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 …

The fast-growing interest in de-internationalization research calls for a comprehensive
synthesis of extant literature to identify paths for future research. We have responded to this …

Despite garnering an increasing amount of scholarly attention in the past three decades, the
literature on foreign divestment is characterised by inconsistent theoretical arguments and …

More and more firms are entering foreign markets. However, while research on international
entry and expansion has been a particularly important topic in the literature, there has been …

We provide a comprehensive review of the growth of multinational enterprises (MNEs)
based on a quarter-century (25 years) of scholarly international business publications. We …

Past research on foreign divestment has recognized the impact of economic and political
differences 1. However, the prior findings remain equivocal. We adopt the Positive …

This study investigated how the liability of outsidership affects emerging-market
multinationals. We argue that besides lack of access to local networks, lack of access to …

Foreign market re-entry has increasingly attracted academic interest. However, different
streams of research have developed largely independently of each other, which has …

This paper discusses the impact of political factors on MNEs' strategic choices to divest their
foreign operations with a focus on Russian MNEs. The rising anti-globalization sentiments …

The high divestment rates of acquired foreign units indicate challenges connected to
planning and management of foreign acquisitions. In this paper we analyze the moderating …