Cross Cultural & Strategic Management: Volume 29 Issue 2

Opportunism, bounded rationality and governance choices in exploration alliances: the moderating role of boundary spanners' guanxi

Liang-Hung Lin, Yu-Ling Ho

By distinguishing opportunism-based and bounded rationality-based transaction costs, the study examines how firms use equity/relational governance and boundary spanners' guanxi to…

The entrepreneurial advantages of experiencing foreignness: leveraging shocks for capability clusters

Robert J. Pidduck

Drawing on the “shocks to the system” concept in image theory, a mid-range theoretical model is developed to illuminate understanding on why cross-cultural experience is so…

Influence of socioemotional wealth on non-family managers’ risk taking and product innovation in family businesses

Poh Yen Ng, Mumin Dayan, Marianna Makri

There is a growing interest in understanding family firms’ strategic behavior using the socioemotional wealth (SEW) perspective. This study explores how family SEW dimensions…

Friend or foe? The effects of harmonious and obsessive passion on entrepreneurs’ well-being, strain and social loneliness

Secil Bayraktar, Alfredo Jiménez

Passion is considered a critical aspect of entrepreneurship. According to the dualistic model of passion (DMP), entrepreneurs’ passion for their work can be harmonious or…

Collectivistic norms, beliefs and Mexican OCBs: gender and generation differences

Miguel A. Baeza, Jorge Gonzalez, Olga Chapa, Richard A. Rodriguez

The authors study the role of collectivistic norms and beliefs on organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) in Mexico, including differences across gender and generations.

Family firms, national culture and corporate social performance: a meta-analysis

Jiawen Chen, Linlin Liu

Extant literature is ambiguous on the corporate social performance (CSP) of family firm. This paper aims to synthesize existing evidence of the relationship between family firm…

The relevance of bilateral political relations between countries for the completion stage premium of cross-border mergers and acquisitions

Zhenkuo Ding, Man Hu, Sheng Huang

The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of bilateral political relations on the completion stage premium of cross-border mergers and acquisitions(CSPCMA) and the…

Cognitive cultural intelligence and entrepreneurial alertness: evidence from highly educated, employed immigrants in the USA

Jie Yang, Mingchuan Yu, Jintong Tang, Jieqiong Ma

There is a dearth of research on how immigrants' cognitive attributes influence their willingness to be self-employed. To offset this paucity, the current study draws on the…

Interpersonal knowledge transfer within the multinational enterprise: incorporating identity based quasi-formal knowledge governance mechanisms

Revti Raman Sharma, Himadree Phookan

The paper aims to incorporate the social identity theory perspectives to the knowledge-based view in order to suggest how certain organizational characteristics can be leveraged…

The effects of ethnic diversity and friendship ties on managers' emotional exhaustion: a network-based case study of Caribbean information technology firms

Craig Galbraith, Cheryl Ann Phillips-Hall, Gergory Merrill

The purpose of this article is to empirically examine the relationship between managers' emotional exhaustion and the ethnic diversity, workload requirements, and friendship ties…