This study examines whether a host country's industry-specific technology advantage increases the propensity of emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs) to invest in the host country. The study further explores whether inward FDI in EMNEs' home markets, by generating knowledge...

Research shows that firms tend to expand into foreign locations with sizeable co-ethnic communities. Yet many cases exist in which the ethnic community influences the investment choice of the same firm in one location but not in another. We offer an institutional lens to explain this...

We investigate the following important questions in international business: How do MNEs choose ownership strategies when facing strong uncertainty in foreign market entries? How are the choices affected by industry contingencies? Following the key tenets of real options theory, we propose that,...

Research suggests that multinational enterprises (MNEs) are attracted to locations with concentrated firms from the same home country to benefit from interactions with market forces, but it remains an open question whether such agglomeration facilitates MNEs’ interactions with nonmarket actors...