Multinational Business Review: Volume 30 Issue 4

Industry globalization: construct, measurement and variation across industries

Rakesh B. Sambharya, Farok J. Contractor, Abdul A. Rasheed

The purpose of this paper is to identify some of the major issues relating to the conceptualization and operationalization of industry globalization.

Prevalence of the born-global phenomenon in different countries: an integrated perspective

Carlos-Javier Prieto-Sánchez, Fernando Merino

The main purpose of this study is to analyze how factors such as innovation, entrepreneurial spirit and motivation, as well as various economic and environmental factors, affect…

Board independence and firm internationalization: a meta-analysis

Ettore Spadafora, Kwabena Aboah Addo, Tatiana Kostova, Makafui Kwame Kumodzie-Dussey, Ezekiel Leo, Valentina Marano, Marc van Essen

Despite agency theory and resource dependence theory suggesting that – albeit through different mechanisms – board independence positively influences firm internationalization…

CEO polychronicity and SME internationalization

Arpita Agnihotri, Saurabh Bhattacharya

This study, leveraging the upper echelon and social network theories, aims to explore the association between chief executive officers (CEO’s) polychronicity and small and medium…

Are Latin American business groups different? An exploratory international political economy perspective

Michael Carney, Saul Estrin, Zhixiang Liang, Daniel Shapiro

This study aims to advance an international political economy (IPE) perspective that geo-political events can have long-lasting imprint effects on countries and their firms. The…

Foreign and domestic multinationals’ linkages in advanced, small open economies: do foreignness, regional origin and technological capability matter?

Joanna Scott-Kennel, Axèle Giroud, Iiris Saittakari

International business theory suggests that multinational enterprises (MNEs) seek to internalise resources embedded in local firms to complement their own through…