My research program emphasizes three complementary sets of issues relating to cross-market integration, subsidiaries' stakeholder responsiveness, and the impacts of FDI in augmenting innovative/entrepreneurship and competitive capabilities in emerging/developing countries.

1) Cross-market integration in international management, where I use internationalization theory of MNEs from the field of strategy and organizational theory to derive new insights in international competitive strategies in an uncertain political environments in subsidiaries.

(2) Sustainable development, where I use stakeholder theory to investigate the nature of cross-sector social collaboration, capacity-building (along with subsidiary human resources/employees), learning organizational and cognitive imprinting effects in international management, and their implication for MNEs' performance in subsidiaries.

(3) Capability augmentation of developing/ emerging market firms, where I use the political economy and institutional/neo-institutional theories of outward FDI to study how FDI spillovers, institutional quality, and political strategies affect firm capabilities and performance.