Research on the antecedents of foreign subsidiary divestment has grown in the last
decades. However, findings are ambiguous. We clarify this situation by providing, for 18 …

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 …

International market withdrawals by firms continue to persist regardless of geography,
industry, firm experience, and national origin. The extant literature argues that a host of …

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 …

Research on international divestment has identified a variety of factors that influence the
closure of individual subsidiaries. Drawing on the concept of operational flexibility, this …

We study antecedents of the international ownership strategies of Chinese multinational
enterprises (MNEs). Analyzing firm-level data on 380 outward acquisitions of Chinese MNEs …

We take the multinational flexibility perspective and examine the conditions under which
multinational corporations'(MNCs') foreign manufacturing subsidiaries in labor-intensive …

We examine how the exits of multinational companies' foreign subsidiaries from host
countries are foreshadowed by the irreversibility intrinsic to firms' entry modes and the …

In this paper, we examine how market conditions in host countries affect the entry and exit
decisions of multinational corporations' foreign subsidiaries. Taking the real options …

The literature has tended to overlook the great divergence in the competitive dynamics of
firms in emerging economies. Drawing on the strategic competitive dynamics literature and …