European Business Review: Volume 22 Issue 6

Combinations of partners' joint venture formation motives

Elko Klijn, Jeffrey J. Reuer, Peter J. Buckley, Keith W. Glaister

Prior research on joint venture (JV) formation often examines a single focal firm and assumes it has a single motive for collaboration. This study seeks to investigate how…

Rethinking the current dominant approach to business school strategy

Azaddin Salem Khalifa

The aim of the paper is twofold: to question the current use of the extant competitive strategy frameworks imported from the context of the business firm; and to call for…

Internationalization of small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises: a multi case study

Mohamed Amal, Alexandre Rocha Freitag Filho

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the determinants of the internationalization of small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). More specifically, it is to test the effects of…

Leadership as engagement, leadership as system development: A contextualised Ghanaian study

Bill Buenar Puplampu

This paper uses data about the challenges and difficulties confronting organisations and leaders to advance a dualized meaning of corporate leadership in the context of a…

Doing business in China: is the importance of guanxi diminishing?

Jonathan Wilson, Ross Brennan

Guanxi has been well documented as being an essential part of doing business in China. Yet, as China continues with market liberalisation, there are indications that its strategic…