Over the last three decades, strategic alliance performance has been an important research topic within the international business and management fields. Researchers have investigated a number of factors explaining performance but often find diverging results. Scholars have suggested that one...

Past research in the international collaborative strategy area has paid little attention to the matter of alliance staffing, limiting insight into conditions framing the adoption of alternative management staffing approaches. Following a thorough conceptualisation of staffing objectives and...

The article focuses on the value drivers of the unethical marketing behavior of exporters, as seen from the perspective of their importers, and how this in turn affects the quality of their working relationship and performance. Based on a sample of 189 Cypriot importers, the study revealed that...

This paper investigates the way culture influences Japanese inter-firm exchange processes, arguing that isomorphism (e.g., due to macro-force flux and convergence) is eroding traditional Japanese management practices and increasing heterogeneity. The role of culture in the development of...

With the increasing globalization of markets and their interdependencies, small and medium sized domestic firms have witnessed their relative sanctuary from foreign competitors being eroded. This study is founded upon the premise that a significant degree of dormant export potential exists in...

In drawing attention to certain important gaps in the international business literature, the focus of this study is an examination of international supplier selection criteria from the perspective of both importing and exporting firms. Based upon a dual-country research design, an attempt is...