Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of individual traits and attributes on the entrepreneurial and internationalization actions of Australian businesswomen, many of whom run small businesses. Design/methodology/approach: This study is exploratory and quantitative,...

Purpose – The paper aims to motivate more rigorous theoretical and empirical specification of the home regionalization phenomenon, in particular the dynamics of shifting advantage over time within a multinational enterprise. It aims to improve dialogue among regionalization researchers....

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 – Drawing on international business (IB) theory, the authors model MNEs adjusting their home-regional and global...

Preface / Joseph L.C. Cheng, Elizabeth Maitland, Stephen Nicholas -- In search of the matrix advantage: a reexamination of the fit of matrix structures to transnational strategy / Lex Donaldson -- The dynamics of attention markets in multinational enterprises / Cyril Bouquet, Julian Birkinshaw...

This paper provides a methodology for identifying the dynamics of international firm expansion, demonstrating systematic evidence of both ‘toe in the water’ and concentrated bursts of internationalization by US multinational enterprises. We use the methodology of statistical process control...