Using a panel data of Chinese firms’ internationalization activities, we assess whether intellectual property (IP) institutions in a host country benefits or impedes innovation of emerging multinational companies (EMNCs). We show thatIPinstitutionsin a host country enable an EMNC to obtain...

This study examines the role of institutional complexity in innovation performance of emerging market multinationals (EMMs). This relationship also depends on top management team (TMT)-related factors, i.e., TMT foreign ties and TMT heterogeneity, and the stage of EMMs’ international...

This study advances the limited generalizability of previous studies that have focused on developed market multinational enterprises and explores the link between institutional distance and ownership choice of emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs). Such studies in the EMNE context...

We propose that home country institutional environment shapes emerging market firms’ foreign expansion. We argue that better-developed home country institutional environment promotes emerging market firms’ expansion to foreign markets more advanced than the home country, while institutional...