This chapter discusses interfirm knowledge acquisition within strategic alliances. Focusing on buy-seller relationships, it assesses the extent to which a firm is able to discover its key clients’ deceitful behavior and how this promotes knowledge acquisition. Information sharing among...

This study examines the role of institutional complexity in innovation performance of emerging market multinationals (EMMs). This relationship also depends on top management team (TMT)-related factors, i.e., TMT foreign ties and TMT heterogeneity, and the stage of EMMs’ international...

This paper uses a Markov switching model (MSM) to decompose Macao’s tourism cycle into high and low growth states (HGS, LGS) for the period of 2005Q2–2017Q2. The likelihood of the cycle maintaining HGS is 93% but the risk of staying in LGS is 80%. The Macao cycle is favorably asymmetric,...

This article addresses the under-researched issue of how local firms in merging markets can counter the threat posed by the entry of multinational corporations (MNCs). Prior literature on this topic argues that the appropriate strategy for a local firm is dependent on its industry...

In this editorial paper, we pinpoint that most of the entrepreneurship scholarship lags the phenomena and central issues by a fair amount and various theories of management and strategy have been applied incorrectly, namely, using them to "tell us what to see" rather than ask "where do our...

In this study, we examine the strategies adopted by partners in multipartner alliances. Drawing from the literature, we argue that the inherent tensions in strategic alliances are accentuated in multipartner alliances, resulting in higher expected transaction costs. We hypothesize that, to deal...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze manufacturers' production decisions and governments' low-carbon policies in the context of influencer spillover effects. Design/methodology/approach This paper investigates the impact of the social influencer spillover effect on manufacturers'...

As a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) extension tool, cross-evaluation method was developed to evaluate Decision Making Units’ (DMUs) performances in a competitive situation with limited demand. It identifies DMUs with best performances and rank them by applying peer evaluation mode instead of...

This chapter examines the acquisition of assets (real estate) and companies in the Chinese real estate industry. We propose a nuanced view of state ownership (beyond state being the largest shareholder) and argue that firms with a combination of state and private ownership may be in a unique...