According to the springboard perspective, emerging market multinationals (EMNE) seek strategic assets aggressively from the outset. In this paper, we investigate the role of firms' institutional embeddedness in terms of age and affiliation to business group on their aggressive...

The international business literature has long recognized the explanatory primacy of the upper echelon of a firm. This has resulted in an impressive volume of research examining the impact of demographic, psychographic, and experiential background of the managers on the actions and strategies of...