Institutional theory explains how interactions between organizations and institutions shape economic activity and consequently managerial performance and strategies. The institutional setting of most emerging countries is in transition, whereby a relationship-based transaction mode is gradually...

Interorganizational relationships (IOR) arise under many different structures and can take the form of alliances, networks, partnerships and joint ventures, amongst others. This study looks at such relationships using a static approach that reverts to the starting point of interorganizational...

This article looks at the reasons for the rapid rise of emerging country multinationals (EMNCs) in the global competitive landscape, despite their ‘late mover' status. We identify two predominant factors in the rise of these companies: the influence of the institutional environment on the...

There is a worldwide tendency for the elaboration of public policy to depend more and more on the setting-up of policy networks among public and private actors, who take part in the decision-making process by means of a non-hierarchical governance. In Brazil there is a policy network which is...