International Business Review

Why do some scholars emphasize the benefits realized by returnee entrepreneurs, whereas others highlight the returnee liability? By analyzing interviews with twenty Kenyan returnee entrepreneurs, we make three contributions to scholarship on returnee entrepreneurship. First, we reconcile two well-developed but separate and almost-contradictory bodies of the extant literature by showing that the r…

Geopolitical tensions are reshaping the global business environment, yet international business research continues to treat geopolitics primarily as an external institutional constraint. This Perspective proposes a shift in focus toward understanding how geopolitical tensions affect multinational enterprises (MNEs) by centering the attention on corporate nationality and how it shapes firm respons…

The accelerating digital transformation of international business has given rise to a critical tension: while traditional organizational learning theory emphasizes the gradual accumulation of experiential knowledge as the foundation for international expansion, Big Data Analytics introduces an alternative, algorithmic logic of learning that challenges this established paradigm. Grounded in organi…

Using a unique, hand-collected sample of 169 firms in the Caribbean region, this paper explores an interrelationship between business group (BG) control, institutional factors and firm-level transparency in offshore financial centres. Our analysis shows that BG control is positively associated with the degree of information disclosure in these generally secretive jurisdictions. This relationship …

The internationalization of Chinese multinational enterprises (MNEs) has triggered a rapid rise in research on their knowledge management practices. However, this literature lacks a coherent theory to explain variation in Chinese MNEs’ knowledge management strategies in and over time. In particular, we still lack an understanding of how firms navigate the unique tension between a home-country sta…

One-off export sales – unprecedented and unrepeated shipments of a specific product to a specific destination – are widespread. We argue that, despite their brevity, such experiences can enhance firms’ ability to export and expand their product and destination scope, albeit less so than experience from recurrent export episodes. Analysing anonymized official business account data of monthly expor…