A faster pace of business-efficiency reforms in emerging economies creates a hyper-competitive business landscape, with global firms arriving with significantly better resources posing enormous challenges to incumbent firms. Using a data set of 55,068 firm-year observations from 37 nations...

According to the springboard perspective, emerging market multinationals (EMNE) seek strategic assets aggressively from the outset. In this paper, we investigate the role of firms' institutional embeddedness in terms of age and affiliation to business group on their aggressive...

The international business literature has long recognized the explanatory primacy of the upper echelon of a firm. This has resulted in an impressive volume of research examining the impact of demographic, psychographic, and experiential background of the managers on the actions and strategies of...

Cultural distance is one of the most widely used distance construct in international business. However, its application as having linear and homogenous impact on organizational actions and performance has long been questioned. In this paper, we attempt to redress this weakness by proposing the...