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This paper investigates how important sources of heterogeneity shape the way in which family firms (FFs) enter foreign markets. By integrating insights from International Business and Family Business literature, we claim that the interplay between the generation ruling the firm and the presence of non-family board members direct the choice between a greenfield investment vs. the acquisition of a local unit.

This chapter sheds light on how the internationalization of state-owned enterprises
(SOEs) is jointly influenced by the ownership involvement of the state and
other relational investors and by the home country’s institutional setting. It
integrates international business literature and insights from the theory of
corporate governance into a varieties of capitalism framework. Taking a configurational
perspective, the interdependencies that link the SOE internationalization
to the joint effects of particular combinations of actors and institutions

L’internazionalizzazione è un obiettivo strategico per le università. In questo lavoro vengono esaminati i percorsi di transizione al lavoro dei laureati stranieri della Sapienza. Si tratta di

Commenting on the book : Fulvia Furinghetti, Alexander Karp (Eds.) (2018), Researching the history of Mathematics education. An international overview, the paper describes contents and methods of the research field on the history of mathematics education.

This article sheds light on how the internationalization of state-owned
enterprises is influenced by the state involvement in ownership and by the
home country’s institutional settings. Integrating international business
literature with the debate on the varieties of capitalism, we contend that
state-dominated enterprises internationalize more (less) than privately owned
enterprises in coordinated (liberal) market economies, whereas they exhibit an
inconstant behavior in state-influenced market economies. Our analysis on a

Research Summary: We investigate when and how a foreign multinational enterprise by acting as a relational co-owner helps the internationalization of hybrid state-owned enterprises. We merge the “liability of stateness” and the “government as strategist” perspectives with an institutional context-based approach. We claim that the effect of multinational enterprise relational co-ownership is contingent on the countries' institutional settings. It is positive at lower levels of both institutional coordination (as a measure of variety of capitalism) and government effectiveness.

This paper explores the main drivers of firms’ external competitiveness in times of crisis. We focus on the aftermath of the Great Recession (2008–2015) and present evidence based on a comprehensive survey of Italian companies (the MET dataset). Overall, our results highlight not only the strict correlation between internationalization and innovative activities but also a positive change of attitude of Italian firms towards these strategies.