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...

<title>Abstract</title> This paper deals with Russian investments to ten Eastern European EU candidate countries. Eastern European countries are an important destination for Russian OFDI, and the share of Russia in many CEEC's inward FDI stock is substantial. Russian investments to these countries are mostly...

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...