Global Strategy

Avoid, acquiesce or engage? How to manage corruption abroad

Multinational firms face challenges in host countries where corruption is common, due to concerns that they will need to engage in corrupt acts in order to survive. Some respond by…

Fainshmidt, Smith and Judge

This study examines how national competitiveness, measured as productivity per worker, is fostered within an economy using a sample of 90 developed and developing economies. We build upon Porter’s popular…

Biranu, Gambardella, & Valentini on Bribery and Investment

We ask whether, along with ethical issues, bribing affects the behavior and performance of firms in A frica and L atin A merica. Our statistical analysis shows that bribe payments…

Susan Perkins, Randall Morck, Bernard Yeung – Innocents Abroad

We examine international joint ventures in the telecommunications industry in Brazil, where pyramidal groups are ubiquitous. We explain how corporate governance differences between pyramidal groups versus widely held freestanding firms…

Location matters: Valuing firmspecific nonmarket risk…global mining industry

We argue that mines located near environmentally sensitive water sources are subject to nonmarket risks arising from the potential collective actions of local stakeholders and their allies. Stakeholder mobilization can…

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…

When do latecomer firms undertake international open innovation?

Video abstract for the Global Strategy Journal article “When do latecomer firms undertake international open innovation: Evidence from China” by Xiaolan Fu, Yawen Li, Jizhen Li, and Henry Chesbrough. Click…

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