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P. Ghauri
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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F-L. Cooke R. Strange
Monash Business School Department of Management, 26 Sir John Monash University of Sussex Department of Business and Management, Jubilee
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P. Buckley J. Clegg E Jackson
University of Leeds Centre for International University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Rutgers University School of Management and
Business, Leeds, United Kingdom Labor Relations, Piscataway, New Jersey, United
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M. Casson
Getúlio Vargas Foundation School of Business
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Administration of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, United
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Business, Atlanta, Georgia, United States Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway

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M.T. Carneiro L. Cui M. Kafouros
Getúlio Vargas Foundation School of Business Australian National University, Canberra, Australia The University of Manchester, Manchester, United
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T. Fang
L. Chen D. Kim
The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Stockholm University School of Business,
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Australia Stockholm, Sweden
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A. Chidlow A. Giroud X. Liu
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R. Aggarwal Dr. Panos Desyllas Ruey-Jer Bryan Jean
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Ohio, United States P. Deng M. V. Jones
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D. Ahlstrom The Universtity of Melbourne Melbourne Business D. Kandemir
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University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
B. Akdeniz P. Enderwick
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Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, S. Freeman G. Knight
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University of Sussex School of Business M. Geppert, PhD
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Friedrich Schiller Universitat Jena School of States
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G. Benito Professor Lars Hakansson
BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway T. C. Lawton, PhD
Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, University College Cork National University of
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King’s College London, London, United Kingdom Ireland, Cork, Ireland
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M. Bu The University of Manchester Alliance Manchester J.Y. Lee
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N. Coviello H. Hu Australia, Australia
Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria,
Canada Australia J.P. Lemaire
ESCP Business School, Paris, France
A. R. Criado A. Jaklič, PhD
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Spain Relations, Ljubljana, Slovenia University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
M Luiz, PhD J. Pla-Barber, PhD R. Sinkovics
University of Sussex School of Business University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Management and Economics, Brighton, United E. Plakoyiannaki Dr. N. Sinkovics
Kingdom University of Vienna, Wien, Austria University of Auckland, New Zealand
S. Lundan J. Puck
University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany G. Suder
Vienna University of Economics and Business The University of Melbourne Asialink, Parkville,
S. Manning Gutmann Center for Portfolio Management, Vienna, Australia
University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom Austria
U. Mayrhofer S. Y. Tarba
M. Pudelko University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United
Graduate School of Management Nice, Nice, France University of Tubingen, Germany Kingdom
S. Michailova F. Puig, PhD
The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand H. Voss
University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
S. Munjal HEC Montréal, Canada
H. Rammal
University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom University of Technology Sydney - City Campus, C. Wang
E. Napier Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia University of Bradford, UK
The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, United C. Welch
H. Rogers
States The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South
Nuremberg Tech Faculty of Business
U.F. Ott Administration, Nürnberg, Germany Wales, Australia
Kingston University, Kingston Upon Thames, Y. Wei
A. M. Romero-Martinez
United Kingdom
Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain University of Leeds, UK
L. Oxelheim
Lund University, Lund, Sweden S. Samiee G. Wood
The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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University of South Carolina, Columbia, South T. Xia
Carolina, United States G. Santangelo, PhD University of East Anglia, UK
Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg,
B. I. Park S. Yeniyurt
Denmark
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies College of Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, New
Economics and Business Global Campus, Yongin, S. Schmid Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Korea, Republic of ESCP Business School - Berlin, Berlin, Germany C. Zhang
T. Pedersen J. Sheth University of Vermont, USA
Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States H. Zou
Denmark A. Shichun SOAS, UK
R. Piekkari University of Michigan-Flint, Flint, Michigan, A. Zucchella
Aalto University, Espoo, Finland United States University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy