Issue Information

• Date: 01 July 2018
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/tie.21936
• Published date: 01 July 2018

Letter from the Editor

Mary B. Teagarden

Times of transition

Views from Practice

Svend Hollensen, and Erik Møller

Is “glocalization” still the golden way for Electrolux? Is there more to be done?

Akmal S. Hyder, and Aihie Osarenkhoe

Partial or total integration in a cross-border merger? Building a Nordic bank culture

Alfredo Behrens, and Ernesto R. Gantman

Readers of Macunaíma and Martin Fierro are like two ships passing

in the night: Bad for business

Sam H. L. Fouad, and Raul Gouvea

The U.S.–Brazil relationship opportunity: Business synergies for a

dynamic global environment

Emerging Market Perspectives: Africa

Joseph Amankwah-Amoah

Cultivating greater self-confidence in African management research

Ochuko B. Emudainohwo, Agyenim Boateng, Sanjukta Brahma, and Franklin Ngwu

Analysis of government policies, institutions, and inward foreign

direct investment: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Charles Blankson, Michael Fiifi Nkrumah, Gertrude Opare, and Seth Ketron

Positioning strategies and congruence in the positioning of high-end indigenous

and foreign retailers in sub-Saharan Africa: An illustration from Ghana

Guy Thompson Agyapong, Frederick Mmieh, and Chima Mordi

Factors influencing the growth of SMEs: The case of Ghana

Atif Awad, and Hoda Ragab

The economic growth and foreign direct investment nexus:

Does democracy matter? Evidence from African countries

Chukwumerije Okereke, Olusegun Vincent, and Chima Mordi

Determinants of Nigerian managers’ environmental attitude:

Africa’s Ubuntu ethics versus global capitalism

Amoako Kwarteng, Samuel Ato Dadzie, Samuel Famiyeh, and Alphones Mawusi Kwasi Aklamanu

Institutional dimensions and conflict resolution strategy in international

joint ventures: An empirical examination

Emerging Market Perspectives: China

David A. Ralston, Yim-Yu Wong, Carolyn P. Egri, Carlos W. H. Lo, Yongjuan Li, Xuejiao Dutton,

and Jun Yang

East vis-à-vis West: The evolution of work values within China regions

Xueli Huang, and Warren Staples

Do Chinese corporations take their governance practices abroad? Evidence from

Chinese mining subsidiaries in Australia

Hongmin Yan, Rumintha Wickramasekera, and Alvin Tan

Exploration of Chinese SMEs’ export development: The role of managerial

determinants based on an adapted innovation-related internationalization model

Dimensions of International Business

Jane Maley, and Miriam Moeller

Inpatriate managers: Are they being effectively utilized as global talent?

Albert Wöcke, Robert Grosse, Anthony Stacey, and Natasha Brits

Social identity in MNCs based on language and nationality

Matthew J. Monnot

The effect of incentives on intrinsic motivation and employee attitudes:

A multilevel study across nations and cultural clusters

Arpita Agnihotri, and Saurabh Bhattacharya

International acquisitions and emerging market firms’ performance—a structural

contingency perspective

Anran Li

Foreign subsidiaries’ status: Distinctive determinants and implications

for subsidiary performance

Ibne Hassan, Pervez N. Ghauri, and Ulrike Mayrhofer

Merger and acquisition motives and outcome assessment

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