Based on survey questionnaire data of 494 German expatriate managers on assignment to 59 countries, this study explored the nature of the expatriate career concept, the perceived impact of an international assignment on career advancement and personal development, and the effectiveness of...

Based on a study of 409 expatriates on assignment to 51 countries around the world, this study examines: (1) Expatriates' perceptions of the importance of international assignments to their overall career development; (2) the modes of acculturation in interacting with host country nationals; (3)...

This article elucidates an increasingly prevalent facet of global competition: simultaneous competition and cooperation between global rivals (i.e., coopetition). In order to develop an overall framework to analyze coopetition, this article explains why coopetition occurs, discusses situations...

This study examines the organizational and personal level conditions under which boundary spanners in an international joint venture (IJV) tend to disagree with each other regarding procedural justice. Nested within the logic of boundary spanning and building on the integrated justice theory and...

Large scale outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) by emerging market enterprises has become common in today's business world. Nested within the political economy perspective, this article elucidates why and how emerging market governments enthusiastically stimulate OFDI. Drawing upon our...

This article articulates a dynamic capability perspective on international business. The three essential ingredients of dynamic capability--capability possession (distinctive resources), capability deployment (resource allocation), and capability upgrading (dynamic learning)--have become...

This article presents a conceptual and typological framework that delineates coopetition within a globally coordinated multinational enterprise--simultaneous cooperation and competition between geographically dispersed subunits. With heightened interdependence in resource or knowledge sharing,...

In this study we examine how a firm's engagement in graft in emerging economies is shaped by its organizational attributes. Building on the logic of organizational ecology, we envisage that a firm's engagement in graft is influenced by its (1) institutional structure (e.g., public ownership,...

Multinational corporations (MNCs) entering and operating in China have been significantly changing their dominant strategies over the past two decades to cope with China's shifting competitive and regulatory environments. The new strategies have resulted in a status shift such that MNCs are no...