This study investigates an under-researched yet fundamental question of how a developed country multinational enterprises (DMNE) perceives and manages political risks when undertaking infrastructure projects in the emerging markets (EMs).,The authors use an abduction-based qualitative research approach to analyze six international project operations of a multinational enterprise originating from Finland in five EMs.,The findings suggest that the overall nature of political risks in EMs is not th...
Purpose: Previous literature has often focused on Asian migrants’ acculturation to Western cultures with data collected in the Western contexts. This study will explore Western consumers’ acculturation to East Asian cultures and their consumption behaviour, which fulfils the research scarcity in this area. Design/methodology/approach: This study was conducted via carrying out in-depth interviews with 18 British sojourners in China, exploring how they acculturated to Chinese culture, with a parti...
Purpose – This paper draws upon the Yin and Yang concept of Chinese philosophy within a Western context to examine coopetition, namely, the firm-level behaviours associated with the paradoxical forces of cooperativeness and competitiveness. Earlier studies suggest that coopetition has a positive relationship with company performance. Consideration of this relationship has typically been linear and without moderating factors. Consequently, underpinned by resource-based theory and the relational v...