Multinational Business Review: Volume 31 Issue 1

Taking the long view of the multinational

André Sammartino, David Merrett, Pierre van der Eng, Simon Ville

This paper argues for the benefits to international business (IB) of taking a much longer view at the engagement by multinational enterprises (MNEs) with host locations.

Integrating external actors into the microfoundations of practice transfer in MNEs: a research agenda

Ahmed A.F.M. Hassan, Johann Fortwengel

The transfer of organizational practices in multinational enterprises (MNEs), typically from the headquarters to foreign subsidiaries, has been a key theme in international…

Family firms and international equity-based entry modes: a systematic literature review

Barbara Maggi, Claudia Pongelli, Salvatore Sciascia

Although research on family firms (FF) internationalization has seen a boom over the past 30 years, the understanding of how FFs internationalize with equity modes is still…

Politics, rumors and identity: how does a domestic firm challenge an MNE in the non-market environment amidst home–host political hostility?

Cheng-Hua Tzeng

Prior studies of competitive dynamics in emerging economies restricted their attention to how the multinational enterprise (MNE) initiates actions against the domestic firm in the…

Formal institutions, type of diversification and the diversification – performance relationship: a meta-analysis

Peter Tashman, Ettore Spadafora, Dominik Pascal Manfred Wagner

The authors meta-analyze research on the diversification–performance relationship to empirically establish the impact of home-country formal institutional quality on this…

CEO characteristics, multinationality and downside risk: evidence from Chinese multinational corporations

Chao Zhou

Real options theory posits that multinationality provides additional operating flexibility and helps firms reduce downside risk. This study aims to explore the effects of chief…

Overseas compliance risk prevention for multinational corporations in a law and economics perspective: empirical evidence from Chinese MNCs

Feiqiong Chen, Jieru Zhu, Wenjing Wang

This paper aims to investigate whether executive compensation and internal control can prevent overseas compliance risks through the mediating influence of multinational…