Culture has been a widely researched topic in the International Business (IB) literature over the last decades. To better understand what culture actually means and its implication in firms? IB operations, several cultural models and taxonomies have been put forward. In this paper we seek to...

As motivações para a internacionalização das empresas devem influenciar a selecção dos modos de entrada nos mercados externos. Neste artigo usamos a classificação de John Dunning (1993) que distingue quatro motivos - procura de mercado, de recursos, de eficiência e de recursos...

Neste artigo avaliamos quais e como as características culturais nacionais que influenciam as percepções de liderança ética. Metodologicamente, realizamos um estudo empírico relacionando as nove dimensões culturais do projeto GLOBE – Distância ao poder, Aversão à incerteza,...

Culture and the influence of national cultures and cultural differences have been widely studied in International Business (IB) research especially over the past three decades. To better understand what culture actually means and its implications on firms’ international operations, several...

Objetivo. Este artigo proporciona uma revisão da contribuição de John Dunning na pesquisa em negócios internacionais, para entender o impacto da obra de Dunning e do paradigma Eclético na disciplina. Revisão da literatura. O contributo de Dunning e do paradigma Eclético – usualmente...

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are important modes through which firms carry out their domestic and international strategies. This bibliometric review examines the extant published research on M&As in top sixteen leading business journals notable for publishing strategic management and...

Well known and reputable corporations, not only the small entrepreneurial firms, also face organizational decline and failure. Albeit organizational decline is a reality, there is a notable scarcity of research on the topic. Organizational decline is more often studied in small companies and...

Uma parte importante da investigação existente sobre empresas multinacionais procura explicar porque e como a transferência de conhecimento, ou de tecnologia, ocorre dentro das multinacionais. A maioria desta investigação trata as transferências num contexto que pressupõe a cooperação...

This article focuses on the organizational decline and, more specifically, the evolution of a selected group of Brazilian companies that were included in the Largest and Best ranking of Exame magazine in the period between 1974 and 2006. Our descriptive analysis shows two main effects: firstly a...