While voluminous research has focused on the impact of host country institutions on foreign entrants, the rise of outward internationalization of firms from emerging economies is challenging this research stream. Limited work has been done to investigate a crucial question: How do home country...

Unlike multinational enterprises from developed economies (DE MNEs), MNEs from emerging economies (EE MNEs) commonly do not have absolute ownership advantage in management, technology, and know-how. Yet some of them have recently undertaken aggressive cross-border mergers and acquisitions...