The location choice of foreign direct investments: Empirical evidence and methodological challenges

BB Nielsen, CG Asmussen, CD Weatherall - Journal of World Business, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

International strategy: From local to global and beyond

MA Hitt, D Li, K Xu - Journal of world business, 2016 - Elsevier
To survive and thrive, multinational enterprises (MNEs) have had to adapt to dramatic
changes and increasing complexity in the global competitive landscape over the past 50 …

The signaling effect of corporate social responsibility in emerging economies

W Su, MW Peng, W Tan, YL Cheung - Journal of business Ethics, 2016 - Springer
What signals do firms in emerging economies send to stakeholders when they adopt
corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices? We argue that in emerging economies, firms …

Diplomatic and corporate networks: Bridges to foreign locations

J Li, KE Meyer, H Zhang, Y Ding - Journal of International Business …, 2018 - Springer
Firms and governments operate in broad networks in which the home government and its
diplomatic service are a critical node–or a “referral point”–between firms and potential …

Linking theory and context:'Strategy research in emerging economies' after Wright et al.(2005)

D Xu, KE Meyer - Journal of management studies, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
abstract Emerging economies provide a laboratory for investigating the interaction between
firm strategies and local contexts. Mike Wright and colleagues have shaped this research …

Adapting and sustaining operations in weak institutional environments: A business ecosystem assessment of a Chinese MNE in Central Africa

R Parente, K Rong, JMG Geleilate, E Misati - Journal of International …, 2019 - Springer
Multinational enterprises (MNEs) sometimes pursue opportunities in largely uncharted,
distinctive institutional environments. How do these firms sustain operations in such …

Foreign location choice: Review and extensions

JU Kim, RV Aguilera - International Journal of Management …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
International Business (IB) research on foreign‐location choice has experienced a revival in
recent years, yet a comprehensive review has been sorely lacking. The purpose of this …

Managing talent in emerging economy multinationals: Integrating strategic management and human resource management

KE Meyer, KR **n - The International Journal of Human Resource …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Having established their first overseas operation, the next big challenge for many emerging
economy multinational enterprises (EMNEs) is to align their HRs with their strategic …

Sub‐national institutional contingencies, network positions, and IJV partner selection

W Shi, SL Sun, MW Peng - Journal of Management Studies, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
abstract The differences in sub‐national institutions within large and complex emerging
economies have been increasingly noted. Drawing on social network theory and the …

Internationalization as an evolutionary process

GD Santangelo, KE Meyer - Journal of International Business Studies, 2017 - Springer
Abstract The Johanson and Vahlne model of internationalization has been the main
foundation of process research in international business since 1977. This model, also …