Dear friends and colleagues, 

 

We are delighted to announce the publication of the October 2022 issue (volume 31, issue 5) of International Business Review. 

 

The lead paper – the second in our occasional series of Perspectives - is authored by Eleanor Westney, Rebecca Piekkari, Kaisa Koskinen & Susanne Tietze on the subject of “Crossing borders and boundaries: translation ecosystems in international business.” The authors argue persuasively that IB scholarship would benefit from moving beyond a focus on national boundaries to look also at organizational, knowledge domain and linguistic boundaries, and to consider how movement across boundaries changes what is being moved.  

 

This Perspective is followed by two papers on the use of historical social network analysis and on the transfer of corporate governance practices into emerging economies. Next we have eight papers offering various perspectives on market entry, branding, and country images. Then there are two papers on international entrepreneurship: one on second-generation immigrant entrepreneurs and the other on entrepreneurial SMEs in the Muslim world. Finally there are two papers on GVC linkages and on backshoring initiatives in the United States. 

 

This is another fine collection of papers offering perceptive insights on a range of important contemporary topics. We hope you enjoy reading them. 

 

Please also note the submission deadlines [https://www.journals.elsevier.com/international-business-review/call-for-papers] for papers for the forthcoming IBR Special Issues on “Dynamic capabilities and international entrepreneurship” (31 January 2023) and on “International entrepreneurship and the contemporary global firm” (1 July 2023). 

 

Best wishes 

Roger Strange & Fang Lee Cooke (IBR Editors-in-Chief) 

 

 

International Business Review 

Volume 31, Issue 5, October 2022 

 

Perspective 

Crossing borders and boundaries: Translation ecosystems in international business 

D. Eleanor Westney, Rebecca Piekkari, Kaisa Koskinen, Susanne Tietze 

Article 102030 

 

Regular Articles 

Historical social network analysis: Advancing new directions for international business research 

Emily Buchnea, Ziad Elsahn 

Article 101990 

 

Transfer of corporate governance practices into weak emerging market environments by foreign institutional investors 

Geofry Areneke, Emmanuel Adegbite, Abongeh Tunyi 

 

Business group affiliation and SMEs’ international sales intensity and diversification: A multi-country study 

Jonas Eduardsen, Svetla Trifonova Marinova, Miguel González-Loureiro, Božidar Vlačić 

 

CEO gender, institutional context and firm exports 

David B. Audretsch, Maksim Belitski, Farzana Chowdhury, Sameeksha Desai 

Article 102008 

 

Market entry into new export markets: When are firms more likely to imitate their competitors’ market presence? 

Dirk Michael Boehe, Manuel Becerra 

Article 102012 

 

Back-end information technology resources and manufacturing SMEs’ export commitment: An empirical investigation 

Sylvestre Uwizeyemungu, Placide Poba-Nzaou, Josée St-Pierre 

Article 102005 

 

Employing brand governance mechanisms with export channel partners: What are the performance consequences and contingent effects? 

Keith Pyper, Anne Marie Doherty 

Article 101991 

 

Reflective versus unreflective country images: How ruminating on reasons for buying a country’s products alters country image 

George Balabanis, Carmen Lopez 

Article 102024 

 

The asymmetric dominance of cognitive versus affective country image in driving purchase: Conditioning roles of cognition-affect intra-valence nature and product type 

Lin Ma, Zening Song, Xuemei Bian 

Article 102007 

 

Foreign company misconduct and how consumers’ punitive intent is influenced by country stereotypes and the perceived similarity between the foreign country and the home country 

Camilla Barbarossa, Cristian Buzeta, Patrick De Pelsmacker, Ingrid Moons 

Article 101995 

 

Staying in or stepping out? Growth strategies of second-generation immigrant entrepreneurs 

Sarika Pruthi, Misagh Tasavori 

Article 101997 

 

International entrepreneurial SMEs in the muslim world: The role of religion in the GCC countries 

Heba Younis, Pavlos Dimitratos, Said Elbanna 

Article 102023 

 

Global value chain linkages: An integrative review of the opportunities and challenges for SMEs in developing countries 

Mesumbe Bianca Epede, Daoping Wang 

Article 101993 

 

A taxonomy of back-shoring initiatives in the US 

Carmela Di Mauro, Alessandro Ancarani 

Article 102006