Summary Repeated partnerships in international strategic alliances (ISAs) should mitigate the effects of an under-established institutional framework, lower transaction costs, and create the conditions for the exploitation of firm-specific capabilities by multinational corporations (MNCs)....

The external business environment is a major determinant of which sources firms select to obtain financial capital. We examine how the regulatory, political, and financial dimensions of the institutional environment influence the extent to which firms rely on informal sources of financial...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to conduct a study on the articles published in the four top international business (IB) journals to examine how four cultural models and concepts – Hofstede’s (1980), Hall’s (1976), Trompenaars’s (1993) and Project GLOBE’s (House et al. , 2004)...