Issue Information

• Date: 01 March 2021
• Published date: 01 March 2021
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/tie.22075

THUNDERBIRD

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS REVIEW

A Publication of the Thunderbird School of Global Management, a unit of the Arizona State University Enterprise

VOLUME 63 • NUMBER 2

MARCH/APRIL 2021

Mary B. Teagarden

Making sense of the kaleidoscopic image that is international business

Views from Practice

Andrew Atherton

China’s emerging businesses: The next generation of global corporations?

John O. Okpara, Jean D. Kabongo, and Wai Kwan (Elaine) Lau

Effects of predeparture and postarrival cross-cultural trainings on expatriates adjustment: A study of Chinese

expatriates in Nigeria

Fadi Alsarhan, Sa’ad Ali, David Weir, and Marc Valax

Impact of gender on use of wasta among human resources management practitioners

Igor Gurkov, Alexandra Kokorina, Zokirzhon Saidov, and Olga Balaeva

Rituals of opening ceremonies of overseas manufacturing facilities of multinational corporations in Russia

Research Articles

Belay Seyoum and Andrea Camargo

State fragility and foreign direct investment: The mediating roles of human flight and economic decline

Daria Soloveva, Reza Yamini, and Jiuchang Wei

A merry host makes bolder guests: An analysis of cross-border investment choices of Chinese firms

Priya Nagaraj and Mike Chao

Regulatory institutional distance and the United States multinational corporations’ research and development

investment decisions

Mikael Hilmersson, Martin Johanson, Heléne Lundberg, and Stylianos Papaioannou

Opportunity novelty, improvisation and network adaptation in the internationalization of Swedish SMEs

Krista B. Lewellyn and Rosey ‘Shuji’ Bao

R&D investment around the world: Effects of ownership and performance-based cultural contexts

Mike Szymanski and Komal Kalra

Performance effects of interaction between multicultural managers and multicultural team members: Evidence

from elite football competitions

Mike Szymanski, Richard A. Wolfe, Wade Danis, Fiona Lee, and Marilyn A. Uy

Sport and International Management: Exploring research synergy

Letter from the Editor

ISSN: 1096-4762 (print)

1520-6874 (online)