In this article, we focus on tackling a relative research gap: how country distance (institutional, cultural, economic, and geographical distance) determines the entry mode choice between wholly-owned enterprises (WOEs) joint venture (JVEs) in context of “going global”. Based sample 439 multinational (MNEs) from 22 different nations that directly invested agricultural sector Vietnam period 1996...

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The present edition of the British Journal of Cancer contains an article by Stanton et al. on the prognostic significance of DNA ploidy and S-phase analysis in breast cancer. Insofar as hardly a week goes by without a similar manuscript appearing for review, the decision to publish this paper could be questioned, especially as it reports largely negative findings. In this Editorial I would like...

inTrOduCTiOn If you go out to a restaurant, this is outsourcing; somebody else spent the time and energy to provide the meal to you. If you call a company for a loan and get connected to an operator in a call center owned by another company and located in another country, then this is a case of both outsourcing and offshoring. Outsourcing, especially offshoring, of professional services is rece...