This article explores whether the internationalization trajectories-patterns over time in the level, pace, variability, and temporal concentration of international expansion-of large firms from China and India are fundamentally different from those of developed country firms. A longitudinal...

Based on an original and recent sample representative of the largest R&D corporations in the EU, this paper aims at investigating in a quantitative way the main factors explaining: (i) the decision of firms to increase their R&D investment effort in the near future; (ii) the main drivers...

Since Vernon's seminal work (Vernon 1966; Vernon 1971), international firm expansion has been predominantly portrayed as a phenomenon led by firms located in economically and technologically developed countries in search for new markets, natural resources, knowledge leverage, and/or risk...