European Business Review: Volume 32 Issue 1

Guest editorial

Anders Pehrsson, Rosalina Torres

The effects of market and entrepreneurial orientation on the ambidexterity of multinational companies’ subsidiaries

Fellipe Silva Martins, Wagner Cezar Lucato, Leonardo Vils, Fernando Antonio Ribeiro Serra

This study aims to explore the effect of crises on multinational companies’ (MNC) subsidiaries’ performance. It is hypothesized that crisis-led business underperformance will lead…

Do types of strategic orientations make a difference?: A study of MNCs’ performance in foreign markets

Tobias Pehrsson

The purpose of this paper is to create a new research direction within the domain of firms’ strategic orientations.

Level of education and knowledge, foresight competency and international entrepreneurship: A study of human capital determinants in the European countries

Vahid Jafari-Sadeghi, Salman Kimiagari, Paolo Pietro Biancone

Global economies are involved with enormous activities of internationalization that provide pure and untapped opportunities for entrepreneurs and businesses to place and promote…

Internationalization of SMEs and market orientation: A study of customer knowledge, networks and cultural knowledge

Soniya Billore, Gautam Billore

This paper aims to study the context of market orientation and the contribution of customer knowledge, networking and cultural knowledge to market orientation particularly to the…

Exploiting market-oriented collective learning cycle to leverage competitive advantage at a foreign subsidiary in emerging markets

Gamal Mohamed Shehata

The purpose of this paper is to examine how a foreign subsidiary operates in emerging markets and integrates market orientation with organizational learning to achieve a…