This volume concentrates on the substantive gaps in the IB/IM field and addresses whether these gaps are resolvable with our current theoretical and methodological toolkit. This entails three specific queries about the past and present: Have our theories advanced some combination of explanation...

Volume 28 of the Advances in international management focuses on the opportunities and challenges for multinational enterprises that consider emerging economies as their destinations or their homes. Chapters in this volume examine the rise of home-grown multinational enterprises in emerging...

Institutional theory has been used increasingly by international business and management researchers to explain the behavior and strategies of multinational enterprises. If early international business research was dominated by the application of transaction cost and neoclassical economics,...

Volume 28 of the Advances in International Management focuses on the opportunities and challenges for multinational enterprises that consider emerging economies their destinations. It provides a forum for thought-provoking idea and empirical research, and is ideal for researchers and doctoral...

This volume explores major issues and concepts in the field of international business and management and asks the question 'What is it that we know?' It examines key topics such as multinational enterprise and strategic management theory, post-merger integration, internalizing firms and the...