In the global environment, organizations around the world are constantly facing challenges to build competitive advantage. “The global world is characterized by more competition, diverse workforce, continuously changing customer needs, and new technology changes”(Gupta, 2011, p. 510). Given...

This paper scrutinizes the effects of geographic proximity of the host region to the domestic country of the investor, and the results indicate that determinants such as language and opposing cultural or political systems may be indirectly responsible for the increase in uncertainty concerning...