Operations management scholarship has focused on reference-group adoption positively influencing focal-facility adoption; i.e., positive imitation parameters manifest due to the presence of mimicry and contagion. We instead argue that the incentive to adopt a quality-management system can be...

The globalization literature questions national autonomy in a world where MNEs spur increased international flows of capital and trade. This paper empirically tests whether globalization undermines the autonomy of domestic airline competition policy. A comprehensive panel data set, covering...

...Using an International Business perspective to complement an IOanalysis, I argue that factoring international competitive incentives helps explain domestic airline merger activity.