Cross Cultural & Strategic Management: Volume 28 Issue 2

Editorial

Abby Jingzi Zhou, Peter J. Williamson, Rosalie L. Tung

Post-entry growth in scope and scale among Chinese multinational enterprises: a structural embeddedness explanation

Xuanya Shi, Francis Boadu, Yifei Du

Both the scope of postentry growth and the scale of postentry growth are essential for Chinese multinational enterprises' aggressive internationalization. Yet, prior literature…

From focus to ambidexterity: the choice of catch-up strategy for EMNEs

Xinmin Peng, Keyi Fang, Martin Lockett

Emerging-market multinational enterprises (EMNEs) can choose focused or ambidextrous strategies to catch up with global market leaders through overseas foreign direct investment…

The too-much-of-a-good-thing effect of new ventures' opportunity development on innovation strategy under the Chinese context

Miaomiao Yin, Bingyu Zhou

The purpose of this research is to reveal how to improve the quality of entrepreneurship by exploring the key factor, opportunity development, impacting the innovation strategy of…

How relationship quality, autonomous work motivation and socialization experience influence the adjustment of self-initiated expatriates in China

Milad T. Jannesari, Sherry E. Sullivan

The continued expansion of organizations outside China's planned economy due to the Belt-and-Road Initiative (BRI) is expected to increase recruitment of self-initiated…

The impact of organizational position level and cultural flow direction on the relationship between cultural intelligence and expatriate cross-border adaptation

Ying Zhang, Yuran Li, Mark Frost, Shiyu Rong, Rong Jiang, Edwin T.C. Cheng

This paper aims to examine the critical role played by cultural flow in fostering successful expatriate cross-border transitions.

Dynamic transformation of communal and exchange schemata in multicultural relationships

Leigh Anne Liu, Chi-Yue Chiu, Zhi-Xue Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to conceptually distinguish between communal and exchange relationship schemata and analyze their dynamic interactions and transformations in…

A test of Hofstede's model of culture following his own approach

Michael Minkov, Anneli Kaasa

Recent studies exposed serious issues with Hofstede's popular model of culture, especially his uncertainty avoidance (UA) and masculinity-femininity (MAS–FEM) dimensions. However…

Expatriate demographic characteristics and host country national support: an empirical investigation in Central/South America

Arup Varma, Young-Jae Yoon, Fabian Jintae Froese

The support of host country nationals (HCNs) is critical for expatriate adjustment and performance. Drawing from social identity theory and self-categorization theory, this study…

Limiting role of resource dependence: an examination of director interlocks, board meetings and family ownership

Vidya Sukumara Panicker, Rajesh Srinivas Upadhyayula

This paper attempts to examine the activity and involvement of board of directors in internationalization activities of firms in emerging markets, by evaluating the resource…

The role of subnational cultural value on animosity: the China-South Korea THAAD crisis

Jeoung Yul Lee, Joong In Kim, Alfredo Jiménez, Alessandro Biraglia

This study examines the impact of situational and stable animosities on quality evaluation and purchase intention while also testing the moderating effects of within- and…