Greetings, colleagues-

I am pleased to share with you the Table of Contents for MOR Volume 12, Issue 3. This issue features a vigorous exchange on the importance of the institutional explanation of Chinese outward investments as initially discussed in the paper by Peter Buckley, Pei Yu, Qing Liu, Surrender Munjal, and Pan Tai. The issue also includes a paper by Yunzhou Du, Phillip H. Kim and Howard Aldrich on new venture performance in transition economies. The issue also features the first Letter to the Editor by Steven Shinjin Zhou and Abby Jingzi Zhou. The letter relates the legend of Dragon and the Phoenix [fenghuang 凤凰] as possibly the indigenous antecedent of the Composition Based View management practice described in Luo and Child (2015, Management and Organization Review, 11(3): 379-411).

 

We are also excited to share with you the newly redesigned MOR-Cambridge University Website with improved search functions, the latest in MOR news, and links to MOR social media updates.

 

We hope you enjoy reading this issue’s interesting and important articles, and will share the articles with your colleagues doing research in similar areas!

 

With best wishes,

 

Arie Y. Lewin

Editor-in-Chief

Management and Organization Review

 

Letter from the Editor

Arie Y. Lewin

 

Peter J. Buckley, Pei Yu, Qing Liu, Surender Munjal, and Pan Tai

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

 

Commentaries on Buckley, Yu, Liu, Munjal, and Tai

 

Jiatao Li and Guoguang Wan

China’s Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions: A Contextual Distance Perspective

 

Lin Cui

The Primacy of Institutional Explanation of Chinese Outward FDI: Is It Understated or Overstated?

 

Regular Articles

 

Yunzhou Du, Phillip H. Kim, and Howard E. Aldrich

Hybrid Strategies, Dysfunctional Competition, and New Venture Performance in Transition Economies

 

Sybille Persson and Paul Shrivastava

Sustainable Development of Human Resources Inspired by Chinese Philosophies: A Repositioning Based on François Jullien’s Works

 

Sven Horak and Katja Restel

A Dynamic Typology or Informal Institutions: Learning from the Case of Guanxi

 

Aurelia Mok and David De Cremer

When Money Makes Employees Warm and Bright: Thoughts of New Money Promote Warmth and Competence

 

Weiwen Li, Eric W.K. Tsang, Danglun Luo, and Qianwei Ying

It’s Not Just a Visit: Receiving Government Officials’ Visits and Firm Performance in China

 

Yi han and Enying Zheng

Why Firms Perform Differently in Corporate Social Responsibility? Firm Ownership and the Persistence of Organizational Imprints

 

Dialogue, Debate, and Discussion

Elisa Giuliani, Grazia D. Santangelo, and Floria Wettstein

Human Rights and International Business Research: A Call for Study Emerging Market Multinationals

 

Letter to the Editor

Steven Shijin Zhou and Abby Jingzi Zhou