Purpose – The purpose of this article is to propose a framework for analyzing the comparative economic market size for service franchisors in emerging markets using current and available data from the World Bank. Design/methodology/approach – Data is transformed through simple manipulations...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the status of corporate social responsibility (CSR) communications in Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC) nations. The four countries are among the biggest emerging markets, forecasted to have increasing influence in economic and political...

Purpose – The paper aims to examine the consumption behavior of Chinese residents during economic transition. It explores whether Western theories of consumption are applicable to the Chinese situation, and then tests the hypothesis based on Chinese traditional culture and dynamic nature of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on GDP growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with particular emphasis on Chinese FDI. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the growth accounting model, a dynamic GMM estimation is used. To compare...

Constituting over two-thirds of the world's population and one-fifth of its GDP, the emerging markets are expected to continue to impact the world's new economic order, ushering in changes in economic thought, management philosophy, global operations, and financial flows. Given their importance...

The International Journal of Emerging Markets already picked up the topic of ""China Goes Global"" in an e-book in 2014 (IJoEM vol 9, iss. 2, 2014). That e-book was the outcome of the best papers of the 6th and 7th China Goes Global conferences. The 2014 e-book dealt with institutional...