Managing voluntary cooperative relationships is growing in strategic importance. While some scholars emphasize the importance of fostering interpersonal ties and establishing a long-term perspective, others focus on managing the pattern of payoff to enhance a relationship. We offer a contingency...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate the type of resources that firms draw on to expand internationally within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) context. The authors seek to understand the impact of technological, political and knowledge resources on ASEAN...

This paper examines the country and industry effects on the cross-sectional variance of firms’ equity return in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries. Using the model developed by Heston and Rouwenhorst (1994), this article covers five ASEAN countries and ten...

This paper examines the country and industry effects on the cross-sectional variance of firms’ equity return in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries. Using the model developed by Heston and Rouwenhorst (1994), this article covers five ASEAN countries and ten...

We argue that multinational enterprises (MNEs) not only strive to minimize transaction costs but also attempt to maximize transaction values when interacting with local firms in foreign markets. We put forth our thesis regarding MNE governance structure, that it is contingent on the...

The prevalence of Internet-based sales by exporters vs. non-exporters is highlighted in a recent World Bank Report (Ferro, 2011) suggesting the use of sophisticated processes when selling overseas. We investigate the count of new process/ product innovations for a group of newly exporting...

This paper studies the determinants of the export activity of family SMEs, disentangling the three main dimensions that comprise the concept of familiness: power, experience, and culture. The results, using the F-PEC scale over a sample of 500 Spanish SMEs, show that this approach identifies the...

Finding the internationalization triggers of family-managed firms is not easy because family-managed firms are regarded as being very different to begin with (e.g. Bloom et al., 2011).In investigating the role of family management, we apply a Spanish sample of 805 family-managed firms to...

This paper studies the determinants of the export activity of family SMEs, disentangling the three main dimensions that comprise the concept of familiness: power, experience, and culture. The results, using the F-PEC scale over a sample of 500 Spanish SMEs, show that this approach identifies the...