Do managers behave the way theory suggests? A choice-theoretic examination of foreign direct investment location decision-making

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The role of path dependency and managerial intentionality: a perspective on international business research (2007, background): “This is true for the paper by Buckley et al. (2007), which looks at deliberate rational decisions vs more iterative and experience-based decisions, both papers by Barkema and Drogendijk (2007) and by Goerzen and Makino (2007), which contrast a slow, low-risk entry strategy with faster, more…”
Location and the multinational enterprise: John Dunning's thoughts on receiving the Journal of International Business Studies 2008 Decade Award (2009, background): “Some of these have been summarised or referred to in Buckley and Ghauri (2004), Buckley, Devinney, and Louviere (2007), Flores and Aguilera (2007), and Chapman, Gajewska-De Mattos, Clegg, and Buckley (2008).”
Foreign Location Choice: Review and Extensions (2016, neutral): “These differences explain the distinctiveness of each tradition in terms of the assumptions, unit of analysis and concepts applied in explaining foreign-location choices (for more details, see Benito and Gripsrud 1992; Buckley et al. 2007b).”
The Governance of the Multinational Enterprise: Insights from Internalization Theory (2011, background): “Jensen and Meckling (1976, pp. 328–30) suggest that the magnitude of these agency costs depend inter alia on the inherent complexity and geographic dispersion of the firms’ activities, and are thus likely to be more substantial in MNEs.”