Liability of foreignness (LOF) is a well known concept in international business domain. At the core of LOF is the insight that firms face social and economic costs when they operate in foreign markets. Extant literature acknowledges that the ability of firms to overcome LOF in host locations...

Sociological-based information theory and economics-based competitive rivalry theory operate as the dominant theories of interorganizational mimetic behavior. Recent work has sought to both integrate the ideas in these theories, or determine which has greater explanatory power. In this study, we...

Research on internationalization of emerging market firms (EMFs) has received an increasing attention in the international management field. A central argument in a majority of these studies is that the internationalization of EMFs is different from that of firms from developed economies, and...

This study surveys recent work, published in four International Business journals, that has focused on the non-manufacturing sector which includes the 'services' sector. It documents the nature of scholarship in this area, identifies opportunities for future work, highlights some important...

We review the literature analyzing the impact of pro-market institutions on firms' global strategy. We propose that the ideological tension between whether the government or the market should drive economic development results in a pendulum of pro-market reforms and reversals that drive changes...

We examine the impact of firm-level governance structure on the innovation and internationalization strategies of emerging market firms. We propose that in the case of emerging market firms, governance is a response to the prevailing institutional environment and affects the innovation and...