...Rakesh B. Sambharya; Farok J. Contractor; Abdul A. Rasheed Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify some of the major issues relating to the conceptualization and operationalization of industry globalization. Findings Globalized industries have four important characteristics: cross...

...Jan-Erik Vahlne; Inge Ivarsson; Claes G. Alvstam Purpose This paper aims to contribute to the debate concerning the asserted end of the globalization process. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a description of the evolution of all Swedish MNEs, the 50 largest companies and the ten...

...Klaus E. Meyer Purpose The apparent onset of an era of anti-globalization creates significant challenges for international business (IB) practice, research and education. This paper aims to discuss the implication of these challenges for IB scholarship. Design/methodology/approach This essay...

...Dr. Chang Hoon Oh, Dr. Jing Li; Christian Geisler Asmussen; Bo Bernhard Nielsen; Tom Osegowitsch; Andre Sammartino Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to model and test the dynamics of home-regional and global penetration by multi-national enterprises (MNEs). Design/methodology/approach...

...Chang Hoon Oh; Alan M. Rugman† Purpose – This paper aims to analyze regional versus global activities of large firms. We assemble longitudinal data over the 1999-2008 period. Design/methodology/approach – Sales and assets data for the Fortune 500 firms from 1999-2008 were compiled from...

... and Karunaratna rather than the Kogut and Singh index. In light of the prominence of these two influential and widely-cited articles, this commentary challenges the notion of calculating psychic distance. Psychic distance Cultural distance Methodology Index Globalization International business ©...

.... These explorations open up new empirical and theoretical research avenues for distinguishing any genuine region effects. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Regionalization Home regionalization Regional strategy Home‐regional strategy Globalization Global strategy Semi‐globalization Regional...

... carefully delineates between a set of potential mechanisms influencing individual attitudes to globalization in the context of individuals' attitudes toward the impact of MNEs on local businesses. Findings The article demonstrates that there is remarkable heterogeneity and complexity in individual...

...Johny K. Johansson; Laurence Leigh Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an empirical assessment of the degree to which global firms have penetrated markets in emerging countries in the new millennium. The focus is on the “big four” emerging countries of Brazil, Russia, India, and China...

...Syed H. Akhter; Colleen Beno Purpose Is it regionalization or globalization that more accurately depicts the state of the global economy? Exports and foreign direct investments (FDI) data are analyzed with the aim of answering the question and determining how intra‐ and inter‐regional integration...

..., in three key regions – the EU, NAFTA and ASEAN+3 – which together represent 78 percent of global trade. Findings The results indicate that levels of regional integration in trade and changes in that integration vary by region and by direction of flow. Notably, the EU has higher levels of intra‐regional...

...Luis A. Perez‐Batres; Michael J. Pisani; Jonathan P. Doh This paper contributes to the international business lit‐erature by exploring the degree of globalization in our international business journals. Through an investigation of all multi‐authored articles in core international business journals...

... strong institutions and regulations. Adam Smith would have been particularly concerned with the fact that the large multinationals are as much political actors as they are economic actors. He would have argued that there may be ‘moral‘ limits to globalization. In his view, the general rules of morality...

...Jifu Wang; Jinghua Zhao; Yixi Ning; Peng Yu The impact of globalization and worldwide competition has become excruciatingly noticeable in China. The purpose of this study is to examine China’s transformation of state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) to competitive, capable organizations by identifying...

... through product and market expansion and finally to globalization. We conclude that their parallel but finally divergent evolutionary patterns are strongly influenced by the cultural dimensions of their countries and, to a lesser degree, by other environmental and structural factors. The insights provided...

... Publishing Limited 2007 Globalization Social responsibility Transnational corporations Environment Sustainable development VOLUME 15 NUMBER 1 SPECIAL ISSUE Globalization of Sustainable Development: Principles and Practices in Transnational Corporations Dennis A. Rondinelli, Duke...

...Talha Harcar; John E. Spillan; Orsay Kucukemiroglu In the globalization age, with worldwide increases in dual income households, decision‐making has become more difficult and even more important than in the past. In this article, a five‐countries cross ‐ cultural comparisons of husband and wife...

...D. Douglas Miller The economic phenomenon of “globalization” has broadly affected the health care industry and the medical profession in the late 20th century. Governmental and private sector managed care reach is expanding globally, as patients are “ecuritized” and traded as covered lives...