.... Originality/value Theoretically, these findings shed light on a nuanced relationship between a firm’s search for knowledge assets and access to foreign markets within resource constrained emerging market contexts. The limitations in the use and applicability of the KBV for EMFs’ internationalization success...

...Sushma Kumari; Vikrant Shirodkar; Steven McGuire Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review literature on home-country institutional factors influencing the internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from emerging markets. Based on the analysis, the authors propose...

...Fahim Anwar; Bella B. Nujen; Hans Solli-Sæther Purpose This paper aims to provide a focused review of international business (IB) literature on research and development (R&D) internationalization, assessing the progress and proposing future research directions. Design/methodology/approach...

.... This study aims to provide empirical evidence that the adoption of multi-stakeholder initiatives, which are globally recognized as signals of CSR, helps MNEs increase profits from internationalization. Design/methodology/approach Fixed effect models, which address model misspecification problems...

...Barbara Maggi; Claudia Pongelli; Salvatore Sciascia Purpose Although research on family firms (FF) internationalization has seen a boom over the past 30 years, the understanding of how FFs internationalize with equity modes is still fragmented. Indeed, the majority of extant literature...

...-Fuentes et al., 2019 ; Oviatt and McDougall, 2005 ; Terjesen et al., 2016 ; Zahra and George, 2017). Within international entrepreneurship, the early internationalization of companies is one of the most studied aspects (Braunerhjelm and Halldin, 2019 ; Falahat et al., 2018...

...Diego Finchelstein; Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez; Erica Helena Salvaj Purpose In this exploratory multiple case study, we aim to compare the internationalization of two state-owned enterprises (SOEs) owned by subnational governments with three owned by central governments in Latin America...

...Arpita Agnihotri; Saurabh Bhattacharya Purpose This paper aims to explore the association between chairperson hubris and the internationalization of firms belonging to business groups in an emerging market, India, under the boundary conditions of business group internationalization and the tenure...

... countries for international expansion based on the institutional characteristics of the markets and their compatibility with the objectives of the franchise chains. Originality/value Companies in emerging countries internationalize according to different management logics from those of companies from...

...Andrei Panibratov; Daria Klishevich Purpose This study aims to examine, which dynamic capabilities (DC) are used by companies from post-socialist emerging markets (PSEM) during their internationalization. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses a DC perspective together with the new...

...Heejin Woo Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine how foreign venture capital firms affect the internationalization of investee ventures and their performance. The author argues that, as influential stakeholders, foreign venture capital (VC) firms engage in strategic decisions of investee...

... some of its foreign market entries and for having successfully absorbed foreign-acquired capabilities. Findings The study provides counterfactual evidence to the springboard perspective, considering timing and speed of the internationalization and catch-up processes and the size of acquisitions...

...Angelo Cavallo; Antonio Ghezzi; Bertha Viviana Ruales Guzmán Purpose This paper aims to investigate how a firm may innovate its business model to internationalize. Design/methodology/approach Owing to its novelty and to the depth of the investigation required to grasp the mechanisms and logics...

...). While AM-ECCs have been expanding overseas with considerable success, EM-ECCs have been less disposed to internationalize and have been content to serve and defend their home turfs against foreign rivals who wield monopolistic advantages. Leveraging the network, ownership, location and internalization...

... and advanced national systems of innovation. The second assumption concerns the distribution of corporate innovation between home and abroad. It is believed that globalization drives MNEs to internationalize their R&D activities. The degree of internationalization of corporate innovation is measured...

...David B. Audretsch; Erik E. Lehmann; Julian Schenkenhofer Purpose In contrast to the predictions from the family business and the small- and medium-sized enterprise internationalization literatures, Hidden Champions are world-market leaders exhibiting a high share of exports. The purpose...

... effect on internationalization using a sample of 11,677 firms from 99 developing countries in a multilevel model, with both frequentist and Bayesian approaches. Findings The findings of this paper indicate consistent support for the notion of region of origin effect. The relative importance of direct...

...Fangrong Li; Daniel Ding Purpose This study aims to examine the dual effects of home country institutional forces (i.e. institutional support and institutional constraints) on the internationalization of private firms in emerging markets. By doing so, this study aims to examine the applicability...

... Europe Internationalization Partisan politics Transitional economies For the past 30 years, the world economy has gone through a period of intense change driven by globalization and foreign direct investment (FDI). The transformative impact of two central trends of globalization...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Internationalization Small- and medium-sized enterprises Export driver Export stimuli European Commission ENTR/2009/033 Therefore this article aims to contribute to this growing academic debate on SMEs...