paper is to examine the important role of cross-sector partnerships and collaboration in global emergency management, relevant in situations such as the…

A systematic review of international franchising

Ilan Alon, Indri Dwi Apriliyanti, Massiel Carolina Henríquez Parodi

This paper aims to provide a bibliometric meta-analysis of the already substantial and growing literature on international franchising. Franchising is a model for businesses to…

Does international expansion constrain growth? Business groups, internationalization, institutional distance, and the Penrose effect

Wen-Ting Lin, Ying-Yu Chen, David Ahlstrom, Linda C. Wang

This paper aims to use the institutional and information-processing perspectives to explore their association with between internationalization and the Penrose effect phenomenon…

Does origin matter? The impact of the institutional environment of the origin country on the internationalization of franchise chains

Andrea Giovani Lanfranchi, Suzane Strehlau, Felipe Mendes Borini, Pedro Lucas de Resende Melo

The purpose of this research is to identify the impacts of the country of origin of a franchise chain on its commitment in the destination countries, verifying the institutional…

The bridging role of regional headquarters. Multinational companies in the Asia-Pacific region

Bruno Amann, Jacques Jaussaud, Johannes Schaaper

Large multinational companies (MNCs) are strongly formalized, often standardized and complex with multiple hierarchical levels. Over the past few decades, MNCs have strengthened…