The 1990s brought surprising industrial development in emerging economies around the globe: firms in countries not previously known for their high-technology industries moved to the forefront in new Information Technologies (IT) by using different business models and carving out unique positions...

Resource Dependency Theory (RDT) and Global Value Chain (GVC) theory have been deployed in the strategic and international management literatures to address questions of power in dyadic relationships and global production networks, respectively. This paper integrates the two theoretical...

Organizational shared schemata, the common understanding of the overall task of an organization and agreement about business practices, are the core component of organizational routines and source of internal cohesion. The emergence of shared schemata and organizational routines in...

Learning is a key component of firm upgrades in emerging economies, and China is noexception. Studies have identified two critical mechanisms that facilitate learning: 1)connections with supportive local governments that enhance access to resources or publiclyfunded knowledge and 2) connections...

Cross-border entrepreneurship is a mechanism by which global cities may increase their stock of human capital and capabilities at the expense of the sending home region. Unlike the immigrant and returnee entrepreneurship studied in the past, cross-border entrepreneurship tends to be one-way,...