Parietti addresses one of the most important topic scrutinized by the scholars of International Business. Distance between two countries is a multidimensional concept, including not only a geographical dimension but also other dimensions related to the culture, the administrative, political and...

We model firms' allocation of resources across surplus-creating (i.e., productive) and surplus-appropriating (i.e., rent-seeking) activities. Our model predicts that industry-wide technological advancements, such as recent progress in data collection and processing, induce a disproportionate and...

Introduction -- Literature Review - Theoretical and Conceptual Foundations -- Development of the Conceptual Model and Hypotheses -- Qualitative Research: Model and Hypotheses Refinement -- Quantitative Research: Questionnaire Design and Data Collection -- Results -- Discussion, Managerial...