Some scholars have argued that globalization will reduce the importance of local contexts.
We argue instead that despite the increased frequency and intensity of interactions across …

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) play a pivotal role in the development of many emerging
economies. In consequence, they became the focus of scholarly research by economists and …

Emerging economies provide a laboratory for investigating the interaction between firm
strategies and local contexts. Mike Wright and colleagues have shaped this research agenda by …

… KE Meyer et al. … KE Meyer et al. and Meyer, 2004) and influences foreign entrants’ mode
decisions by moderating the costs of alternative organizational forms (Williamson, 1985). In …

The process of change from a centrally planned system to a market economy generates an
institutional framework that is only partially reformed, and therefore inconsistent and unstable…

Since the 1990s, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has provided unique societal quasi-experiments,
which represent opportunities to test the applicability of existing theories in …

 Foreign investors entering emerging markets have to take strategic decisions
on where and how to set up operations. These decisions have to accommodate institutional …

Local firms may attract productivity spillovers from foreign investors, yet these vary with local
firms' awareness, capability and motivation to react to foreign entry. In consequence, …

… As junior scholars embarking on our research career focusing on transition economies (Meyer
on CEE and Peng on China) and struggling with gaining the first acceptances of our …

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is expected to generate technology spillovers to indigenous
firms in transition economies. This paper disentangles the positive effect of technology …