Multinational Business Review: Volume 31 Issue 2

From TMT multiculturalism to strategic agility: business model innovation in MNEs

C. Lakshman, Jorge Gonzalez

This study aims to theoretically explore the relationship between potential antecedents of business model innovation (BMI) in multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the paths…

Unintended change of ownership structure and acquisition of IJVs: the effect of initial structural conditions

Hamza Aib, Jacques Liouville, Hemant Merchant

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the effect of initial international joint ventures (IJV) structural conditions on two main equity-based instability facets: change of…

International alliance networks, expansion modes and coopetition

Luis Miguel Bolivar, Cristóbal Casanueva, Ignacio Castro Abancéns

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) strive to expand into new markets either by exploiting their resource base or by gaining access to partner companies that own the required…

Export duration and product innovations: do born globals learn by exporting differently?

Sui Sui, Matthias Baum, Dandan Li

This paper aims to study the learning-by-exporting effect among small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Specifically, the authors propose a dynamic perspective and suggest that…

Influence of target industry growth on premiums in cross-border acquisitions

Ralf Bebenroth, Kashif Ahmed

In this paper, the knowledge-based view of the firm is applied to theoretically elucidate and empirically examine the influence of target industry growth on premium payments in…

Productivity gap and expatriate utilization

Sooyoung Lee, Unjung Whang, Sihoon Nahm, Chang Hoon Oh

This paper aims to investigate how the gap between a multinational enterprise’s (MNE) productivity and that of its competitor determines the utilization of expatriate managers in…

Market exit and re-entry in a volatile emerging economy: a case study of Yamaha motorcycles in Pakistan

Huda Khan, Nadia Zahoor, Ahmad Arslan, Zaheer Khan

This study aims to understand the dynamics underpinning the exit and re-entry strategies adopted by multinational enterprises (MNEs) in an emerging market, Pakistan.