Multinational Business Review: Volume 13 Issue 3

Towards An Understanding of Terrorism Risk in the MNE

Gabriele Suder, Michael R. Czinkota

Based on a literature review of terrorism and global business literature, this paper addresses those conditions that may lead to new considerations about risk and its management…

Explaining Imports and Exports: A Focus on Non‐Maquiladora Mexican Firms

Douglas E. Thomas, Robert E. Grosse

This paper examines both the imports and exports of nonmaquiladora Mexican firms, theorizing that importing is generally motivated by exploration for new resources and exporting…

Monitoring Reverse Logistics Programs: A Roadmap to Sustainable Development in Emerging Markets

R. Glenn Richey, Mert Tokman, Robert E. Wright, Michael G. Harvey

This manuscript develops a reverse logistics monitoring system for controlling reverse flows of materials through marketing channels in emerging economies. Institutional theory is…

An Examination of Cross‐cultural Differences in Attitudes Towards Risk: Testing Prospect Theory in the People’s Republic of China

Alan L. Brumagim, Wu Xianhua

A research stream known as prospect theory describes how decision biases lead to results that differ from those predicted by classical utility theory (Kahneman and Tversky, 1979)…

Managerial Incentives to Diversify and Shareholder Monitoring: Evidence from International Acquisitions

Dong‐Kyoon Kim, Chuck C. Y. Kwok, H. Young Baek

The authors examine how a firm’s risk change around an international acquisition is related to the managerial equity interest in the firm. Focusing on the international…

Launching A Consumer Product In China

Roger H. Marks

This article is an edited verion of a presentation by Roger Marks at the 2005 U.S. China Business Forum sponsored by the World Trade Center Chicago and the U.S. and Chicago…