Global Strategy IG

SMS PhD Chats: Planning Your Dissertation

Release date: December 6, 2021 Speakers: Anita McGahan (University of Toronto), Phanish Puranam (INSEAD), Samina Karim (Northeastern University), and Aseem Kaul (University of Minnesota) Description: Following extensive discussions of job market issues, the SMS…

Complexity Offering Opportunity: Mutual Learning Between ZGH and Volvo in Post-Acquisition Process

Video abstract for the Global Strategy Journal article “Complexity offering opportunity: Mutual learning between Zhejiang Geely Holding Group and Volvo Cars in the post-acquisition process” authored by Anna Jonsson and…

SMS PhD Chats: Job Talks and Visits

Release date: August 25, 2021 Speakers: Marie Louise Mors (Copenhagen Business School), Chris Rider (University of Michigan), Samina Karim (Northeastern University), and Aseem Kaul (University of Minnesota) Description: As we head…

Stefano Elia with Federico Caniato, Davide Luzzine, & Lucia Piscitello

This article deals with the performance implications of the governance mode (captive offshoring versus outsourcing) selected when companies offshore service activities, which is still quite controversial in the literature. After…

Are scores on Hofstede’s dimensions of national culture stable over time?

Hofstede’s framework, which is based on survey data collected in the late 1960s and early 1970s, dominates quantitative culture research in international strategic management. However, as countries develop economically, modernization…

Supplier evolution in global value chains and the new brand game…

We explore the emergence of rising power firms from the peripheries of GVCs. An increasing number of major brand-holding companies from traditionally industrialized economies have been acquired by suppliers from…

Acquisitions as entrepreneurship

We investigate the rapid internationalization of many multinationals from emerging economies through acquisition in advanced economies. We conceptualize these acquisitions as an act and form of entrepreneurship, aimed to overcome…

Born globals from emerging economies

Our research finds that exporting by young firms are enabled to a greater extent (than established firms) when they use Internet technologies and tap into mobile talent (such as cross-national…

To engage or not to engage with host governments

Senior managers of multinational enterprises often examine when and how to engage, or not to engage, with host governments. We argue that senior managers are likely to choose to evade…

Business models in global competition

MNEs seek value in the global marketplace through distinctive business models, as is the case in other markets. Global markets add layers of complication, as the MNE needs both a…

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