The choice of location of foreign direct investments (FDI) by multinational enterprises
(MNEs) has been the subject of intense scrutiny for decades and continues to be so. Yet, the …

The international business (IB) literature has always analyzed multinational enterprises
(MNEs) as firms that internalize market transactions across national borders. Over the last …

We analyze methodological trends in empirical research in JIBS from 1970 to 2019. Our
results point to the prevalence of the following patterns: there has been an increase in the …

The new techno-economic paradigm of the information age has brought about new
structures and processes in international business (IB). In this article, we examine the …

There has been a significant increase in scholarly research focusing on marketing
capabilities as an important aspect of marketing theory–based explanations of firm …

Much of the rising international connectedness of city-regions has developed from MNEs
replacing local connections with (superior) international ones. This often creates local …

Many manuscripts submitted to the Journal of International Business Studies propose an
interaction effect in their models in an effort to explain the complexity and contingency of …

Spurred by the classic work of Dunning, MNE location has become the focus of a growing
body of research in the field. In this paper we argue that international business (IB) research …

With the advent of multinational corporations, the traditional urban service function has' gone
global'. In order to provide services to globalizing corporate clients, the offices of major …

Global scaling–defined as a logic of multinationalization that seeks rapid growth through the
replication of a global business model across foreign markets–is an increasingly visible real …