Purpose – This comment aims to join the discussion raised by Peng et al. regarding the social responsibility of international business (IB) scholars in the case of Chinese outward foreign direct investment (OFDI), and to provide a subject overview about it. Design/methodology/approach – In...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain in detail the strategic asset‐seeking OFDIs of Chinese firms in Denmark through a theoretical lens that combines the updated OLI (Ownership, Location, Internalization) paradigm and the internalization theory. Meanwhile, the authors hope to...

Purpose The study conceptualizes how firms’ strategic motives interact with the heterogeneity of host country institutional environments in determining the subsidiary ownership. The author hypothesizes and tests two interaction effects. The study found that firms with market-seeking motives...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide a synthetic review of the empirical literature on the multinational enterprise (MNE), subsidiaries and performance. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines the following: the theoretical and conceptual foundation of multinationality (M) and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical discussion of the scope and correct scale metrics used in the measurement of multinationality. Design/methodology/approach – There are two ways of measuring the degree of multinationality (sometimes called the international...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain the different international environmental strategies that multinational enterprises (MNEs) can adopt. Design/methodology/approach – This study updates the traditional country‐specific advantages/firm‐specific advantages (FSA/CSA)...

Purpose – This paper aims to propose a way of addressing unresolved issues in international business theory. Design/methodology/approach – A new model of the multinational enterprise as a coordinator of supply chains is presented. Findings – This paper identifies a new market‐seeking...

Purpose – This paper seeks to demonstrate that internalization theory, as a “complete” theory of the firm, is particularly well equipped to analyze multinational enterprise (MNE) regional strategies, thanks to its joint transaction cost economics and resource‐based foundations....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to summarize theoretical insights about key antecedents of multinational enterprise (MNE) performance and to review and synthesize empirically researched antecedents of MNE performance. Design/methodology/approach – Dominant strategic management...

Purpose – The purpose of the study is to assess whether outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) and home country capital investment are substitutes or complements. Design/methodology/approach – Case studies of 22 Canadian multinational companies (MNCs) were carried out, and the qualitative...