The global economy as the macro-environment -- Theories of internationalization -- Market entry decisions -- Market entry modes -- The coordination and configuration of global value chains (GVCs) -- The management of the multinational firm.

During the recent COVID-19 pandemic crisis, several high-income countries pursued vaccine nationalism (i.e., my country first approaches for vaccine distribution), leading to an even wider income inequality between rich and poor countries. This significantly challenged the poorer countries'...

Purpose – Source location decision making is a contemporary problem facing many businesses as they globalize their supply chains. This paper seeks to empirically determine the influence of culture on the industrial procurement manager's perception of the different characteristics of potential...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to help leaders to reflect on how to make difficult decisions by developing practical wisdom based on Indian traditions. In complex scenarios, when leaders are is crisis, they often tend to rush into decisions without proper reflection, rely too heavily...

The Netherlands, although a small country with few natural resources, is a major industrial power in the West, and operates some of the world’s largest multinationals. To understand more about human resource management (HRM) practices in this country we used a structured interview format...