Management International Review
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Guest Editors
Zaheer Khan (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Geoffrey Wood (Western University, Canada)
Huda Khan (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Pushyarag Puthusserry (University of Kent, UK)
Jie Wu (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Omar Al-Tabbaa (University of Leeds, UK)
Background and Rationale for the Focused Issue
This focused issue aims to advance both theoretical and empirical knowledge about the relationship between multinational enterprises (MNEs) and climate change (including when and where the former act as driver or mitigator), which has been seldom systematically examined but has become one of the most important issues to explore. There is an emerging body of work on MNEs relationship with energy transitions and climate change (Doh, Budhwar and Wood, 2021; Huang, Kerstein and Wang, 2018; Kanagaretnam, Lobo and Zhang, 2022; Kolk and Pinkse, 2008; Pinkse and Kolk, 2012). This focused issue invites scholarly work on this increasingly important topic which lies at the intersections of political economy, law, international management, innovation and the public policy aspects of climate change and the role of MNEs, including comparative studies on developed market multinationals, emerging markets’ multinationals, and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in this regard. Contributions about such relationships, determinants, and consequences are encouraged and studies adopting different levels of analysis, including the firm, market, industry, and state actors are welcome.
It is increasingly recognized that climate change is the greatest single challenge facing governments and firms, specifically MNEs (Buckley et al., 2017; Huang et al., 2018; Kolk and Van Tulder, 2010; Wilson, 1981). Discussing the significance of climate change, Buckley et al., (2022) argue that climate change may disrupt globalisation. Accordingly to grapple with the challenges posed by climate change, an emerging body of work has highlighted the relationship between national institutional configurations and the relative propensity of firms to adopt renewable energy (Doh et al., 2021; Wood et al., 2019). Scholars have highlighted the important role of business organizations, public, private, and not-for-profit, in the climate change challenges (cf. Howard-Grenvile, Buckle, Hoskins and George, 2014; Wright and Nyberg, 2017), as they not only are the most important contributors to ever-increasing carbon emissions (Heede, 2014), but offer innovative approaches to adapt and mitigate the climate change challenges (Doh et al., 2021; Pinkse and Kolk, 2012). As MNEs cross national boundaries, their propensity to promote greener technologies will reflect both country of origin and domicile pressures, as well as strategic choices. Despite its significance, over decades, the topic has received relatively limited attention in the international management and organization literature (Howard-Grenvile et al. 2014; Huang et al., 2018; Kanagaretnam et al., 2022; Wright and Nyberg, 2017).
There is also limited research on examining the role of MNEs in terms of exacerbating or mitigating climate change in their home and host markets (Wang, Wijen and Heugens, 2018). Wang et al. (2018) note that government bodies can have a direct influence on the corporate environmental practices of firms particularly from emerging markets. Popular press (e.g., The Economist, 2019) has noted that countries that are more exposed to climate change face a higher cost of capital. Many economies of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America are particularly vulnerable to severe climate change and have faced drought, including high levels of direct pollution and extreme weather conditions, all of which affect their economic development and quality of life. It has further been noted that firms from more coordinated markets are more inclined to embrace renewable energy sources, whilst there are strong counter-movements against the abandonment of hydrocarbons in the case of firms from liberal markets (Wood et al., 2019). Thus, examining MNEs and their role in mitigating climate change offers important opportunities in advancing the knowledge on the strategies that are effective in addressing climate change in different markets.
Illustrative Topics and Research Questions
Papers for the focused issue could address any of the following questions and topics by adopting comparative perspectives:
Submission Guidelines
Papers for this focused issue should be prepared in accordance with the MIR’s submission guidelines available at:
https://www.springer.com/journal/11575/submission-guidelines?detailsPage=pltci_2329480
Papers should be submitted directly to the guest editors at [email protected] by December 20, 2024. All papers will go through the MIR regular double-blind review process.
References
Buckley, P. J., Doh, J. P. and Benischke, M. H. (2017). Towards a renaissance in international business research? Big questions, grand challenges, and the future of IB scholarship. Journal of International Business Studies, 48(9), 1045–1064.
Buckley, P. J., Strange, R., Timmer, M. P. and de Vries, G. J. (2022). Rent appropriation in global value chains: The past, present, and future of intangible assets, Global Strategy Journal, 12(4), 679-696.
Doh, J., Budhwar, P. and Wood, G. (2021). Long-term energy transitions and international business: Concepts, theory, methods, and a research agenda. Journal of International Business Studies, 52(5), 951-970.
Economist (2019). Countries most exposed to climate change face higher costs of capital, 15/08/2019.
Heede, R. (2014). Tracing anthropogenic carbon dioxide and methane emissions to fossil fuel and cement producers, 1854–2010. Climatic Change, 122, 229–241.
Howard-Grenville, J., Buckle, S. J., Hoskins, B. J. and George, G. (2014). Climate Change and Management, Academy of Management Journal, 57(3), 615-623.
Huang, H.H., Kerstein, J. and Wang, C. (2018). The Impact of Climate Risk on Firm Performance and Financing Choices: An International Comparison. Journal of International Business Studies, 49(5), 633-656.
Kanagaretnam, K., Lobo, G. and Zhang, L. (2022). Relationship between climate risk and physical and organizational capital. Management International Review, 62(2), 245-283.
Kolk, A. and Pinkse, J. (2008). A perspective on multinational enterprises and climate change: Learning from “an inconvenient truth”?. Journal of International Business Studies, 39(8), 1359-1378.
Kolk, A. and Van Tulder, R. (2010). International business, corporate social responsibility and sustainable development, International Business Review, 19(2), 119-125.
Pinkse, J. and Kolk, A. (2012). Multinational enterprises and climate change: Exploring institutional failures and embeddedness. Journal of International Business Studies, 43(3), 332-341.
Wang, R., Wijen, F. and Heugens, P. P. (2018). Government's green grip: Multifaceted state influence on corporate environmental actions in China. Strategic Management Journal, 39(2), 403-428.
Wilson, L.S. (1981). The world's changing climate —some issues for planners. Long Range Planning, 14(5), 83-89.
