Review of International Business and Strategy: Volume 31 Issue 2

The role of national distance in international business: a review from 1980 to 2017

Zhibin Zhou, Jongwook Kwon, Bo Zhang, Junjian Li, Hak cho Kim, Ji Hyun Heo

During the past several decades, national distance (ND) increasingly became a vital cornerstone in international business (IB) research, as both explicit and implicit distance are…

Strong alien or weak acquaintance? The effect of perceived institutional distance and cross-national uncertainty on ownership level in foreign acquisitions

Fatemeh Askarzadeh, Hamed Yousefi, Mahdi Forghani Bajestani

Focusing on the direction of foreign acquisition, this study aims to differentiate the effect of institutional distance on the level of ownership. The authors identify several…

Effect of volatility of development aid on volatility of foreign direct investment inflows

Sena Kimm Gnangnon

This paper aims to examine the effect of development aid volatility on foreign direct investment (FDI) volatility in aid recipient countries.

The internationalisation process of UK SMEs: exporting and non-exporting behaviours based on a four forces behavioural model

Dafnis N. Coudounaris

This study aims to develop a new internationalisation model to describe the exporting and non-exporting behaviours of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and then applying…

The role of internationalization in entrepreneurial orientation-performance link: empirical study of SMEs in a developing nation perspective

Zaynab Dadzie, Ahmed Agyapong, Abdulai Suglo

This study aims to examine the mediating role of internationalization in the relationship between the dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and performance, empirical…

Refining a subsidiary evolution framework: clarifying key concepts

Johan Jakobsson, Katarina Lagerström, Roger Schweizer

While the evolution of subsidiaries has received considerable research attention, the framework for understanding it has not evolved much since the late 1990s. The purpose of this…

Entrepreneurship in Turkey and other Balkan countries: are there opportunities for mutual co-operation through internationalisation?

Erol Tekin, Veland Ramadani, Leo-Paul Dana

The aim of this study is to evaluate the entrepreneurship activity in Turkey and the Balkan countries and to show in which fields they can cooperate in the future.