Investigating governance of tolerable and intolerable dark sides in B2B dyads in post pandemic emerging markets

The post-pandemic disruption of the global supply chain has caused severe stresses and conflicts in business-to-business dyadic relationships. Furthermore, intentions to dissolve extant relationships, motivated by opportunism, or actual terminations have aggravated the situation. Drawing on the dark side literature, we investigate the precise nature of the stress-inducing antecedents, the types of manifested conflicts and their outcomes on B2B dyadic exchanges. Using a proprietary survey data set of 487 dyadic conflicts collected from conciliation-arbitration cum legal experts in an emerging market, we provide insights into how tolerable and intolerable dark sides adversely affect short-term transactional and long-term relational B2B dyads, respectively. More importantly, we provide deep insights into specific and critical governance mechanisms invoked to attenuate/accentuate the respective dark side effects on B2B dyads. We contribute by providing an end-to-end spectrum of dark sides and their governance mechanism in B2B dyadic exchanges

The Institutional Influence on the Location Strategies of Multinational Enterprises from Emerging Economies: Evidence from China’s Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions

This study investigates the institutional influence on the location strategies of Chinese cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) during the period 1985–2011 across 150 economies using Heckman’s two-stage model. The results suggest that Chinese MNEs are ‘shortsighted’ and show perverse behaviour towards host country risk when deciding on the location of host country and volume of investment undertaken through M&As, which may damage the firm’s long term profitability

Enhancing Intra-Commonwealth Trade and Investment::An International Business Research Agenda

International business (IB), whether cross-border activities by multinational enterprises (MNEs) or non-equity forms of investment, and the international environment it operates in are heavily influenced by the historical legacies of countries and their international relations

A perspective on multinational enterprise’s national identity dilemma

This conceptual paper identifies gaps and contributes to the literature on ‘identity’ dilemmas faced by multinational enterprises operating in a globalised world. Various characteristics and business strategies of multinational enterprises are delineated and analysed through the lens of social identity theory and international business concepts such as market and institutional logic. Our analysis, based on multiple cases, and derived from a variety of industries and countries, associates the identity dilemma to informed business strategy. Our findings suggest that while multinational enterprises face identity dilemmas that they sometimes use to their advantage, it also poses several challenges. Through our conceptualisation, we derive five distinct propositions to shape future research directions

A perspective on multinational enterprise\u27s national identity dilemma

This conceptual paper identifies gaps and contributes to the literature on \u27identity\u27 dilemmas faced by multinational enterprises operating in a globalised world. Various characteristics and business strategies of multinational enterprises are delineated and analysed through the lens of social identity theory and international business concepts such as market and institutional logic. Our analysis, based on multiple cases, and derived from a variety of industries and countries, associates the identity dilemma to informed business strategy. Our findings suggest that while multinational enterprises face identity dilemmas that they sometimes use to their advantage, it also poses several challenges. Through our conceptualisation, we derive five distinct propositions to shape future research directions