Wood, G., Finnegan, J.J., Allen, M.L., Allen, M., Cumming, D., Johan, S., Nicklich, M., Endo, T., Lim, S. and Tanaka, S. (2019). The comparative institutional analysis of energy transitions. Socio-Economic Review. 18(1), 257-294.
Wright, C. and Nyberg, D. (2017). An inconvenient truth: How organizations translate climate change into business as usual. Academy of Management Journal, 60(5), 1633-1661.
Zaheer Khan (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Geoffrey Wood (Western University, Canada)
Huda Khan (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Pushyarag Puthusserry (University of Kent, UK)
Jie Wu (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Omar Al-Tabbaa (University of Leeds, UK)
Background and Rationale for the Focused Issue
This focused issue aims to advance both theoretical and empirical knowledge about the relationship between multinational enterprises (MNEs) and climate change (including when and where the former act as driver or mitigator), which has been seldom systematically examined but has become one of the most important issues to explore. There is an emerging body of work on MNEs relationship with energy transitions and climate change (Doh, Budhwar and Wood, 2021; Huang, Kerstein and Wang, 2018; Kanagaretnam, Lobo and Zhang, 2022; Kolk and Pinkse, 2008; Pinkse and Kolk, 2012). This focused issue invites scholarly work on this increasingly important topic which lies at the intersections of political economy, law, international management, innovation and the public policy aspects of climate change and the role of MNEs, including comparative studies on developed market multinationals, emerging markets’ multinationals, and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in this regard. Contributions about such relationships, determinants, and consequences are encouraged and studies adopting different levels of analysis, including the firm, market, industry, and state actors are welcome.
It is increasingly recognized that climate change is the greatest single challenge facing governments and firms, specifically MNEs (Buckley et al., 2017; Huang et al., 2018; Kolk and Van Tulder, 2010; Wilson, 1981). Discussing the significance of climate change, Buckley et al., (2022) argue that climate change may disrupt globalisation. Accordingly to grapple with the challenges posed by climate change, an emerging body of work has highlighted the relationship between national institutional configurations and the relative propensity of firms to adopt renewable energy (Doh et al., 2021; Wood et al., 2019). Scholars have highlighted the important role of business organizations, public, private, and not-for-profit, in the climate change challenges (cf. Howard-Grenvile, Buckle, Hoskins and George, 2014; Wright and Nyberg, 2017), as they not only are the most important contributors to ever-increasing carbon emissions (Heede, 2014), but offer innovative approaches to adapt and mitigate the climate change challenges (Doh et al., 2021; Pinkse and Kolk, 2012). As MNEs cross national boundaries, their propensity to promote greener technologies will reflect both country of origin and domicile pressures, as well as strategic choices. Despite its significance, over decades, the topic has received relatively limited attention in the international management and organization literature (Howard-Grenvile et al. 2014; Huang et al., 2018; Kanagaretnam et al., 2022; Wright and Nyberg, 2017).
There is also limited research on examining the role of MNEs in terms of exacerbating or mitigating climate change in their home and host markets (Wang, Wijen and Heugens, 2018). Wang et al. (2018) note that government bodies can have a direct influence on the corporate environmental practices of firms particularly from emerging markets. Popular press (e.g., The Economist, 2019) has noted that countries that are more exposed to climate change face a higher cost of capital. Many economies of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America are particularly vulnerable to severe climate change and have faced drought, including high levels of direct pollution and extreme weather conditions, all of which affect their economic development and quality of life. It has further been noted that firms from more coordinated markets are more inclined to embrace renewable energy sources, whilst there are strong counter-movements against the abandonment of hydrocarbons in the case of firms from liberal markets (Wood et al., 2019). Thus, examining MNEs and their role in mitigating climate change offers important opportunities in advancing the knowledge on the strategies that are effective in addressing climate change in different markets.
Illustrative Topics and Research Questions
Papers for the focused issue could address any of the following questions and topics by adopting comparative perspectives:
- How do MNEs address climate change in their home and host markets?
- Counter tendencies of multinationals abandoning efforts at climate change mitigation.
- How do home and host governments’ policies and concerns impact MNEs’ institutional orientation towards sustainability and climate change related challenges?
- How do MNEs manage and adapt their corporate strategies and mitigate climate change?
- How do institutions in countries of origin and domicile influence the strategic choices of MNEs in mitigating climate change?
- How could MNEs incorporate climate-related strategies in their foreign markets’ entry mode decisions?
- Do MNEs possess the necessary resources and technologies to address climate change related risks?
- What is the role of artificial intelligence and climate-related technologies in the mitigation of climate change by MNEs across different markets?
- What is the role of MNEs in addressing climate change-related issues within their extended value chains?
- How do MNEs adapt their value chain governance, coordination, and risk-mitigation arrangements to anticipate and respond to climate change challenges?
- How do MNEs innovate their decision-making, forecasting, and planning approaches to address climate change?
- What is the role of managers and board of directors of MNEs in mitigating climate change?
- What is the impact of climate change on MNEs’ entry mode choices and divestment?
- How do MNEs use management control systems in addressing climate change?
- How do governments, industry associations, MNEs and society mobilize resources and navigate the climate change related challenges?
- How can MNEs and emerging markets’ multinational enterprises embrace business model innovation as a mechanism for tackling climate change challenges? How can such a process deliver sustainable value while accounting for potential trade‐offs?
- Theorizing MNEs and the long energy transition: existing theoretical tensions and new departures/approaches towards climate change mitigation strategies.
Submission Guidelines
Papers for this focused issue should be prepared in accordance with the MIR’s submission guidelines available at:
https://www.springer.com/journal/11575/submission-guidelines?detailsPage=pltci_2329480
Papers should be submitted directly to the guest editors at [email protected] by December 20, 2024. All papers will go through the MIR regular double-blind review process.
References
Buckley, P. J., Doh, J. P. and Benischke, M. H. (2017). Towards a renaissance in international business research? Big questions, grand challenges, and the future of IB scholarship. Journal of International Business Studies, 48(9), 1045–1064.
