Purpose – The paper aims to examine the consequences of a cross‐border acquisition on business network changes in the Russian bakery industry. Design/methodology/approach – This study employs the IMP group's network approach to analyse the empirical single case study with two embedded...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to focus on analysing how foreign entry by a multinational enterprise (MNE) can act as a catalyst for change in field-level institutional logics in a transition economy context. Design/methodology/approach: The paper presents an empirical single-case study...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the forms of change that horizontal and vertical mergers and acquisitions (M & As) may evoke in acquired firms’ customer networks. M & As have increasingly become a dominant mechanistic growth path,pursued relentlessly by companies with...