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View article: Beyond reductionism: rethinking MNEs’ role in environmental crises
Beyond reductionism: rethinking MNEs’ role in environmental crises Open
This counterpoint challenges the view advanced by Yu, Bansal, and Arjaliès (J Int Business Stud 54:1151–1169, 2023), who argue that multinational enterprises (MNEs), by virtue of their cross-border operations, are inherently detrimental to…
View article: Success and failure in family firm internationalization: The case of Rothschild
Success and failure in family firm internationalization: The case of Rothschild Open
In this study, we examine over 100 years of Rothschild’s international activity: we analyze this multinational enterprise’s (MNE’s) cross-border transfer of family-derived firm-specific advantages (FSAs) and the challenges of recombination…
View article: Global Value Chain Resilience: Understanding the Impact of Managerial Governance Adaptations
Global Value Chain Resilience: Understanding the Impact of Managerial Governance Adaptations Open
While COVID-19 has caused significant short-term disruptions in global value chains (GVCs), in the longer run, the pandemic will not be the primary catalyst in GVC evolution. As GVCs recover from the initial shock, managers will make GVC r…
View article: Family firm internationalization: Past research and an agenda for the future
Family firm internationalization: Past research and an agenda for the future Open
Although the study of family firm internationalization has generated considerable scholarly attention, existing research has offered varied and at times incompatible findings on how family ownership and management shape internationalizatio…
View article: Family firm internationalization: Past research and an agenda for the future
Family firm internationalization: Past research and an agenda for the future Open
Although the study of family firm internationalization has generated considerable scholarly attention, existing research has offered varied and at times incompatible findings on how family ownership and management shape internationalizatio…
View article: Global Value Chains in the Post‐COVID World: Governance for Reliability
Global Value Chains in the Post‐COVID World: Governance for Reliability Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has delivered a profound shock to global value chains (GVCs). To date, popular and academic press has predicted significant changes in GVC configurations due to COVID-19 (FT, 2020; Panwar, 2020). It has been argued th…
View article: Global value chains: A review of the multi-disciplinary literature
Global value chains: A review of the multi-disciplinary literature Open
This article reviews the rapidly growing domain of global value chain (GVC) research by analyzing several highly cited conceptual frameworks and then appraising GVC studies published in such disciplines as international business, general m…
View article: A values-based analysis of bifurcation bias and its impact on family firm internationalization
A values-based analysis of bifurcation bias and its impact on family firm internationalization Open
Recent analysis of family firm internationalization has shown that international performance can suffer when family owners or managers engage in an unwarranted, strict separation between two ‘generic categories’ of resources in their strat…
View article: Corporate Diplomacy and Family Firm Longevity
Corporate Diplomacy and Family Firm Longevity Open
We discuss family firm longevity building upon a new conceptual lens, informed by transaction cost economics (TCE), but augmented with corporate diplomacy thinking. Family firms, because of their superior foundation of bonding social capit…
View article: The New Internalization Theory and Multinational Enterprises from Emerging Economies: A Business History Perspective
The New Internalization Theory and Multinational Enterprises from Emerging Economies: A Business History Perspective Open
The recent surge of emerging-economy multinational enterprises (EMNEs) has prompted a debate on whether existing international business theory—particularly internalization theory—can accommodate this phenomenon. Our view is that no new, EM…