The global business environment is increasingly characterized by dynamic interactions among an ever-widening group of actors – public, for-profit and not-for-profit – involved in the provision of such local collective goods as health, education, transportation and communication in emerging...

The market-internalization framework can be applied to non-economic institutions because society's nonmarket subsystems – political, social and cultural – are subject to failures just like economic markets, and firms can contribute to their repair or replacement by selectively, strategically...

Seventy years after its postwar inception, the field of international business-government relations (IBGR) is rich in new concepts, typologies, theories and methodologies that have broadly reflected the three post-WWII periods of Confrontation, Accommodation and Competition. This analysis...

The growing use and abuse of sex in French advertising prompted strong reactions from consumer and feminist associations, and resulted in extensive and strict public and private controls. Recently, the French self-regulatory system has developed a system involving various stakeholder...

From its very origins and key originators (Coase, Hymer and Dunning), most IB research has been more “universal” than “international” in nature because either dependent and independent variables – or both – have not focused on phenomena that truly cross borders even when several...

We use and extend resource-dependence theory by analyzing how loosely-coupled organizational structures facilitate the management of political ties by business groups in emerging economies. This topic is particularly salient because business groups are a prevalent organizational form in these...