Purpose – The aim is to gain an increased understanding of the factors motivating managers toward internationalizing their firms. Design/methodology/approach – Attribution theory is employed in this study. Building upon the internationalization literature, an attribution model of...

Purpose – The ultimate purpose of this paper it to encourage international business scholars and managers to pay more attention to global social time when performing research and developing business strategy. Design/methodology/approach – Strategic reference point (SRP) theory is used as a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine and compare the validity of different operationalizations of cultural and institutional distance. Design/methodology/approach – First, a review of the theoretical background for Hofstede's, Schwartz's, Trompenaars's, and Global Leadership and...

Purpose – For international product managers, one critical question is how fast a new product is likely to be adopted and diffused in different nations. One possible way to answer this question is by collecting data on the diffusion in a large number of countries and analyzing them. However,...