Acknowledgments

Prior to publishing this volume, the editors hosted a two-day conference (September 27–28, 2014) on the topic of Emerging Markets and Multinational Enterprises at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. The conference was co-sponsored by the Center for Emerging Markets at Northeastern University, the Center for International Business Studies at Texas A&M University, and Emerald Group Publishing.

The conference gave the opportunity to the authors to present, refine, and integrate their ideas. The editors would like to thank all the conference participants – authors, discussants, guest speakers, and attendants – for their valuable time and contributions, which greatly enhanced the quality of the volume. We extend our special thanks to Dean Hugh Courtney, Dean of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business for hosting the conference; Ravi Ramamurti, Sheila Puffer, and Dan McCarthy for their time and stimulating contributions as guest speakers; and Joseph A. Clougherty, Denise Dunlap, Wenxin Guo, Kiattichai Kalasin, Grigorios Livanis, Tatiana S. Manolova, Valentina Marano, and Jay Mulki, for their invigorating feedback as discussants of the presented papers.