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作者：Minbaeva, Dana; Narula, Rajneesh; Phene, Anupama; Fitzsimmons, Stacey
作者单位：University of London; King's College London; Copenhagen Business School; University of Reading; George Washington University; University of Victoria; University of Pretoria
摘要：The global mobility of people has transformed how multinational enterprises (MNEs) manage and benefit from multiple locations. We examine the changing locational boundedness of human capital with globalization and how this has impacted the competitiveness of MNEs. The growing use of quasi-internalization through the active reliance on global value chains and outsourcing has altered the way MNEs spatially organize their activities to optimize their access to human capital, a key source of owner...
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作者：Zabetta, Massimiliano Coda; Miguelez, Ernest; Lissoni, Francesco; Hegarty, Sarah
作者单位：University of Turin; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC); CSIC - Instituto de Politicas y Bienes Publicos (IPP); Universite de Bordeaux; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); University of Barcelona; Catholic University of the Sacred Heart; Swinburne University of Technology
摘要：Building upon the upper echelons theory of organizations as applied to internationalization strategies, we investigate the impact of foreign-origin top management team (TMT) members on their companies' location choice. We propose that a manager-from-target effect may exist, by which a manager's knowledge of their country of origin increases the likelihood of choosing that country as a target. We expect it to be stronger for acquisitions than for greenfield investments, the inputs of foreign-or...
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作者：Belderbos, Rene; Leten, Bart; Nguyen, Ngoc Han; Vancauteren, Mark
作者单位：KU Leuven; Maastricht University; Maastricht University; Hasselt University; University of Groningen; Ho Chi Minh City University Economics
摘要：Multinational firms can access global talent in two ways: by employing migrants in their home country, or by employing foreign workers in their overseas affiliates. Taking a knowledge-based perspective, we conceptualize these employment decisions as simultaneous and subject to management coordination. Substitution effects are greater when there is a larger wage cost differential between home and host countries, leading to a cost-reduction motivation for foreign expansion and the offshoring of ...
