This paper presents a review and critique of the 20-year-old literature on institutional
distance, which has greatly proliferated. We start with a discussion of the three institutional …

This article, to date, is the first to consolidate, review, and integrate over 250 earlier studies
that examine the country-specific determinants of cross-border mergers and acquisitions …

Global online platforms match firms with service providers around the world, in services
ranging from software development to copywriting and graphic design. Unlike in traditional …

Merger and acquisition (M&A) have become a foremost strategic alliance for business,
product and geographic tactics in global market. Using meta-literature review, we conduct a …

Distance is a central concept in international business research, yet there is debate about
the construct as well as its operationalization. In this editorial, we address three of the most …

Global organizations are inherently complex. The spatial dispersion of activities results in
organizational subunits becoming embedded in local host‐country contexts that differ from …

Despite the long-standing research interest in the pre-deal phase of mergers and
acquisitions, many important questions remain unanswered. We review and synthesize the …

Purpose Cross-border flow of knowledge is fraught with many challenges. The complexity
associated with the organization of multinational corporations (MNCs), and the information …

Extant literature on foreign entry increasingly recognizes firms' heterogeneity as a potential
reason for inconsistency in results on the establishment mode choice, that is, whether and …

Prior research on post-acquisition performance suggests positive, negative, or no wealth
creation for the acquiring firms. Grounding our arguments on the extended resource-based …