This paper advances on the importance of the adaptation of the firm to the International Business Environment (IBE). The IBE is a distinguishing factor in international business studies and the firm?s adaptation to the environment has been presented as a basic survival strategy. We argue that...

We have witnessed a fast growth in academic interest on entrepreneurship over the past two to three decades, although at disparate paces in different countries. A wealth of papers presented and published, books, dedicated journals, websites, professional and research groups have emerged...

Este artigo visa entender o estoque de conhecimento acumulado na pesquisa em empreendedorismo. Um estudo bibliométrico dos artigos publicados entre 1987 e 2010 no Journal of Business Venturing. As análises, sobre uma amostra de 413 artigos, incide nos autores mais prolíficos, nacionalidade,...

International business (IB) research has evolved substantially over the past four decades incorporating new concerns and theoretical contributions. During the past two decades, the Resource-Based View (RBV) has gained the preference of many IB scholars and has gradually become one of the...

Culture has been a widely researched topic in the International Business (IB) literature over the last decades. To better understand what culture actually means and its implication in firms? IB operations, several cultural models and taxonomies have been put forward. In this paper we seek to...

As motivações para a internacionalização das empresas devem influenciar a selecção dos modos de entrada nos mercados externos. Neste artigo usamos a classificação de John Dunning (1993) que distingue quatro motivos - procura de mercado, de recursos, de eficiência e de recursos...

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are important modes through which firms undertake their domestic and international strategies. This bibliometric review examines the extant research on M&As in the top five strategic management journals during a ten years period ? from 2000 to 2009. The 90...

A teoria económica tem tentado compreender e explicar o comportamento das empresas nos mercados. Contudo, persistem grandes divergências acerca do papel das diferentes forças que influenciam o crescimento e os objectivos das empresas. Sintetizar os principais contributos dos autores mais...

The network approach to internationalization of the firms has warranted the research focus of many international business scholars. Firms are increasingly involved in international business endeavors and arguably need to learn to adapt to idiosyncratic milieus they encounter in the foreign...

Culture and the influence of national cultures and cultural differences have been widely studied in International Business (IB) research especially over the past three decades. To better understand what culture actually means and its implications on firms’ international operations, several...