This paper develops a framework for analyzing the multinational corporation (MNC) as a multilingual community in which parent functional language and subunit functional languages are concurrently used and recursively linked through an intra-corporate communication network. The unit, breadth and...

Building on social exchange theory, we study the role of justice perceptions in curtailing opportunism and, in turn, improving performance and reducing governance cost in buyer–supplier relationships. Our analysis of 225 dyads in the Chinese home appliance industry indicates that distributive...

Purpose – This study aims to explain the internationalization speed of e‐commerce companies (ECCs). Design/methodology/approach – Based on the archive data of the American ECCs, the study used multiple regression analysis to estimate the influences of a number of micro‐ and...