| Shi, Boadu and Du | Post-entry growth in scope and scale among Chinese multinational enterprises: a structural embeddedness explanation | (1) Chinese multinational enterprises' (CMNEs) structural embeddedness is positively related to their scope of post-entry growth, while has a U-shaped relationship with their scale of post-entry growth; (2) CMNEs' scope of post-entry growth mediates the relationship between structural embeddedness and the scale of post-entry growth, the mediation effect counts for 33.5% of the over effect and (3) the indirect effect of structural embeddedness on the scope of post-entry growth through the scale of post-entry growth in nonlinear. As the structural embeddedness strengthens, the positive indirect effect gradually weakens |
| Peng, Fang and Lockett | From focus to ambidexterity: the choice of catch-up strategy for EMNEs | The choice of catch-up strategy is influenced by the nature of windows of opportunity and the firm's accumulated technological capability. Specifically, the EMNEs studied underwent a transition from a focused strategy in the catch-up stage to an ambidextrous strategy in the beyond catch-up stage |
| Zhou and Yin | The too much of a good thing effect of new ventures' opportunity development on innovation strategy under the Chinese context | (1) new ventures' opportunity creation positively impacts innovation strategy, while opportunity discovery has a curvilinear (inverted U-shape) impact on innovation strategy and (2) the relationship between opportunity development and innovation strategy is moderated by political ties and business ties |
| Sullivan and Jannesari | How relationship quality, autonomous work motivation and socialization experience influence the adjustment of self-initiated expatriates in China | Relationship quality with host country nationals (HCNs) was positively associated with adjustment, and autonomous work motivation fully mediated this relationship. Socialization experience moderated the association between relationship quality and autonomous work motivation. Specifically, SIEs' socialization experience strengthened the associations of trust and shared vision with autonomous work motivation. However, socialization experiences failed to moderate the mediate effects of trust and shared vision on adjustment via autonomous work motivation |
| Jiang, Zhang, Li, Frost, Rong and Cheng | The impact of organizational position level and cultural flow direction on the relationship between cultural intelligence and expatriate cross-border adaptation | Both organizational position level and cultural flow moderate the relationship between cultural intelligence and expatriate adaptation, whereby the relationship is contingent on the interaction of organizational position status and assignment directions between high power distance and low power distance host environments |