Managerial cognition has a fundamental role in the internationalization of firms. However,
there exists no coherent understanding of how prior research has examined and captured …

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 …

Focusing on the initial stage of foreign market selection (ie, narrowing a set of potential
countries from which to make a final choice), we theorize that manager's country familiarity …

Informal institutions such as Guanxi play a critical role in compensating for insufficient formal
institutions in emerging markets. Arising from the institutional evolution, Chinese …

The aim of this paper is to highlight the importance of the firm's strategic objectives regarding
the choice of countries for foreign expansion, complementing the existing literature on the …

Immigrants and sustained international migration are transforming developed Western
countries at an unprecedented pace and scale. Sustained international migration is also …

Global Marketing, 3rd edition, provides students with a truly international treatment of the key
principles that every marketing manager should grasp. International markets present …

We expand the conceptualization of psychic distance and use a multilevel framework by
studying it as a founder's psychic distance in the pre-entry phase of entering a specific …

The concept of psychic distance has several entrenched assumptions that have not been put
to sufficient systematic scrutiny. We address this gap by investigating the assumptions of …

Taking a longitudinal approach, we analyze how the evolution of different dimensions of
social capital between an SME (Small and Medium enterprise) and its key foreign customers …