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Inward Greenfield R&D Foreign Direct Investment and the Development of Shenzhen’s Innovation Ecosystem (2025)
Book Chapter
Wu, L., & Sutherland, D. (in press). Inward Greenfield R&D Foreign Direct Investment and the Development of Shenzhen’s Innovation Ecosystem. In C. Williams, & M. Kaspar (Eds.), Foreign Direct Investment and Cities: Global Case Studies for Theory and Practice. Routledge

We explore the pivotal role of greenfield R&D foreign direct investments in transforming Shenzhen's innovation ecosystem and establishing it as a key R&D cluster in China. Since the 1979 economic reforms, Shenzhen has rapidly developed into an innova... Read More about Inward Greenfield R&D Foreign Direct Investment and the Development of Shenzhen’s Innovation Ecosystem.

Natural Language Processing Algorithms to Improve Digital Marketing Data Quality and Its Ethical Implications (2025)
Journal Article
Pons, S., Huertas-Garcia, R., Lengler, J., & Nascimento, D. (online). Natural Language Processing Algorithms to Improve Digital Marketing Data Quality and Its Ethical Implications. Psychology and Marketing, https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.22211

The ethical implications of personalization in digital marketing are significantly greater when companies adapt their marketing actions to individual consumer preferences. While this approach helps to reduce oversaturation and a sense of irrelevance... Read More about Natural Language Processing Algorithms to Improve Digital Marketing Data Quality and Its Ethical Implications.

Customer Orientation and Stock Resilience During Adversity Periods (2025)
Journal Article
Andreou, P., Lambertides, N., Trigeorgis, L., & Tuneshev, R. (in press). Customer Orientation and Stock Resilience During Adversity Periods. Journal of Corporate Finance, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2025.102780

Customer orientation reflects the organizational culture and climate that promote behaviors enabling the firm to create superior value for its customers. Using a textual measure of customer orientation (Custor) constructed from 10-K filings, we docum... Read More about Customer Orientation and Stock Resilience During Adversity Periods.

Your potential knows no bounds: do local CEOs influence firms’ overseas R&D activities? (2025)
Journal Article
Zhong, X., He, X., & Zhang, W. (2025). Your potential knows no bounds: do local CEOs influence firms’ overseas R&D activities?. Journal of Business Research, 192, Article 115287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115287

CEOs significantly affect firms’ strategic choices; however, little is known about whether and how local CEOs influence firms’ overseas research and development (R&D) decisions. By synthesising upper echelons theory and place attachment theory, we ex... Read More about Your potential knows no bounds: do local CEOs influence firms’ overseas R&D activities?.

Leveraging and contributing to ecosystems in developing markets: the integrative role of Swedish competence-creating subsidiaries in Brazil (2025)
Journal Article
Andersson, U., Gillmore, E., & Reilly, M. (2025). Leveraging and contributing to ecosystems in developing markets: the integrative role of Swedish competence-creating subsidiaries in Brazil. Revista de Administração de Empresas, 65(3), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0034-759020250308

We analyze the role of Swedish competence-creating subsidiaries in the upgrading of local ecosystems within the Brazilian context. Using multiple cases we highlight the role of subsidiaries for job creation and economic development – via spillovers o... Read More about Leveraging and contributing to ecosystems in developing markets: the integrative role of Swedish competence-creating subsidiaries in Brazil.

Strategic Agility in the B2B Sharing Economy Ecosystem of Emerging Economies: Empirical Insights from the Middle East (2025)
Journal Article
Abdalla, S., Amankwah-Amoah, J., Khan, Z., & Hirekhan, M. (2025). Strategic Agility in the B2B Sharing Economy Ecosystem of Emerging Economies: Empirical Insights from the Middle East. Industrial Marketing Management, 125, 431-445

Strategic agility plays a critical role in enhancing business competitiveness. However, research on how business-to-business (B2B) organizations develop and implement strategic agility within the sharing economy ecosystem remains limited. This study,... Read More about Strategic Agility in the B2B Sharing Economy Ecosystem of Emerging Economies: Empirical Insights from the Middle East.

Negotiating the ethical terrain in global value chains on the road towards the SDGs (2025)
Journal Article
Sinkovics, N., Hoque, S. F., Sinkovics, R. R., & Gunaratne, D. (2025). Negotiating the ethical terrain in global value chains on the road towards the SDGs. Asian Business and Management, 24(1), 55-96. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41291-025-00287-8

This paper employs a pattern matching approach to explore the tensions arising from differences in the ethical dispositions of multinational enterprise (MNE) buyers and their suppliers within the Bangladeshi apparel manufacturing sector. It examines... Read More about Negotiating the ethical terrain in global value chains on the road towards the SDGs.