Buckley, P. J., Strange, R., Timmer, M. P. and de Vries, G. J. (2022). Rent appropriation in global value chains: The past, present, and future of intangible assets, Global Strategy Journal, 12(4), 679-696.
Doh, J., Budhwar, P. and Wood, G. (2021). Long-term energy transitions and international business: Concepts, theory, methods, and a research agenda. Journal of International Business Studies, 52(5), 951-970.
Economist (2019). Countries most exposed to climate change face higher costs of capital, 15/08/2019.
Heede, R. (2014). Tracing anthropogenic carbon dioxide and methane emissions to fossil fuel and cement producers, 1854–2010. Climatic Change, 122, 229–241.
Howard-Grenville, J., Buckle, S. J., Hoskins, B. J. and George, G. (2014). Climate Change and Management, Academy of Management Journal, 57(3), 615-623.
Huang, H.H., Kerstein, J. and Wang, C. (2018). The Impact of Climate Risk on Firm Performance and Financing Choices: An International Comparison. Journal of International Business Studies, 49(5), 633-656.
Kanagaretnam, K., Lobo, G. and Zhang, L. (2022). Relationship between climate risk and physical and organizational capital. Management International Review, 62(2), 245-283.
Kolk, A. and Pinkse, J. (2008). A perspective on multinational enterprises and climate change: Learning from “an inconvenient truth”?. Journal of International Business Studies, 39(8), 1359-1378.
Kolk, A. and Van Tulder, R. (2010). International business, corporate social responsibility and sustainable development, International Business Review, 19(2), 119-125.
Pinkse, J. and Kolk, A. (2012). Multinational enterprises and climate change: Exploring institutional failures and embeddedness. Journal of International Business Studies, 43(3), 332-341.
Wang, R., Wijen, F. and Heugens, P. P. (2018). Government's green grip: Multifaceted state influence on corporate environmental actions in China. Strategic Management Journal, 39(2), 403-428.
Wilson, L.S. (1981). The world's changing climate —some issues for planners. Long Range Planning, 14(5), 83-89.
Wood, G., Finnegan, J.J., Allen, M.L., Allen, M., Cumming, D., Johan, S., Nicklich, M., Endo, T., Lim, S. and Tanaka, S. (2019). The comparative institutional analysis of energy transitions. Socio-Economic Review. 18(1), 257-294.
Wright, C. and Nyberg, D. (2017). An inconvenient truth: How organizations translate climate change into business as usual. Academy of Management Journal, 60(5), 1633-1661.
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Guest Editors:
Gary Knight (Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University, USA)
Zaheer Khan (School of Business, University of Aberdeen, UK)
Niina Nummela (Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Finland)
Submission Deadline: 1 July 2023
We invite you to submit a paper to the Special Issue of International Business Review (IBR) on International Entrepreneurship (IE), which coincides with the 30-year and 20-year anniversaries, respectively, of publication of seminal works by Oviatt and McDougall (1994) and Knight and Cavusgil (2004) in this area. IE emphasizes proactive, innovative, and risk-seeking behaviors aimed at creatively discovering and exploiting opportunities internationally in pursuit of performance advantages (McDougall & Oviatt, 2000). For example, IE can refer to ‘born globals’ and ‘international new ventures’ (INVs) (e.g., Autio, 2005; Knight & Cavusgil, 2004; Oviatt and McDougall, 1994), a category of firms characterized by early or rapid internationalization.
Expanding abroad early and rapidly is a significant and fascinating exception in company internationalization because, historically, most firms initiated international business (IB) substantially after their founding, often decades later (Coviello et al, 2017; Jones & Coviello, 2005). Firms that internationalize early and/or rapidly are usually characterized by a paucity of tangible and financial resources (Knight & Cavusgil, 2004), resulting in the liabilities of small size, youth (e.g., inexperience), and foreignness, and the need to develop and apply distinctive performance-enhancing resources, capabilities, and strategies when they expand abroad (e.g., Jantunen et al, 2008). Research indicates that many such firms exhibit flexibility, international entrepreneurial orientation, learning orientation, and superior international marketing capabilities (e.g., Cavusgil & Knight, 2015; Chandra, Styles, & Wilkinson, 2012; Khan & Lew, 2018).
IE encompasses young entrepreneurial ventures as well as managers in large, established firms who behave like entrepreneurs to launch international ventures (a phenomenon known as ‘corporate entrepreneurship’ or ‘intrapreneurship’) (McDougall & Oviatt, 2000). Firms undertake corporate entrepreneurship to develop new businesses, products or processes inside existing organizations to create value and generate new revenue. Corporate entrepreneurship can energize older organizations by fostering culture, resources, and processes that motivate, support, and engage the firm in entrepreneurial thinking and action. The established firm may develop an idea internally, and then build a startup inside the firms. Or the firm may identify an early-stage startup to acquire or collaborate with, and potentially assimilate into the larger organization.
Scholars also have examined IE as the cross-national exploration, discovery, evaluation, and exploitation of opportunities to create future goods and services (Mainela et al, 2014; Oviatt & McDougall, 2005). Exploration is searching abroad to discover new opportunities, and implies discovery, risk-taking, innovation, and experimentation. Exploitation implies taking advantage of existing opportunities, and developing and executing needed strategies and actions. Capabilities related to both exploration and exploitation support achieving superior international performance.
Firms that undertake IE are affected by national phenomena, such as economic, institutional, and sociocultural factors. Individual entrepreneurs and managers may be influenced by cognitive, emotional, and physical factors (Miller & Breton-Miller, 2017), alongside the risk, uncertainly, and complexity that characterize international expansion.
