Purpose – This study aims to understand trust meanings, determinants and manifestations in supply chains (SCs) operating in an emerging market context. It also aims to improve our knowledge about the role of trust and the mechanisms by which it operates in establishing and maintaining...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the role and influence of cultural intermediaries in the developing wine markets of Japan and Singapore by taking a discursive view of relationships amongst these cultural intermediaries, as well as between them and various members of the...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore consumer meaning-making and brand co-creation and the role of brand value and the consumption context of luxury goods in the emerging South African market. Design/methodology/approach An extant segmentation approach that classifies luxury brand...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to differentiate local versus global brand associations in an emerging market (Turkey)’s coffee shop market. Design/methodology/approach Two leading coffee shop brands – one local and one global – were analyzed with an emerging exploratory research...

Purpose This paper aims to explore how visual comprehensibility of a product can affect innovation adoption among the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) consumers in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach This is an exploratory qualitative study based on interviews with eight managerial respondents...

Purpose The main purpose of this study is to investigate perceptions about and contributing activities to business-to-business (B2B) brand value by corporate managers and local stakeholders in the context of emerging markets. Design/methodology/approach The case study examines brand strategies...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine whether the expectations and requirements contained within the corporate governance code have an impact on how accountability is perceived, understood and practiced by company board members in an emerging economy (Mauritius)....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how investors and stockbrokers in Nigeria value shares and whether their approach to share valuation differs from that documented in other countries. In particular, the paper investigates whether the investors and stockbrokers use fundamental,...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the managerial views on the corporate financing practices of firms in the emerging market of Sri Lanka. Design/methodology/approach A survey approach was employed using chief financial officers (CFOs) from the top non-financial firms listed on the...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of thin trading on the day‐of‐the‐week effect in the emerging equity markets of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Researchers have stated that emerging markets are typically characterized by low liquidity, thin trading and...