Data on 19,653 firms from 73 emerging economies on four continents were analyzed to examine how a firm's marketing capabilities affect its performance. The results show that the relationship is systematically moderated by the level of institutional development in an emerging market. Economic...

This study unbundled institutional environment into two distinct aspects: institutional distance (the degree of dissimilarity between the institutional environment of a firm’s home country and an economy into which it expands) and institutional diversity (the variety of all the institutional...

Research Summary: Drawing on entrepreneurial finance theory, we examine the trade-offs among different sources of capital for entrepreneurial firms in emerging economies and their impact on innovation. In emerging economies, one of the unique aspects of firm financing is the presence of informal...

This study investigates the extent to which strong relationships between a firm and its key suppliers promote effective new product introduction. Building on the relationship marketing literature, we identify self-enforcement and interdependence as two contingent relational variables that...

We propose that home country institutional environment shapes emerging market firms’ foreign expansion. We argue that better-developed home country institutional environment promotes emerging market firms’ expansion to foreign markets more advanced than the home country, while institutional...

This article examined the effects of knowledge search breadth and CEO tenure success in product innovation. Building on knowledge search literature and attention-based theory, the study posited that the breadth of a firm’s external knowledge search has a curvilinear effect on its product...

Following the efficiency logic that argues process quality management provides an important basis for firms’ internal controls over their innovation activities, this study which is set within emerging markets extends the literature by shedding light upon an interesting phenomenon: employing...

Our study reveals the financial performance implications of the speed at which Chinese multinational enterprises (CMNEs) expand into intra-regional versus inter-regional host countries. In doing so, we propose a framework that integrates internationalization speed and home regionalization...

In this study, we integrate resource dependence theory and agencytheory to argue that state ownership has a dual (inducement and constraint) effect onemerging market firms’ export performance. Building on this inducement-constraintframework, we hypothesize a non-linear relationship between...

We examine how host-country institutional development influences innovation performance of internationalized emerging market enterprises (EMEs). Our panel-data analysis of Chinese EMEs shows that although host-country institutional development on average enhances innovation performance of the...