A growing number of firms adopt transnational entrepreneurship, leveraging the global mobility of people. Transnational entrepreneurs may rely on social and economic resources based in more than one country (Lundberg & Rehnfors, 2018). The category includes international entrepreneurs, migrant entrepreneurs, ethnic entrepreneurs, and returnee entrepreneurs (Drori, Honig, & Wright, 2009; Czinkota, Khan, & Knight, 2021). Migrants launch international ventures, targeting their home countries and other international markets. Migrant entrepreneurs bring to host nations social networks, experience, bridges to foreign investors, and other assets and resources. Interestingly, many of these entrepreneurs are able to overcome the liabilities of underdeveloped home markets, immature institutions, resource poverty, and other challenges (Dabić et al, 2020; Elo et al, 2018). Research is needed on such ‘challenge-based entrepreneurship’, including early and mature stages of growth (e.g., Miller & Breton-Miller, 2017, Rodgers et al., 2022). Other emerging topics relevant to IE include corporate political activity, social responsibility and sustainability (e.g., Rodgers et al., 2019; Shepherd & Patzelt, 2011), as well as social entrepreneurship, which seeks solutions for poverty and other social problems (cf. Zahra et al., 2014; Zucchella, 2021).
The Internet and emerging technologies (e.g., blockchain, digital platforms, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence) are essential elements of IE (Nambisan, Zahra, & Luo, 2019; Walton, 2022). Technology is known to (i) broadly support IE, and (ii) actualize novel international opportunities for firms that operate via digital platforms and ecosystems (Chakravarty et al, 2021). Platforms generate value by facilitating low-cost third-party transactions at scale (e.g., Airbnb, Uber), attracting many buyers and sellers. Digital processes reduce spatial and temporal boundaries and facilitate IE (cf. Monaghan et al., 2020), including the rapid internationalization of firms from emerging and developing economies. Digital platform firms and companies in the services sector undertake early and rapid internationalization as they internationalize via the Internet. In addition, recent research has examined the role of digital platforms in crowdfunding — large-scale online fundraising from many sources for projects or ventures (e.g., Ahsan & Musteen, 2021).
The literature on IE remains fragmented, with substantial gaps in content, theory, and methodology (e.g., Reuber et al, 2017). Event studies, ethnography, mixed-methods research, experimental designs, and other rarely applied methodologies can help move the field forward (e.g., Eden et al., 2022; Nummela, 2014; Zellmer-Bruhn et al., 2016). Research is also needed that leverages theoretical perspectives that have been little employed in IE — for example, the integration-responsiveness framework (e.g., Roth & Morrison, 1990), the organizational life-cycle approach (e.g., Dodge, Fullerton, & Robbins, 1994), the effectuation view (e.g., Sarasvathy, 2001; Sarasvathy et al, 2014), and the legitimacy view (e.g., Kostova & Zaheer, 1999). Other potential theoretical perspectives include the knowledge-based view, capabilities view, resource dependency view, business models view, strategic choice theory, strategic ambidexterity, agency theory, network theory, social capital theory, institutional theory, culture explanations, and numerous others.
Markets and institutions are evolving. Recent exogenous factors — e.g., protectionism, populism, deglobalization, and sanctions — are affecting the landscape of internationalization and firms’ survival and growth. The liabilities of foreignness and local competition remain powerful hurdles in company internationalization. The Covid-19 pandemic has created additional pressures on internationally entrepreneurial firms (Amankwah-Amoah et al., 2021). Research is needed on how firms leverage IE to navigate external shocks and adapt their business models.
Potential Topics for Submissions
This Special Issue welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers. Appropriate topics for submissions include, but are not limited to the following.
The deadline for submission is July 1, 2023. The submission of the manuscripts will be through the IBR online submission system (https://www.editorialmanager.com/ibr) from 1 June until 1 July 2023 only. They should follow the IBR guidelines available at: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/international-business-review/0969-5931/guide-for-authors. Please ensure you submit your paper for this Special Issue by ticking the appropriate box at the above site. Papers will be double-blind reviewed, following the IBR review procedure.
For additional information, contact one of the Special Issue guest editors:
Gary Knight, [email protected]
Zaheer Khan, [email protected]
Niina Nummela, [email protected]
References
Amankwah-Amoah, J., Khan, Z., & Wood, G. (2021). Covid-19 and business failures: The paradoxes of experience, scale and scope for theory and practice. European Management Journal, 39(2), 179-184.
Ahsan, M. & Musteen, M. (2021). International opportunity development on crowdfunding platforms: A spatial, temporal, and structural framework, International Business Review, 30(6), 101912.
Autio, E. (2005). Creative tension: the significance of Ben Oviatt's and Patricia McDougall's article “toward a theory of international new ventures”. Journal of International Business Studies, 36(1), 9-19.
Autio, E., Nambisan, S., Thomas, L.D., & Wright, M. (2018). Digital affordances, spatial affordances, and the genesis of entrepreneurial ecosystems. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 12(1), 72-95.
Cavusgil, S. T. & Knight, G. (2009). Born global firms: A new international enterprise, New York: Business Expert Press.
Cavusgil, S. T. & Knight, G. (2015). The born global firm: An entrepreneurial and capabilities perspective on early and rapid internationalization, Journal of International Business Studies, 46, 3-16.
Chakravarty, S., Cumming, D., Murtinu, S., Scalera, V., & Schwens, C. (2021). Exploring the next generation of international entrepreneurship. Journal of World Business, 56 (5), 101229.
Chandra, Y., Styles, C., & Wilkinson, I. (2012). An opportunity-based view of rapid internationalization. Journal of International Marketing, 20 (1), 74-102.
Coviello, N., Kano, L. & Liesch, P.W. (2017). Adapting the Uppsala model to a modern world: Macro-context and microfoundations. Journal of International Business Studies, 48(9), 1151-1164.
Czinkota, M., Khan, Z. & Knight, G. (2021). International business and the migrant-owned enterprise. Journal of Business Research, 122, 657-669.
Dabić, M., Vlačić, B., Paul, J., Dana, L-P., Sahasranamam, S. & Glinka, B. (2020). Immigrant entrepreneurship: A review and research agenda. Journal of Business Research, 113, 25-38.
Dodge, H., Fullerton, S. & Robbins, J. (1994). Stage of the organizational life cycle and competition as mediators of problem perception for small businesses, Strategic Management Journal, 15, 121-134.
Drori, I., Honig, B., & Wright, M. (2009). Transnational entrepreneurship: An emergent field of study. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 33(5), 1001-1022.
