The emergence of a "second wave" of developing-country multinational enterprises (MNEs) in a variety of industries is one of the characterizing features of globalization. This paper documents how emerging markets' MNEs (EM-MNEs) may follow quite different patterns to reach, or at least approach,...

A sustainable pathway for Africa in the twenty-first century is laid out in the setting of the development of innovation capabilities and the capture of latecomer advantages. Africa has missed out on these possibilities in the twentieth century while seeing the East Asian countries advance....

While the evidence accumulates that many countries are fashioning aspects of green development to complement their black, fossil-fueled industries, the case for a wholesale adoption of green development strategies is seldom made. Instead, it is frequently assumed that green development can only...

Innovation and entrepreneurship are based on new combinations, constructed within social networks. The literature on social networks refers to Schumpeter’s analysis of new combinations, but is limited in its use of his understanding of the range of innovations and long-term aspects of...

There have been recent calls for the field of International Business to retool its routines by becoming genuinely interdisciplinary. This paper takes such an approach by using recent advances in the fields of evolutionary economics and applying them to IB. Evolutionary economists are now viewing...

Using Faff's (2015, 2019) pitching research template as a base (first-phase scholarly pitch), Faff and Kastelle (2016) develop a research pitch tool targeting non-academic external stakeholders/end users. The “pitching research for engagement and impact” (PR4EI) second-phase pitch augments...

The study evaluates the issues related to the manpower planning for developing the information, communication and technology (ICT) industry under the economic restructuring in Singapore and Taiwan. Using data collected from 211 multinational companies (MNCs) operating in these two countries, we...