Cross Cultural & Strategic Management: Volume 30 Issue 3

The establishment mode of Chinese MNEs abroad and the Belt and Road Initiative: insights from a strategy tripod perspective

Diego Quer

Emerging-market multinational enterprises (MNEs) have pushed institutional factors to the cutting-edge of international business research. As for Chinese MNEs, the importance of…

Mission drift or mission fulfillment? Examining microfinance's financial and social performance with growth curve modeling and variance decomposition

Peiyi Jia, Sunny Li Sun

Examining multilevel effects of financial and social performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs), the authors aim to investigate microfinance mission drift from the trend…

Toward improved international joint ventures performance in India: the mediating role of ambidexterity and the moderating role of environmental dynamism

Ishita Batra, Sanjay Dhir

Performance has been a significant concern of the international joint ventures (IJVs) literature. This paper aims to empirically capture the impact of firm-level factors on IJVs…

Expatriation and repatriation as one integrated process: the roles of developmental assignments, repatriate turnover, employee willingness for expatriation and repatriation support practices

Chun-Hsiao Wang

This paper aims to integrate the perspectives of expatriation and repatriation not as two unrelated stages but rather as one integrated process.

Effect of equity checks and balances on corporate social responsibility: A moderated mediating effect

Ya-ru Yang, Jianqiong Wang, Wentao Lou

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the interaction between internal factors of corporate governance, especially the relationship between equity checks and balances and…

Managing interorganizational renqing practices in high-performance organizations in Taiwan: the when, where and how of renqing giving

Wei-Shen Hui, Houn-Gee Chen, Yi-Te Chiu, Matevz (Matt) Raskovic

Relationships are a critical success factor for business operations across markets with dominant Chinese culture, like Taiwan. The intersection of a high-quality institutional…

The cost of foreign ownership: Voluntary sustainability reporting and financial performance in an emerging economy

Ru-Shiun Liou, Pi-Hui Ting, Ying-Yu Chen

Many emerging economy firms are under foreign owners' pressure to embrace the challenges of addressing corporate social responsibility (CSR) and consider adopting sustainability…

Struggling or juggling: work-life balance challenges of Western self-initiated women expatriates in the United Arab Emirates

Rizwan Tahir

This qualitative study is grounded on in-depth interviews with 30 Western women self-initiated expatriate (SIEs) currently living and working in the UAE. When selecting the…

Is “regional culture” a meaningful concept? Cultural differences across 60 Russian regions

Michael Minkov, Boris Sokolov, Eduard Ponarin, Anna Almakaeva, Ekaterina Nastina

There is an increasing interest in the international management literature in cultural differences between in-country regions. Yet, the regions of any country may be merely…