Multinational Business Review: Volume 16 Issue 1

Outstanding International Business Research: Nature of the Best International Business Dissertations

Raj Aggarwal, Victor Petrovic, John K. Ryans, Sijing Zong

Based on fifteen years of data on the annual Academy of International Business (AIB) best dissertation Farmer Award finalists, we find that these dissertations were done at a…

Global Decision‐Making: The Role of Managerial Curiosity in Assessing Potentially Disruptive Information Technologies

Gary Garrison, Michael Harvey, Nancy Napier

This paper examines the role of managerial curiosity as a critical factor in determining the future impact of disruptive information technologies in a global organization…

Multinationality, R&D Intensity, and Firm Performance: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing Firms

Sung C. Bae, Bell J. C. Park, Xiaohong Wang

We examine whether firms’ multinationality leads to better performance and what the role of R&D investment is in the multinationality performance linkage. Unlike the previous…

A Comparison of Capital Structure Determinants: The United States and The Republic of Korea

Hanjoon Kim, Paul D. Berger

This paper investigates the determinants of the capital structure of large corporations headquartered in the United States and Korea. We consider five explanatory variables…

Estimating the Dynamic Impact of Financial Liberalization on Equity Returns in Southeast Asian Markets

Harridutt Ramcharran, Doseong Kim

Recent studies of the impact of financial liberalization in emerging markets have not examined the dynamic impact of the liberalization process on equity returns despite the…