International Journal of Emerging Markets: Volume 12 Issue 2

Reverse innovation: a systematic literature review

Marine Hadengue, Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin, Thierry Warin

Interest in reverse innovation (RI) is increasing. According to the authors’ review, more than 350 reliable sources (scientific publications, academic books and working papers…

National societal values and corporate governance

Mingming Feng, Tony Kang, Sandeep Nabar

The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between national societal values and corporate governance in emerging markets.

Antecedents and consequences of consumer ethnocentrism: evidence from South Africa

Chris Pentz, Nic Terblanche, Christo Boshoff

Despite today’s globalised business world, there is a dearth of knowledge on the influence of consumer ethnocentrism on the purchasing behaviour of consumers in developing…

Influence of managers’ time orientation on strategic practices in the UAE: The moderating role of environmental uncertainty

Ali Abu-Rahma, Bushra Jaleel

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between time orientation and strategic practices in the context of an Arab country. Toward this end, the paper studies a…

How Brazilians shop? An investigation of Brazilians’ consumer values, lifestyles and mindset

Rafael Lucian

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of Brazilian consumers’ personal behavioral values, lifestyle, and mindsets in relation to purchase decisions.

A comparative analysis of channel incentive programs in Brazil and the USA

Luciano Thome Castro, Marcos Fava Neves, Jay Taylor Akridge

The purpose of this paper is to propose a channel incentive program conceptual framework. In order to do so, a consolidated theoretical effort was completed together with…

Institutional distance and the performance of foreign subsidiaries in Brazilian host market

Karim Marini Thomé, Janann Joslin Medeiros, Bruce A. Hearn

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the ongoing and unresolved debate in the international business (IB) literature with respect to what drives or impedes multinational…

Determinants of deposits in conventional and Islamic banking: a case of an emerging economy

Beenish Akhtar, Waheed Akhter, Muhammad Shahbaz

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of base lending rate (BLR), consumer prices, gross domestic product, money supply (M₃), Karachi stock exchange composite index…

How do fiscal adjustments change the income distribution in emerging market economies?

João Tovar Jalles

The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the relationship between fiscal consolidations and changes in income distribution.

Asymmetric volatility and conditional expected returns: Evidence from emerging market sectors

Hisham Al Refai, Mohamed Abdelaziz Eissa, Rami Zeitun

The risk-return relationship is one of the most widely investigated topics in finance, yet this relationship remains one of the most controversial topics. The purpose of this…

Volatility spillovers between crude oil price and stock markets: evidence from BRIC countries

Bhaskar Bagchi

The purpose of this paper is to examine the dynamic relationship between crude oil price volatility and stock markets in the emerging economies like BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India…

Real exchange rates persistence in the West African monetary zone: a revisit of the PPP puzzle

Bernard Njindan Iyke

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the purchasing power parity (PPP) holds for countries in the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ).

Value-at-risk and stock returns: evidence from India

Tariq Aziz, Valeed Ahmad Ansari

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of value-at-risk (VaR) in the cross-section of stock returns in the Indian stock market during the period 1999-2014.

The pre-acquisition process: The temporal hiatus between the announcement and completion in foreign acquisitions in Brazil

Manuel Portugal Ferreira, Felipe Borini, Simone Vicente, Martinho Ribeiro Almeida

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the pre-acquisition process and, specifically, how the complexity involved in the transaction may drive the temporal gap between the…