Platform-based multinational corporations (PMNCs):A research agenda in the field of international business (2025)
Journal Article
Kang, Z., Kou, H., Zhou, D., Shi, X., Parente, R., & Rong, K. (online). Platform-based multinational corporations (PMNCs):A research agenda in the field of international business. International Business Review, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2024.102386

The rise of platform-based multinational corporations (PMNCs) driven by the digital economy has increasingly provided new implications for international business (IB) theories. IB scholars have begun to explore alternative research streams that provi... Read More about Platform-based multinational corporations (PMNCs):A research agenda in the field of international business.

International Business and SDG 8 - Exploring the Relationship between IB and Society (2024)
Book
Sinkovics, N., Sinkovics, R. R., Boussebaa, M., & Fletcher, M. (Eds.). (2024). International Business and SDG 8 - Exploring the Relationship between IB and Society. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46802-5

The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8 aims to promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all. The twelve associated targets call for action in a number of interconnected domains... Read More about International Business and SDG 8 - Exploring the Relationship between IB and Society.

An advanced meta-ranking for the expanding international business field – Journal status and future trajectories (2024)
Journal Article
Tüselmann, H., Sinkovics, R. R., & Pishchulov, G. (2025). An advanced meta-ranking for the expanding international business field – Journal status and future trajectories. Journal of World Business, 60(2), Article 101609. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101609

We re-examine and advance the landscape of academic journal publishing, specifically focusing on international business (IB) journals. While previous journal rankings have identified sixteen domain-specific IB journals, a renewed look at the journal... Read More about An advanced meta-ranking for the expanding international business field – Journal status and future trajectories.

Navigating Temporary Competitive Advantage: Pandemic‐Driven Strategies in the Global Airline Industry (2024)
Journal Article
Amankwah‐Amoah, J., Nyame-Asiamah, F., & Ayiine-Etigo, D. (online). Navigating Temporary Competitive Advantage: Pandemic‐Driven Strategies in the Global Airline Industry. Thunderbird International Business Review, https://doi.org/10.1002/tie.22423

The present study examines the evolution and dynamics of temporary competitive advantage (TCA) in the volatile airline industry. This is illustrated by using the context of COVID‐19 pandemic to understand the risk faced by the global airline industry... Read More about Navigating Temporary Competitive Advantage: Pandemic‐Driven Strategies in the Global Airline Industry.

How does colonial history matter for expatriate adjustment? The case of Brazilians in Portugal (2024)
Journal Article
Aguzzoli, R., Śliwa, M., Lengler, J., Brewster, C., & Quatrin, D. (online). How does colonial history matter for expatriate adjustment? The case of Brazilians in Portugal. Journal of International Business Studies, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-024-00754-y

The literature on expatriation typically assumes that cultural and institutional familiarity facilitates expatriate adjustment. This assumption underplays the role of the historical context, especially the influence of painful colonial pasts that oft... Read More about How does colonial history matter for expatriate adjustment? The case of Brazilians in Portugal.

Transitioning from responsible and reactive to deeply responsible and proactive international business (2024)
Journal Article
Jones, G. G., Lopes, T. D. S., Pananond, P., van Tulder, R., Sinkovics, N., & Sinkovics, R. R. (2025). Transitioning from responsible and reactive to deeply responsible and proactive international business. Critical Perspectives on International Business, 21(2), 196-225. https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-08-2024-0092

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the role of multi-national enterprises in addressing grand societal challenges, emphasising the need for integrating environmental and social aspects into business models. Drawing on the books of Geoffrey Jones (20... Read More about Transitioning from responsible and reactive to deeply responsible and proactive international business.

Digital transformation in public-private collaborations: The success of humanitarian supply chain operations (2024)
Journal Article
Akhtar, P., De Silva, M., Khan, Z., Tarba, S., Amankwah-Amoah, J., & Wood, G. (2025). Digital transformation in public-private collaborations: The success of humanitarian supply chain operations. International Journal of Production Economics, 279, Article 109461. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2024.109461

Recent years have seen the extensive use of big data analytics, related technological infrastructure, and machine learning applications for digital transformation. The resource dependency related to data-driven applications elicits public-private col... Read More about Digital transformation in public-private collaborations: The success of humanitarian supply chain operations.

Customer Concentration, Firm R&D Investment and Moderation Effects (2024)
Journal Article
Zhao, S., He, X., Ma, B., & Zuo, W. (2025). Customer Concentration, Firm R&D Investment and Moderation Effects. Journal of Business Research, 186, Article 115009. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115009

Building on resource dependence theory (RDT) and attention-based view (ABV), this research examines the impact of customer concentration on firm R&D investment and the conditional factors. We argue a firm with heavy reliance on a high number of major... Read More about Customer Concentration, Firm R&D Investment and Moderation Effects.