Eden, L., Miller, S.R., Khan, S., Weiner, R. & Li, D. (2022). The event study in international business research: Opportunities, challenges, and practical solutions. Journal of International Business Studies, 53, 803-817.
Elo, M., Sandberg, S., Servais, P., Basco, R., Cruz, A.D., Riddle, L. & Täube, F. (2018). Advancing the views on migrant and diaspora entrepreneurs in international entrepreneurship. Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 16(2), 119-133.
Hurmerinta-Peltomäki, L. & Nummela, N. (2006), Mixed methods in international business research: A value-added perspective. Management International Review, 46(4), 439-459.
Jantunen, A., Nummela, N., Puumalainen, K., & Saarenketo, S. (2008). Strategic orientations of born globals — Do they really matter? Journal of World Business, 43(2), 158-170.
Jones, M.V. & Coviello, N.E. (2005). Internationalisation: Conceptualising an entrepreneurial process of behaviour in time. Journal of International Business Studies, 36(3), 284-303.
Khan, Z., & Lew, Y. (2018). Post-entry survival of developing economy international new ventures: A dynamic capability perspective. International Business Review, 27(1), 149-160.
Knight, G. & Cavusgil, S.T. (2004). Innovation, organizational capabilities, and the born-global firm. Journal of International Business Studies, 35, 124-141.
Kostova, T. & Zaheer, S. (1999). Organizational legitimacy under conditions of complexity: The case of the multinational enterprise. Academy of Management Review, 24, 64–81.
Li, J., Chen, L., Yi, J., Mao, J., & Liao, J. (2019). Ecosystem-specific advantages in international digital commerce. Journal of International Business Studies, 50(9), 1448–1463.
Lundberg, H. & Rehnfors, A. (2018). Transnational entrepreneurship: Opportunity identification and venture creation. Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 16(2), 150-175.
Mainela, T., Puhakka, V. & Servais, P. (2014). The concept of international opportunity in international entrepreneurship: A review and a research agenda. International Journal of Management Reviews, 16(1), 105-129.
McDougall, P. & Oviatt, B. (2000). International entrepreneurship: The intersection of two research paths. Academy of Management Journal, 43, 902-906.
Miller, D., & Le Breton-Miller, I. (2017). Underdog entrepreneurs: A model of challenge–based entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. 41(1), 7-17.
Monaghan, S., Tippmann, E., & Coviello, N. (2020). Born digitals: Thoughts on their internationalization and research agenda. Journal of International Business Studies, 51(1), 11-22.
Nambisan, S., S. Zahra & Luo, Y. (2019). Global platforms and ecosystems: Implications for international business theories. Journal of International Business Studies, 50, 1464-1486.
Nummela, N. (2014). Future agenda for research design in international entrepreneurship. In The Routledge Companion to International Entrepreneurship (pp. 265-275). Routledge.
Oviatt, B. & McDougall, P. (1994). Toward a theory of international new ventures. Journal of International Business Studies, 25(1), 45–64.
Oviatt, B. & McDougall, P. (2005). Defining international entrepreneurship and modeling the speed of internationalization. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 29(5), 537-553.
Reuber, A.R., Dimitratos, P. & Kuivalainen, O. (2017). Beyond categorization: New directions for theory development about entrepreneurial internationalization. Journal of International Business Studies, 48, 411–422.
Rodgers, P., Stokes, P., Tarba, S., & Khan, Z. (2019). The role of non-market strategies in establishing legitimacy: The case of service MNEs in emerging economies. Management International Review, 59(4), 515-540.
Rodgers, P., Vershinina, N., Khan, Z., & Stokes, P. (2022). Small firms' non-market strategies in response to dysfunctional institutional settings of emerging markets. International Business Review, 31(4), 101891.
Roth, K., & Morrison, A. (1990). An empirical analysis of the integration-responsiveness framework in global industries. Journal of International Business Studies, 21, 541–564.
Sarasvathy, S. (2001). Causation and effectuation: Toward a theoretical shift from economic inevitability to entrepreneurial contingency. Academy of Management Review, 26, 243–263.
Sarasvathy, S., Kumar, K., York, J.G. & Bhagavatula, S. (2014). An effectual approach to international entrepreneurship: Overlaps, challenges, and provocative possibilities. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 38(1), 71-93.
Shepherd D., & Patzelt H. (2011). The new field of sustainable entrepreneurship: Studying entrepreneurial action linking “what is to be sustained” with “what is to be developed”. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 35(1), 137-163.
Walton, N. (2022). Digital platforms as entrepreneurial ecosystems and drivers of born-global SMEs in emerging economies. International Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets. 84-106. Routledge.
Zahra, S., Newey, L. & Li, Y. (2014). On the frontiers: The implications of social entrepreneurship for international entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 38(1), 137-158.
Zellmer-Bruhn, M., Caligiuri, P., & Thomas, D.C. (2016). From the editors: Experimental designs in international business research. Journal of International Business Studies, 47(4), 399-407.
Zucchella, A. (2021). International entrepreneurship and the internationalization phenomenon: Taking stock, looking ahead. International Business Review, 30(2), 101800.
Gary Knight (Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University, USA)
Zaheer Khan (School of Business, University of Aberdeen, UK)
Niina Nummela (Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Finland)
Submission Deadline: 1 July 2023
We invite you to submit a paper to the Special Issue of International Business Review (IBR) on International Entrepreneurship (IE), which coincides with the 30-year and 20-year anniversaries, respectively, of publication of seminal works by Oviatt and McDougall (1994) and Knight and Cavusgil (2004) in this area. IE emphasizes proactive, innovative, and risk-seeking behaviors aimed at creatively discovering and exploiting opportunities internationally in pursuit of performance advantages (McDougall & Oviatt, 2000). For example, IE can refer to ‘born globals’ and ‘international new ventures’ (INVs) (e.g., Autio, 2005; Knight & Cavusgil, 2004; Oviatt and McDougall, 1994), a category of firms characterized by early or rapid internationalization.
