The rise of Asia as an important region for global business has been widely recognized as one of the most significant economic phenomena in the new millennium. This accessible and comprehensive Handbook brings together state-of-the-art reviews of Asian business in an expansive range of areas...

Arguing that the theorizing potential of case studies has not been fully realized in the field of international business research, Welch, Piekkari, Plakoyiannaki, and Paavilainen-Mäntymäki (2011) construct a typology of theorizing from case studies based on the trade-off between causal...

This study compares the impact of R&D on value added between domestic and foreign firms in Singapore. The analysis is based on a comprehensive panel database from 1993 to 1999 provided by the Singapore Government. Our results found that R&D investments of foreign firms generated higher value...

This study examines the determinants of (1) ownership level in equity joint ventures and (2) foreign market entry mode choice in the context of Vietnam. The first part is a replication of [Pan, Y. (1996). Influences on foreign equity ownership level in joint ventures in China. Journal of...

Agglomeration theory argues that locating close to competitors can be beneficial in terms of gaining from heightened demand -- more frequent consumer visits and subsequent purchases through reducing consumer search costs. This paper examines the trade-off between competition and the...

Strategic orientation is a critical factor for a firm's competitiveness in a transitional economy context but it is understudied in the current literature. This article examines the antecedents of strategic orientation from both the socio-cognitive and resource-based view perspectives. The study...

The prevalent organizational form in most emerging markets is business groups. These groups have typically been viewed through a transaction cost economics perspective where they are perceived as responses to inefficiencies in the market. However, the evidence to date on what generates a...

As an essential part of the grassland ecological system, study on the carbon storage has great significances to the carbon reduction in grassland ecological system. The carbon storage in biomass, carbon storage in soil and soil respiration are summarized in this paper to provide scientific...

This study departs from extant work on diversity and development in several respects. Using DHS data from a large number of developing countries, we adopt four human development outcomes: child mortality, fertility, education, and wealth. We exploit evidence at multiple levels—country,...