Research interests in product innovation and relevant success factors in an international context are increasing in the past decades. With the data from over 400 international joint ventures in China's manufacturing sector, this study explores China's institutional factors that may significantly...

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on high growth firms’ corporate governance. Specially, the study examines whether there is a negative impact of SOX on the interactive effect of board independence and investment opportunity set on firm...

This article examines the literature of international ethnic entrepreneurship research and explores its historical development over the past four decades. With citation data from Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), including 627 journal articles and 25,731 cited references, we conducted a...

Service quality and customer switching behavior are among the most important factors that affect service companies' market share and profitability, yet they remain understudied in China's service sectors. This study surveys 400 customers to explore the perceived importance of various aspects of...

This article explores the use of favors by emerging market managers, the impact of using favors on their firms’ growth, legitimacy, and reputation in a variety of business environments, and how the use of favors affects firms’ paths to international expansion. We discuss the concept of...

This article investigates the use of favors by managers of BRIC firms to accomplish business goals, the ethicality of which should be determined by the moral reasoning in these countries rather than from a developed country perspective. We define a favor as an exchange of outcomes between...