Multinational Business Review: Volume 30 Issue 1

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance in the context of multinational business research

Martina K. Linnenluecke

This paper aims to examine the state of research on environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance in the context of multinational business research. This paper discusses…

The multi-faceted impact of host country risk on the success of private participation in infrastructure projects

Alfredo Jiménez, Secil Bayraktar, Jeoung Yul Lee, Seong-Jin Choi

This paper aims to investigate the multi-faceted impact of host country risks on the success of private participation in infrastructure projects. The authors make a distinction…

Multilingual and multicultural managers’ effects on team performance: insights from professional football teams

Mike Szymanski, Ilan Alon, Komal Kalra

In this study, micro-foundations of strategy as the theoretical framework to study the effect of managers’ individual characteristics on multinational team performance are…

Industry life cycle, geographic diversification and performance of international new ventures

Nitin Pangarkar, Lin Yuan

The purpose of this paper is to examine how geographic diversification affects the performance of international new ventures.

Impact of the liability of foreignness, domicile of incorporation and an institutional change on reverse merger firms’ capital-raising performance

Ho Wook Shin, Seung-Hyun (Sean) Lee, Min-Jung Lee

The purpose of this study is to examine how the liability of foreignness (LOF), choice of incorporation and an institutional change independently and jointly affect a reverse…

Chinese SMEs in Germany: an exploratory study on OFDI motives and the role of China’s institutional environment

Fabian Hänle, Stefanie Weil, Bart Cambré

This paper aims to use the institutional perspective to jointly explore the underlying motives that drive Chinese private small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to invest in…

Corporate sustainability reporting in Japanese multinational enterprises: a threat to local legitimacy or an opportunity lost for corporate sustainability practices?

Masayoshi Ike, Jerome Denis Donovan, Cheree Topple, Eryadi Kordi Masli

This paper aims to investigate whether Japanese manufacturing multinational enterprises (MNEs) maintain local legitimacy in their host countries through adequate informing of…