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View article: Foreign market involvement, entry-mode learning potential and SME internationalization outcomes
Foreign market involvement, entry-mode learning potential and SME internationalization outcomes Open
Purpose Drawing on an organizational learning perspective, this paper examines the effect of levels of foreign market involvement (intensity and geographic spread) on internationalization outcomes recognizing that the moderating influence …
View article: Problematizing Strategic Alliance Research: Challenges, Issues and Paradoxes in the New Era
Problematizing Strategic Alliance Research: Challenges, Issues and Paradoxes in the New Era Open
Strategic alliances have attracted substantial attention from industry and academia over the past three decades. However, due to rapid technological evolution, saturated marketplaces, globalisation of businesses on the one hand and de‐glob…
View article: External resource provision and the international performance of SMEs – A contextual analysis
External resource provision and the international performance of SMEs – A contextual analysis Open
This paper investigates whether different categories of links (core and discretionary) to external resource providers are associated with the international performance of SMEs, as well as the perceived importance of external links for prov…
View article: Grand Challenges within IB: Conducting Qualitative Research in the Covid Environment
Grand Challenges within IB: Conducting Qualitative Research in the Covid Environment Open
The new circumstances imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic create considerable uncertainty about the future nature of International Business (IB). This presents IB scholars with a ‘grand challenge’ of conducting research to inform theorizing a…
View article: Competitive and Cooperative Strategy
Competitive and Cooperative Strategy Open
This lead chapter defines competitive, cooperative, and coopetitive strategies, and provides an overview that complements the two following chapters which focus on gaining competitive advantage and creating value through alliances. This le…
View article: Strategic Alliance Research in the Era of Digital Transformation: Perspectives on Future Research
Strategic Alliance Research in the Era of Digital Transformation: Perspectives on Future Research Open
The emerging digital transformation in the twenty‐first century is rapidly and significantly changing the business landscape. The fast‐changing activities, expectations and new modes of collaboration suggest it is time to review the curren…
View article: Contextualizing Internationalization Decision‐making Research in SMEs: Towards an Integration of Existing Studies
Contextualizing Internationalization Decision‐making Research in SMEs: Towards an Integration of Existing Studies Open
This paper advances research on SME internationalization decision‐making through considering the relevance of its context. It systematically reviews empirical studies, together with conceptual papers and other reviews in related discipline…
View article: Should Your IB Research Deal with Power?
Should Your IB Research Deal with Power? Open
This article is part of the AIB Insights interactive lead article series. The question raised in this article is: Should your IB research deal with power? Although much work has been published on the political relations between MNEs and ex…
View article: MNE microfoundations and routines for building a legitimate and sustainable position in emerging markets
MNE microfoundations and routines for building a legitimate and sustainable position in emerging markets Open
Summary A number of studies have analysed how multinational enterprises (MNEs) develop appropriate strategies for managing the institutionally different contexts of various markets. However, we still know rather little about how MNEs manag…