Management Research Review: Volume 36 Issue 6

Determinants of foreign subsidiary staffing by service firms

Naoki Ando, Nobuaki Endo

The purpose of this paper is to examine how service firms determine foreign subsidiary staffing, emphasizing the joint effect of an attribute specific to the service sector and…

“It's (not) the economy, stupid”: wasted opportunities (apologies to James Carville)

Michaeline Skiba, Patrick O'Halloran

Taking a broad review of the management and economics literature, the purpose of this paper is to examine how the recent “Great Recession” has had a disproportionate adverse…

Dynamics of entering politically risky foreign markets

Lailani Laynesa Alcantara, Hitoshi Mitsuhashi

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of political risk on firms' likelihood of foreign market entry and performance by adopting a strategic view of political risk…

Language, cultural intelligence and expatriate success

Kyle C. Huff

The purpose of this paper is to examine how cultural intelligence (CQ) and language proficiency are related to cross‐cultural adjustment, expatriate satisfaction, and expatriate…

Evaluating cloud computing services from a total cost of ownership perspective

Marc Walterbusch, Benedikt Martens, Frank Teuteberg

Start‐up companies in particular can benefit from cloud computing services, since frequently they do not operate an internal IT infrastructure. The purpose of this paper is to…