Expanding abroad early and rapidly is a significant and fascinating exception in company internationalization because, historically, most firms initiated international business (IB) substantially after their founding, often decades later (Coviello et al, 2017; Jones & Coviello, 2005). Firms that internationalize early and/or rapidly are usually characterized by a paucity of tangible and financial resources (Knight & Cavusgil, 2004), resulting in the liabilities of small size, youth (e.g., inexperience), and foreignness, and the need to develop and apply distinctive performance-enhancing resources, capabilities, and strategies when they expand abroad (e.g., Jantunen et al, 2008). Research indicates that many such firms exhibit flexibility, international entrepreneurial orientation, learning orientation, and superior international marketing capabilities (e.g., Cavusgil & Knight, 2015; Chandra, Styles, & Wilkinson, 2012; Khan & Lew, 2018).
IE encompasses young entrepreneurial ventures as well as managers in large, established firms who behave like entrepreneurs to launch international ventures (a phenomenon known as ‘corporate entrepreneurship’ or ‘intrapreneurship’) (McDougall & Oviatt, 2000). Firms undertake corporate entrepreneurship to develop new businesses, products or processes inside existing organizations to create value and generate new revenue. Corporate entrepreneurship can energize older organizations by fostering culture, resources, and processes that motivate, support, and engage the firm in entrepreneurial thinking and action. The established firm may develop an idea internally, and then build a startup inside the firms. Or the firm may identify an early-stage startup to acquire or collaborate with, and potentially assimilate into the larger organization.
Scholars also have examined IE as the cross-national exploration, discovery, evaluation, and exploitation of opportunities to create future goods and services (Mainela et al, 2014; Oviatt & McDougall, 2005). Exploration is searching abroad to discover new opportunities, and implies discovery, risk-taking, innovation, and experimentation. Exploitation implies taking advantage of existing opportunities, and developing and executing needed strategies and actions. Capabilities related to both exploration and exploitation support achieving superior international performance.
Firms that undertake IE are affected by national phenomena, such as economic, institutional, and sociocultural factors. Individual entrepreneurs and managers may be influenced by cognitive, emotional, and physical factors (Miller & Breton-Miller, 2017), alongside the risk, uncertainly, and complexity that characterize international expansion.
A growing number of firms adopt transnational entrepreneurship, leveraging the global mobility of people. Transnational entrepreneurs may rely on social and economic resources based in more than one country (Lundberg & Rehnfors, 2018). The category includes international entrepreneurs, migrant entrepreneurs, ethnic entrepreneurs, and returnee entrepreneurs (Drori, Honig, & Wright, 2009; Czinkota, Khan, & Knight, 2021). Migrants launch international ventures, targeting their home countries and other international markets. Migrant entrepreneurs bring to host nations social networks, experience, bridges to foreign investors, and other assets and resources. Interestingly, many of these entrepreneurs are able to overcome the liabilities of underdeveloped home markets, immature institutions, resource poverty, and other challenges (Dabić et al, 2020; Elo et al, 2018). Research is needed on such ‘challenge-based entrepreneurship’, including early and mature stages of growth (e.g., Miller & Breton-Miller, 2017, Rodgers et al., 2022). Other emerging topics relevant to IE include corporate political activity, social responsibility and sustainability (e.g., Rodgers et al., 2019; Shepherd & Patzelt, 2011), as well as social entrepreneurship, which seeks solutions for poverty and other social problems (cf. Zahra et al., 2014; Zucchella, 2021).
The Internet and emerging technologies (e.g., blockchain, digital platforms, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence) are essential elements of IE (Nambisan, Zahra, & Luo, 2019; Walton, 2022). Technology is known to (i) broadly support IE, and (ii) actualize novel international opportunities for firms that operate via digital platforms and ecosystems (Chakravarty et al, 2021). Platforms generate value by facilitating low-cost third-party transactions at scale (e.g., Airbnb, Uber), attracting many buyers and sellers. Digital processes reduce spatial and temporal boundaries and facilitate IE (cf. Monaghan et al., 2020), including the rapid internationalization of firms from emerging and developing economies. Digital platform firms and companies in the services sector undertake early and rapid internationalization as they internationalize via the Internet. In addition, recent research has examined the role of digital platforms in crowdfunding — large-scale online fundraising from many sources for projects or ventures (e.g., Ahsan & Musteen, 2021).
The literature on IE remains fragmented, with substantial gaps in content, theory, and methodology (e.g., Reuber et al, 2017). Event studies, ethnography, mixed-methods research, experimental designs, and other rarely applied methodologies can help move the field forward (e.g., Eden et al., 2022; Nummela, 2014; Zellmer-Bruhn et al., 2016). Research is also needed that leverages theoretical perspectives that have been little employed in IE — for example, the integration-responsiveness framework (e.g., Roth & Morrison, 1990), the organizational life-cycle approach (e.g., Dodge, Fullerton, & Robbins, 1994), the effectuation view (e.g., Sarasvathy, 2001; Sarasvathy et al, 2014), and the legitimacy view (e.g., Kostova & Zaheer, 1999). Other potential theoretical perspectives include the knowledge-based view, capabilities view, resource dependency view, business models view, strategic choice theory, strategic ambidexterity, agency theory, network theory, social capital theory, institutional theory, culture explanations, and numerous others.
Markets and institutions are evolving. Recent exogenous factors — e.g., protectionism, populism, deglobalization, and sanctions — are affecting the landscape of internationalization and firms’ survival and growth. The liabilities of foreignness and local competition remain powerful hurdles in company internationalization. The Covid-19 pandemic has created additional pressures on internationally entrepreneurial firms (Amankwah-Amoah et al., 2021). Research is needed on how firms leverage IE to navigate external shocks and adapt their business models.
Potential Topics for Submissions
This Special Issue welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers. Appropriate topics for submissions include, but are not limited to the following.
- Integration of the literature on entrepreneurship and IB. How can ‘entrepreneurship’ perspectives (e.g., behavioral models like bricolage and improvisation) inform IE? How do IB perspectives (e.g., the eclectic paradigm) inform IE?
