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作者：Buckley, Peter J.; Munjal, Surender; Requejo, Ignacio
作者单位：University of Leeds; University of Leeds; University of Salamanca; University of Salamanca
摘要：The extant literature on offshore outsourcing has focused on large traditional multinational enterprises from the OECD countries, and on their decisions to relocate production- and operations-related activities outside their home country in order to enhance their performance. By contrast, we examine the strategy of firms from emerging economies outsourcing knowledge-intensive activities abroad to improve their competitiveness. Using panel data of 1655 Indian firms over a 13-year period, we fin...
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作者：Lee, Jong Min
作者单位：University of Reading
摘要：Multinational corporations (MNCs) are considered as dispersed structures of power, in which diverse headquarters (HQ)-subsidiary power relationships collectively influence performance and management. Yet, few studies have accounted for the subsidiary portfolio characteristics shaped by the entire set of differentiated HQ-subsidiary power relationships, and little is known about their effect on the performance and management decisions of MNCs. Drawing on agency and resource dependence theories,...
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作者：Yao, Fiona Kun; Jiang, Kaifeng; Combs, Danielle R.; Chang, Song
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; State University System of Florida; Florida International University; Hong Kong Baptist University
摘要：The informal institutions construct has not been well understood in prior research. We contribute to the informal institutions literature by developing a generalized two-by-two conceptualization of institutions that juxtapose the dimension of behavioral uncertainty versus environmental uncertainty and the dimension of informal institutions versus formal institutions. In particular, we theorize informal institutions based on the extent to which they reduce behavioral uncertainty or environmenta...
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作者：Grogaard, Birgitte; Sartor, Michael A.; Rademaker, Linda
作者单位：BI Norwegian Business School; Queens University - Canada
摘要：Scholarly efforts to propose future directions for international business (IB) research have generated a timely and extensive inventory of potentially interesting areas of research. We supplement this line of inquiry by suggesting that an additional layer of scrutiny could be beneficial when advocating in favor of giving more attention to particular research realms. Specifically, we advance several guiding principles that will help IB scholars assess which research areas merit greater scholarl...
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作者：Carney, Richard W.; El Ghoul, Sadok; Guedhami, Omrane; Lu, Jane W.; Wang, He
作者单位：China Europe International Business School; University of Alberta; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; City University of Hong Kong; West Virginia University
摘要：With an emphasis on deliberative processes that occur between managers and stakeholders, the political corporate social responsibility (PCSR) literature has made important advances to our understanding of CSR activities. However, these contributions have tended to focus exclusively on organizational settings. We contend that an understanding of firm-level CSR is incomplete without considering the interrelations between organizations and the wider socio-political environment. Building on work i...
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作者：Prashantham, Shameen; Birkinshaw, Julian
作者单位：China Europe International Business School; University of London; London Business School
摘要：A contemporary challenge for the international business (IB) field is to maintain a link between the global activity of firms and the local concerns of regions and communities. In this essay, we reflect on how the IB scholarship of the late Stephen Young, which was embedded in (but not confined to) Scotland, offers valuable insight into how this might be done. With an overarching interest in the role of IB in economic development, the common thread in his work on multinational enterprise (MNE)...
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作者：Liao, Guanmin; Ma, Mark (Shuai); Yu, Xiaoyun
作者单位：Renmin University of China; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
摘要：Using hand-collected data and exploiting a natural experiment in China, we show that directors with foreign experience improve corporate transparency in emerging markets. The positive effect of these directors manifests itself if their experience originates from countries with high disclosure quality, if they reach a critical mass at the board, or if they serve on the audit committee. When exploring potential channels, we find that earnings transparency and voluntary disclosure increase after ...
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作者：Luo, Yadong
作者单位：University of Miami; Sun Yat Sen University
摘要：Digital global connectivity offers multinational enterprises new opportunities, but it also brings unique risks, an area not yet well examined in international business. This article presents an organizational information-processing framework, which elucidates what (risk types and sources), how (risk assessing and managing), and whom (vulnerable firms) these risks relate to, in a dialectical manner that seeks to combine theoretical insights and managerial actions. We focus on three types of ri...
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作者：Buckley, Peter J.
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作者：Caprar, Dan, V; Kim, Sunghoon; Walker, Benjamin W.; Caligiuri, Paula
作者单位：University of Sydney; University of Sydney; Victoria University Wellington; Northeastern University
摘要：There has long been a dominant logic in the international business literature that multinational corporations should adapt business practices to fit host cultures. Business practices that are congruent with local cultural norms have been advocated as effective and desirable, while practices that are incongruent have been deemed problematic. We examine and challenge this persistent assumption by reviewing the literature showing evidence for both benefits and acceptance of countercultural practi...
