Transnational Management provides an integrated conceptual framework to guide students and instructors through the challenges facing enterprises operating in today's complex worldwide environment. Through text narrative and cases, the authors skillfully examine the development of strategy,...

This chapter advances theory to explain how differences in firms’ ability to anticipate the outbreak of a violent conflict affect their foreign exit decisions. Drawing on the literature on firm vulnerability to exogenous shocks, the chapter explores how differences in anticipation affect...

Host country tax considerations are critical to multinational enterprise (MNE) foreign direct investment decisions, but understudied in international business (IB) research. We address this gap by examining the relationship between host country corporate income tax rates (HCCITRs) and foreign...

This study examines age dependence in the mortality of multinational corporations’ (MNCs’) subsidiaries by integrating various “theory fragments” of organizational ecology. Using a “nonmonotonic logic”, we hypothesize an inverted S-curve relationship between subsidiary age and...

We examine how organizational ecology and the strategic choice perspective can be combined to provide more contextualized insights into how multinational corporations (MNCs) can better counter environmental pressures with evolving subnational FDI legitimacy and improve the survival likelihood of...