- Novel theoretical perspectives to explain IE, including the post-entry performance of entrepreneurial firms
- Factors that give rise to early and rapid internationalization
- Role of resources, capabilities, and/or dynamic capabilities in IE, and in born globals and INVs
- Factors that allow born globals and INVs to supersede the advantages of large MNEs
- Processes required for early and rapid internationalization, such as scaling operations up and down
- Multi-level research incorporating diverse units of analysis — individuals, teams, organizations (including non-governmental organizations and nonprofits), networks, platforms, nascent industries, sectors (including products and services), ecosystems, and nations
- Characteristics and antecedents of value creation and capture in IE
- Home- and host-country environments, including cultural and institutional environments, as well as industrial clusters and ecosystems
- Characteristics of opportunity exploration and exploitation in IE. For example, how do opportunities emerge or reveal themselves in IE? How can scholars leverage the opportunities literature to inform IE?
- Emergent factors in the global external environment and their effect on early/rapid internationalization, born globals, and INVs
- IE arising in or from emerging markets and by challenge-based entrepreneurs
- Born global and INV navigation of regulatory uncertainty through non-market strategies
- IE as corporate entrepreneurship or intrapreneurship in a global context
- Implications of emergent, novel trends in globalization and ‘deglobalization’ for IE
- The role of emergent or ‘fourth industrial revolution’ technologies, including digital platforms and ecosystems. For example, how do digital platforms affect the liabilities of size and foreignness in entrepreneurial internationalization and post-entry survival?
- The contrast between traditional views on born globals and INVs that leverage firm-specific advantages, versus digital firms that emphasize external resources and ‘ecosystem-specific advantages’ (e.g., Li et al, 2019).
- Transnational entrepreneurship and the global mobility of people, including international entrepreneurs, migrant entrepreneurs, ethnic entrepreneurs, and returnee entrepreneurs.
- The role of corporate political activity, social responsibility and sustainability in IE and international performance.
- The role of public policy in supporting early internationalization and superior international performance in IE.
- The future of born globals and INVs. How do such firms evolve over time?
The deadline for submission is July 1, 2023. The submission of the manuscripts will be through the IBR online submission system (https://www.editorialmanager.com/ibr) from 1 June until 1 July 2023 only. They should follow the IBR guidelines available at: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/international-business-review/0969-5931/guide-for-authors. Please ensure you submit your paper for this Special Issue by ticking the appropriate box at the above site. Papers will be double-blind reviewed, following the IBR review procedure.
For additional information, contact one of the Special Issue guest editors:
Gary Knight, [email protected]
Zaheer Khan, [email protected]
Niina Nummela, [email protected]
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Joint International Marketing Paper Development Workshop
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1. Fast Facts
2. Who is This Event For?
Hosted jointly by representatives of the Journal of International Marketing and International Marketing Review, This workshop is aimed at providing feedback and guidance to participants on papers in one of two stages: (1) Papers that are nearing submission to JIM/IMR or other leading international marketing journals and, as such, are already in full draft form; and (2) Papers that are still at an advanced idea stage, or essentially the front end of a paper through the planned methodology section but without results, discussion, and implications sections developed.
The goal with the first type of paper is to help the authors polish their manuscripts for submission, identifying key weaknesses and areas for improvement.
For the second type of paper, the expectation is that the conceptual arguments and planned methodology are fairly well developed so that the workshop can be used to help course-correct or steer the authors in a direction that will increase the project’s chances for success. Note that the joint PDW is intended for doctoral students and early career academics.
3. How is This Event Structured?
During the workshop, mentors will provide feedback to participants as to how they can further develop their papers. The workshop will also include a panel discussion on tips for publishing in JIM/IMR and other top journals.
4. How Can I Submit a Paper?
The deadline for submitting a paper is 15 May 2022. Papers should be submitted via AIB’s Online Submission Portal. Once on the website choose the Joint International Marketing Paper Development Workshop”. Papers can be submitted in any formatting style and length, consistent with any of the associated journals; however, they should be in English.
Please note that each participant may submit only one manuscript for the PDW. The cover page of the submission should include all authors’ names, e-mails, and affiliations.
5. What Should I Do if My Paper is Accepted?
By submitting a paper, at least one of the paper’s authors commits to participate in the workshop if the application is accepted. Manuscripts will be selected based on the suitability for JIM/IMR, quality of their submitted work, and fit with one of the two stages described above.
NOTE: Participants must be registered for the AIB 2022 meeting before they confirm their attendance at the Joint International Marketing PDW.
Download the CFP
- Workshop Date: 5 July 2022
- Submission Deadline: 15 May 2022
- PDW Organizer: Kelly Hewett (The University of Tennessee), Olli Kuivalainen (LUT University)
- Contact Info: [email protected], [email protected]
2. Who is This Event For?
Hosted jointly by representatives of the Journal of International Marketing and International Marketing Review, This workshop is aimed at providing feedback and guidance to participants on papers in one of two stages: (1) Papers that are nearing submission to JIM/IMR or other leading international marketing journals and, as such, are already in full draft form; and (2) Papers that are still at an advanced idea stage, or essentially the front end of a paper through the planned methodology section but without results, discussion, and implications sections developed.
The goal with the first type of paper is to help the authors polish their manuscripts for submission, identifying key weaknesses and areas for improvement.
For the second type of paper, the expectation is that the conceptual arguments and planned methodology are fairly well developed so that the workshop can be used to help course-correct or steer the authors in a direction that will increase the project’s chances for success. Note that the joint PDW is intended for doctoral students and early career academics.
3. How is This Event Structured?
During the workshop, mentors will provide feedback to participants as to how they can further develop their papers. The workshop will also include a panel discussion on tips for publishing in JIM/IMR and other top journals.
4. How Can I Submit a Paper?
The deadline for submitting a paper is 15 May 2022. Papers should be submitted via AIB’s Online Submission Portal. Once on the website choose the Joint International Marketing Paper Development Workshop”. Papers can be submitted in any formatting style and length, consistent with any of the associated journals; however, they should be in English.
Please note that each participant may submit only one manuscript for the PDW. The cover page of the submission should include all authors’ names, e-mails, and affiliations.
