Motivated by globalization, the internationalization of Brazilian franchise chains to emerging countries has grown in recent decades. This internationalization provided opportunities for expansion for companies in this segment through business in foreign markets. The objective of this article is...

This paper aims to understand how born global firms develop their international pricing strategies, practices, and models. It aims to expand the study of international entrepreneurship and born global firms by including a broader and deeper range of pricing aspects than is normally found in the...

Outsourcing is now increasingly used as a competitive weapon in the global economy of the 21st century. We know from the past that globalization, is nothing new. It continues to affect people and businesses in every country of the world, spurred on by the trend in global outsourcing, in which...

The factors that determine firms' levels of internationalization remain a focal area of international business research. Within this research stream, studies building on the upper echelons theory have investigated the influence of the demographic characteristics of the top management team (TMT)...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the number of minority international joint ventures (MIJVs) formed and the level of internationalization attained in the context of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We argue that this is an inverted U-shaped...

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed many of the weaknesses in our current systems of government and commerce. In this essay I provide some historical context to the recent era of ‘hyper-globalization’. I then present multiple factors---economic, social, political, technological and...

This teaching case documents the start-up and strategy of Flat World Knowledge, a firm entering the textbook publishing industry with a disruptive strategy. The case can be used in classes related to entrepreneurship, new venture creation, venture capital, industry disruption, blue ocean...

World cities are boosted by Nation-States to encourage and control the innovation processes, developing specific attractiveness factors for companies focused on knowledge production. The role of world cities as a knowledge hub is linked to the one of knowledge production-city, since in global...

Network organisations emphasise the importance of corporate and product intangible assets. In global competition, the managerial economics of intangibles imposes new network policies of corporate social responsibility, dominated by global social issues such as economic sustainability,...

Global markets are revolutionising the basic concepts of research, manufacturing and marketing, and developing corporate networks based on competitive alliances. In global managerial economics, knowledge management thus becomes the crucial competitive factor, creating knowledge production hubs,...