...Ronaldo Parente; Keith James Kelley; Yannick Thams; Marcelo J. Alvarado-Vargas Purpose Drawing upon the eclectic paradigm and the regulative dimension of institutional distance theory, it is posited that to understand a firms’ cross-border merger and acquisition (CBMA) location choices...

...Guus Hendriks Purpose This paper aims to use the eclectic paradigm as a broad organizing framework to bring together two somewhat parallel international business (IB) literatures, one on the development effects of multinational enterprise activity and the other on the internationalization...

...Jose Guimon Purpose The aim of this paper is to examine the emergence of multinational universities through the lens of Dunning’s eclectic paradigm. Design/methodology/approach An analytical framework combining the eclectic paradigm with the three missions of universities is proposed...

... Eclectic paradigm Collocation Country‐specific advantages Innovation International business Understanding the reasons why economic activity prefers to locate in certain physical spaces (and not in others) has formed the basis of much enquiry since at least the Enlightenment, and continues to do...

...Alain Verbeke; Wenlong Yuan This paper proposes a new typology of Ownership (O) advantages as a function of their differential managerial implications in established multinational enterprises (MNEs). We argue that the mainstream typology of O advantages proposed in Dunning’s eclectic paradigm does...

... and should not be subsumed within internalization advantages; and that O advantages are necessary for explaining the existence and success of the MNE as an organizational form VOLUME 18 NUMBER 2 Rethinking the O in Dunning s OLI/Eclectic Paradigm Lorraine Eden and Li Dai Abstract: John Dunning introduced...

...Teresa da Silva Lopes According to John Dunning’s eclectic paradigm, firms need to have ownership, location, and internalization advantages in order to cross borders and engage in foreign direct investment. By drawing on historical evidence on the evolution of a group of leading marketing‐based...

...Rajneesh Narula The eclectic paradigm as developed by Dunning evolved in response to the changing IB milieu. I argue that this continual expansion threatens to make the paradigm tautological, without an honest “gatekeeper.” Continual expansion to address new lacunae begins to have decreasing...