Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to consider the development of research in
international retailing over the last 20 years and propose a future research agenda within a …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critically diagnose the current body of knowledge on
de-internationalisation from the perspective of its various antecedents and implications for …

Although international entry and expansion has been a particularly important topic in the
literature, there has been little research effort to explain firms' exit decisions from foreign …

Foreign divestment research has focused on identifying divestment drivers but has only
rarely investigated the long-term divestment behavior of companies. This study uses …

We investigate foreign market re-entry commitment strategies, namely the changes in the
modes of operation (commitment) undertaken by multinational enterprises (MNEs) as they …

We adopt a Penrosean perspective to study the effect of rapid international expansion on the
subsequent divestment of international operations. We draw on regional strategy theory and …

Foreign divestment (FD) has become an integral aspect of global strategy, yet it remains a
neglected area among the international business and business strategy academies. It is …

This article seeks to contribute to the growing economic-geographical literature on the
globalization of retailing by offering a longitudinal analysis of the operations of Samsung …

We examine how the exits of multinational companies' foreign subsidiaries from host
countries are foreshadowed by the irreversibility intrinsic to firms' entry modes and the …

Purpose The need for retailers to internationalize is a growing reality in developed markets.
Research examining problems in this process argues that the barriers to internationalization …