1- Microfoundations of family governance and internationalization: How do individual-level features of family and nonfamily members of family firms (e.g., individual values, biases, cognitive make-ups, risk preferences) affect these firms’ international trajectories?
2- The role of family in family firm internationalization: How do different types of family structures, relationships, and dynamics impact international choices of family firms? What is the role of family identity in family firms’ international strategies?
3- Determinants of successful family firm internationalization: What is a definition of success when it comes to international strategy of family firms? Does a paradox exist between what family firms prefer to do internationally, and what they do best?
4- The role of external context in shaping family firm internationalization: How do different cultural and institutional settings influence internationalization processes and outcomes in family and non-family firms or across different types of family firms?
5- How do institutional practices (formal and informal) interplay with culture to affect the development of corporate sustainability practices?
6- How do developed economies of multinational companies transfer corporate sustainability practices across borders? What strategies do they use? What is the role of culture and leadership in this transfer? Does corporate sustainability performance vary from one country to another? Does the reverse transfer of corporate sustainability practices exist?
7- The influence of technology in business growth in international entrepreneurship.
8- How do dynamics between different levels of government in home countries, e.g. central vs regional, affect EMNE (Emerging Market Multinational) internationalization?
9- The evolution of interorganizational partnerships into new forms, structures, and constellations that can accommodate major headwinds and disruptions in foreign markets.
10- Organization of the R&D function: R&D team composition, compensation, talent acquisition, development, as well as global and semi-global R&D configurations.
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