We analyze how an aspect of institutional change — regional integration in the form of regional trade agreements (RTAs) — affects the degree of global orientation (DGO) of emerging market (EM) multinational enterprises (MNEs). We decompose regional integration into three key dimensions...

Liability of foreignness (LOF) is a well known concept in international business domain. At the core of LOF is the insight that firms face social and economic costs when they operate in foreign markets. Extant literature acknowledges that the ability of firms to overcome LOF in host locations...

In this study, family firms are studied from a resource-based view (RBV), examining how both technological resources and altruism contribute to family firm performance.The literature on RBV is presented, as are four hypotheses based on the RBV assets of technology, family, strategic planning,...