Following a number of earlier studies on data equivalence in cross-cultural international business research, this article uses a content analysis of articles published in four leading international business journals from 2000 to 2009, to uncover the equivalence in current state of data...

Following a number of studies on the factors that might affect response rates in cross-national research, this work examines the types of incentives mentioned by international business scholars in mail surveys as well as how the use of such incentives affects the response rate. This work uses a...

Over the past decade, there has been growing interest in how multinational corporations (MNCs) can enter the base of the pyramid (BoP) market (London and Hart, 2004, Schuster and Holtbrügge, 2012, Tasavori et al., 2014, Dey et al., 2013). The BoP is composed of 1.4 billion people who earn...

In this paper it is argued that the restructuring following the stiffer competition stemming from increased global integration will trigger a race between countries to attract inward foreign direct investment (FDI). It is further argued that this race consists of last minute efforts and...