Review of International Business and Strategy: Volume 33 Issue 1

Guest editorial: Dynamic capabilities and international business research: managerial and financial perspectives

Enrico Battisti, Michael Christofi

Small and medium enterprises dynamic capabilities efficacy during COVID-19: moderating role of CEO gender

Muhammad Ishfaq Ahmad, Muhammad Akram Naseem, Ramiz Ur Rehman

This study aims to investigate the role of dynamic capabilities (DCs) in the financial performance of the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) during COVID-19. Furthermore, it took…

The role of a local network in achieving contextual ambidexterity in foreign subsidiaries operating in Brazil – a multi-level analysis

Eduardo Jorge Branco Vieira Barcelos, Felipe Mendes Borini, Marcos Amatucci

This study aims to examine how knowledge acquired from a network built on trust and commitment can increase the management team’s effectiveness (MTE) in implementing an…

Accelerated internationalization of SMEs and microfoundations of dynamic capabilities: towards an integrated conceptual framework

Hela Chebbi, Majdi Ben Selma, Kamal Bouzinab, Andrew Papadopoulos, Alexie Labouze, Robert Desmarteau

Striving for growth since their early stages, many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly adopting an entrepreneurial behavior based on a rapid and early…

Influential dynamic capabilities and small and medium enterprises' internationalization success: mediating role of international entrepreneurial orientation

Moza Rashed AlShehhi, Jacob Poopada Cherian, Sherine Farouk, Moza Al Nahyan

This study aims to analyze how international entrepreneurial orientation mediates the relationship between influential dynamic capabilities and the internationalization success of…

MNCs’ orchestration capability of the 3Ds and financial performance

Dina Abdelzaher, Jose De la Torre, Skylar Rolf

In today’s ever-increasing context of volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous market conditions, the shifts of countries’ protectionist policies toward inward Foreign Direct…

Environmental MCS package, perceived environmental uncertainty and green performance: in green dynamic capabilities and investment in environmental management perspectives

Stefano Bresciani, Shafique Ur Rehman, Gazi Mahabubul Alam, Khurram Ashfaq, Muhammad Usman

The organizations focus on environmental factors as stakeholders exert pressure to reduce the environmental influence arising from production tasks. This study aims to see the…

COVID-19 uncertainties, dynamic capabilities and the strategic response of multinational enterprises

Adeniyi D. Olarewaju, Oladipupo F. Ajeyalemi

This study aims to examine uncertainties created due to the pandemic that multinational enterprises (MNEs) had to confront. It also assesses MNEs’ response to these uncertainties…

Dynamic capabilities and FDI in conflict zones: the role of diversification and stock management capabilities

Dina Abdelzaher, Nora Ramadan

Despite the increased level of national conflict around the world, outward foreign direct investment (FDI) targeting these areas has increased. This study aims to adopt a dynamic…