5. What Should I Do if My Paper is Accepted?
By submitting a paper, at least one of the paper’s authors commits to participate in the workshop if the application is accepted. Manuscripts will be selected based on the suitability for JIM/IMR, quality of their submitted work, and fit with one of the two stages described above.
NOTE: Participants must be registered for the AIB 2022 meeting before they confirm their attendance at the Joint International Marketing PDW.
Download the CFP
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International Knowledge Sourcing by TNCs in Services
Guest Editors:
Scope of the special issue:
In the last 30 years transnational corporations (TNCs) have increasingly located innovation and R&D activities outside their home countries to gain access to knowledge not available at home. This trend is known as international knowledge sourcing, or the internationalization of R&D.
This special issue focuses on papers that examine international knowledge sourcing in service industries. A focus lies on digital multinational enterprises (MNEs) including platform-based TNCs, content providers, e-commerce firms, providers of hardware and software, or telecommunication providers. Empirical evidence suggests that service industries gained a prominent role in international knowledge sourcing in recent years. Digital MNEs – e.g. Alphabet, Microsoft and Facebook – today appear among the largest R&D performers globally.
The trend towards more international knowledge sourcing by service firms is, on the one hand, a result of the diffusion of information and communication technologies which have increased the tradability of services and created new business opportunities. On the other hand, there is general trend towards a higher knowledge intensity in services. The shift towards services, however, is hardly reflected in the academic literature which still focusses on knowledge sourcing in manufacturing firms.
Indicative topics:
We encourage contributions from a variety of perspectives, including international business, innovation economics, economic geography, management, or an international economics perspective. In particular, we welcome papers related to policies towards international knowledge sourcing in services and studies that take an emerging economies perspective on the topic. Contributions may cover, but are not limited to, the following topics:
Guidelines for submission:
Transnational Corporations is an official United Nations academic policy-orientated journal. In line with the scope of the journal (https://unctad.org/Topic/Investment/Transnational-Corporations-Journal/Editorial-Statement), papers submitted to the Special Issue need to include:
Authors should refer to the Transnational Corporations website and the guidelines on submitting papers:
https://unctad.org/Topic/Investment/Transnational-Corporations-Journal/Guidelines-for-Contributors. Questions and informal enquiries should be directed to any of the guest editors.
Submission deadline:
31 August 2022
Approximate date of publication:
Issue 3, December 2022
Submissions should be sent to:
[email protected]
Home page: https://unctad.org/Topic/Investment/
- Bernhard Dachs, Center for Innovation Systems and Policy, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria,
- Tamar Almor, Faculty of Business, College of Management, Rishon LeZion, Israel, [email protected]
- Marina Papanastassiou, Department of International Business, Centre for International Business, University of Leeds, United Kingdom, [email protected]; Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Qatar, [email protected]
- Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann, Faculty of Economics, University of Porto, Portugal, [email protected]
Scope of the special issue:
In the last 30 years transnational corporations (TNCs) have increasingly located innovation and R&D activities outside their home countries to gain access to knowledge not available at home. This trend is known as international knowledge sourcing, or the internationalization of R&D.
This special issue focuses on papers that examine international knowledge sourcing in service industries. A focus lies on digital multinational enterprises (MNEs) including platform-based TNCs, content providers, e-commerce firms, providers of hardware and software, or telecommunication providers. Empirical evidence suggests that service industries gained a prominent role in international knowledge sourcing in recent years. Digital MNEs – e.g. Alphabet, Microsoft and Facebook – today appear among the largest R&D performers globally.
The trend towards more international knowledge sourcing by service firms is, on the one hand, a result of the diffusion of information and communication technologies which have increased the tradability of services and created new business opportunities. On the other hand, there is general trend towards a higher knowledge intensity in services. The shift towards services, however, is hardly reflected in the academic literature which still focusses on knowledge sourcing in manufacturing firms.
Indicative topics:
We encourage contributions from a variety of perspectives, including international business, innovation economics, economic geography, management, or an international economics perspective. In particular, we welcome papers related to policies towards international knowledge sourcing in services and studies that take an emerging economies perspective on the topic. Contributions may cover, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- How did international knowledge sourcing by service firms and digital TNCs evolve over the last decades? What are important host and home countries?
- What differences can be found between developed and developing countries? What is the evidence for international knowledge sourcing outside the OECD, in China and India?
- What differences can be observed across service industries? How can the characteristics of service industries such as the knowledge base explain international sourcing strategies?
- Does the structure of ownership and the size of the domestic market determine the respective knowledge sourcing strategies?
- How do the knowledge sourcing strategies of larger service TNCs differ from those of International New Ventures (INVs), Born Globals (BG), or Born Digitals? What is the role of outsourcing and the fragmentation of value chains for international knowledge sourcing in service firms?
- How relevant is the knowledge base and specialization of the home country for international activities in services? How much local embeddedness in the host country does international knowledge sourcing by service firms need? What is the role of innovation hot-spots, agglomerations, and localized knowledge spillovers for the process?
- What can emerging economies do to attract R&D investments by service TNCs from developed countries? Examples of successful policies are welcomed in particular.
- How do the international knowledge sourcing activities of service TNCs contribute to sustainable development and the SDGs?
Guidelines for submission:
Transnational Corporations is an official United Nations academic policy-orientated journal. In line with the scope of the journal (https://unctad.org/Topic/Investment/Transnational-Corporations-Journal/Editorial-Statement), papers submitted to the Special Issue need to include:
- appropriate policy framing and explicitly stating the policy relevance of the paper
- draw clear policy conclusions from the findings of the study
- include a substantial section on policy implications and policy recommendations engaging with concrete and substantive policy issues relevant to the study and key take-aways for policymakers
- where relevant and where there is a (potential) development angle to the research, address the development impact.
Authors should refer to the Transnational Corporations website and the guidelines on submitting papers:
https://unctad.org/Topic/Investment/Transnational-Corporations-Journal/Guidelines-for-Contributors. Questions and informal enquiries should be directed to any of the guest editors.
Submission deadline:
31 August 2022
Approximate date of publication:
Issue 3, December 2022
Submissions should be sent to:
[email protected]
Home page: https://unctad.org/Topic/Investment/