Purpose – The purpose of this study is to provide a theoretical driven model, explaining the interaction between psychic distance and environment on increased (subsequent) resource commitment decisions made by firms in their internationalization process. Increasingly, contrary to the Uppsala...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the effects of compatible characteristics between parent firms on the extent to which international joint ventures (IJVs) acquire marketing knowledge. Compatible organisational characteristics are a particularly important component for absorptive capacity...

The countries of Eastern and Central Europe have been progressing on the road to a market economy for a number of years now. UK companies, like other western firms, aware of the region's inhabitants pent-up desire for numerous consumer and industrial products and services have invested...

Many developing countries are looking to tourism as an avenue for economic and human development, and foreign direct investment (FDI) is one of the routes through which they can carry out tourism. This study highlights the main findings with respect to the development impacts of foreign direct...