Multinational Business Review: Volume 28 Issue 4

International rivalry and global business leadership: an historical perspective

Mark Casson

This paper aims to introduce economic history as a new stream of international business (IB) research. It offers a long-term perspective on how the IB has evolved over time…

Internationalisation theory and Born Globals

Nigel Wadeson

It has been claimed that Born Globals are incompatible with the Uppsala model, which is based on the firm having a maximum tolerable risk level. This assumption was used to…

How outward investment from emerging markets affects economic development at home: using the eclectic paradigm to synthesize two IB literatures

Guus Hendriks

This paper aims to use the eclectic paradigm as a broad organizing framework to bring together two somewhat parallel international business (IB) literatures, one on the…

FDI inflows and intellectual property rights for MNEs in emerging markets: an alternative approach through the lens of trademarks in Vietnam (1986-2016)

Amy Linh Thuy Nguyen

While the current anti-globalisation wave is considered as a regional and cyclical relapse among Western countries, the new era of globalisation has shifted away from stagnant…

Third-country nationals as intercultural boundary spanners in multinational corporations

Christoph Barmeyer, Volker Stein, Jenny Marie Eberhardt

This paper aims to investigate the central roles, functions and competences of third-country nationals (TCNs) in intercultural boundary spanning in multinational corporations…

Uncertainty avoidance culture, cash holdings and financial crisis

Quoc Trung Tran

This paper aims to investigate how the global financial crisis affects the relationship between uncertainty avoidance culture and corporate cash holdings.

Attitudinal commitment in firms’ de-internationalization processes

Andrea Kuiken, Robert Wentrup, Roger Schweizer

This paper aims to examine the de-internationalization process to determine how different forms of attitudinal commitment influence the de-internationalization process.