This study compares the impact of R&D on value added between domestic and foreign firms in Singapore. The analysis is based on a comprehensive panel database from 1993 to 1999 provided by the Singapore Government. Our results found that R&D investments of foreign firms generated higher value...

This study examines the determinants of (1) ownership level in equity joint ventures and (2) foreign market entry mode choice in the context of Vietnam. The first part is a replication of [Pan, Y. (1996). Influences on foreign equity ownership level in joint ventures in China. Journal of...

Agglomeration theory argues that locating close to competitors can be beneficial in terms of gaining from heightened demand -- more frequent consumer visits and subsequent purchases through reducing consumer search costs. This paper examines the trade-off between competition and the...

The rise of Asia as an important region for global business has been widely recognized as one of the most significant economic phenomena in the new millennium. This accessible and comprehensive Handbook brings together state-of-the-art reviews of Asian business in an expansive range of areas...

Arguing that the theorizing potential of case studies has not been fully realized in the field of international business research, Welch, Piekkari, Plakoyiannaki, and Paavilainen-Mäntymäki (2011) construct a typology of theorizing from case studies based on the trade-off between causal...

Sino‐foreign joint ventures have been the major form of foreign direct investment in China since the economic reform in late 1978. Among the many problems faced by the foreign partner of a joint venture, human resource management (HRM) is one of the most often cited. Offers a comprehensive...

Many Sino‐foreign joint ventures are set up by acquiring existing state enterprises. Under this arrangement, the foreign partner normally has to restructure the original state enterprise by transferring its routines to China. More often than not, resistance to change is experienced during the...

Purpose The first purpose of this short essay is to respond to Howells and Scholderer’s (2016) harsh critique that organizational unlearning is a superfluous concept. The second purpose is to establish a relationship between organizational unlearning and the learning organization....

Purpose This paper aims to provide some comments on the four papers, other than the author’s own, that were included in a recent special issue on organizational unlearning. Design/methodology/approach The author carefully reads these papers and identify problems that may hinder unlearning...