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作者：Genin, Aurora Liu; Tan, Justin; Song, Juan
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst; York University - Canada; Central South University
摘要：How does government coordination in the strategic sectors affect the impact of relational resources on firm intellectual property (IP) development in the emerging economies? We investigate this question in the Chinese high-speed train sector from 1993 to 2014. Contrary to prior findings that international joint ventures (IJVs) lead technological innovation in the emerging economies, IJVs underperform in IP development in this context, whereas government-affiliated domestic firms outperform. We...
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作者：Li, Daitian; Tong, Tony W.; Xiao, Yangao; Zhang, Feida
作者单位：University of Electronic Science & Technology of China; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; University of Queensland
摘要：How terrorism affects firms' investment decisions is gaining increasing attention globally and represents a frontier topic in international business. Although extant research has shown that terrorism can reduce aggregate investment levels, little attention has been paid to the impact of terrorism on firms' R&D in a global context. Drawing on real options theory, we argue that terrorism will lead firms to reduce their R&D investment because terrorism-induced uncertainty increases the value of t...
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作者：Reuber, A. Rebecca; Alkhaled, Sophie; Barnard, Helena; Couper, Carole; Sasaki, Innan
作者单位：University of Toronto; Lancaster University; University of Pretoria; University of Birmingham; University of Warwick
摘要：This article responds to calls for IB researchers to study a greater diversity of international business (IB) phenomena in order to generate theoretical insights about empirical settings that are under-represented in the scholarly IB literature. While this objective is consistent with the strengths of qualitative research methods, novel empirical settings are not always well aligned with methods that have been developed in better-researched and thus more familiar settings. In this article, we ...
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作者：Hartmann, Simon; Lindner, Thomas; Muellner, Jakob; Puck, Jonas
作者单位：Vienna University of Economics & Business; University of Innsbruck
摘要：In this paper, we broaden the conceptualization of institutions beyond the nation-state and develop the concept of an institutional triality that represents two national institutional environments and the supranational level. While much of international business (IB) research has focused on national institutions and the differences between them, little attention and theorizing has been dedicated to the supranational institutions that form an integral part of the global institutional ecosystem....
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作者：Grecu, Alina; Sofka, Wolfgang; Larsen, Marcus M.; Pedersen, Torben
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; University of Liverpool; BI Norwegian Business School; Bocconi University
摘要：We explore how companies with a history of offshoring attract their future employees. We reason that offshoring decisions send unintended signals about job insecurity to companies' onshore labor markets. This signaling effect implies that offshoring companies must pay higher salaries for new hires than non-offshoring companies. We tested our predictions on a sample of 7971 matched managers and professionals recently hired by offshoring and non-offshoring companies. Our results indicate a 3-7% ...
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作者：Andrews, Tim G.; Nimanandh, Khongphu; Htun, Khin Thi; Santidhirakul, Orapin
作者单位：Chiang Mai University
摘要：Superstition is a pervasive informal institution affecting the decision-making of organizational actors yet remains under-studied and ill-understood in international business research. We address this lacuna through examining how Western MNCs affect - and are affected by - the use of superstition among local subsidiary managers in an emerging Asian economy. Based on interviews, archival documents, and observation, our inductive investigation reveals a complex, changing, and surreptitious relat...
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作者：Shenkar, Oded; Tallman, Stephen B.; Wang, Hao; Wu, Jie
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of Richmond; University of Amsterdam; University of Macau
摘要：The anniversary of Kogut and Singh's construct of cultural distance is a good time to reflect on this immensely popular but flawed construct, assess the efficacy of the remedies offered for its reform and refinement, and chart an alternative approach that represents a departure from distance as the dominant paradigm with which to view and analyze the impact of national culture on cross-border business. The proposed alternative, a contact-based framework shifts attention from what sets cultures...
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作者：Calabro, Andrea; Chrisman, James J.; Kano, Liena
作者单位：IPAG Business School; Mississippi State University; University of Calgary
摘要：Contractor (J Int Bus Stud, 2022 ) argues that the COVID-19 pandemic has only accelerated changes in the world economy that had already started, and that the fundamental rationale for globalization remains. Although we agree with much of Contractor's analysis and conclusions, we argue that in the case of large family-owned multinational enterprises (MNEs), international behavior after the pandemic is likely to be varied, reflecting the strategic persistence and the heterogeneity of the goals, ...
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作者：Reuber, A. Rebecca; Fischer, Eileen
作者单位：University of Toronto; York University - Canada
摘要：The Welch et al. (J Int Bus Stud 42(5):740-762, 2011) JIBS Decade Award-winning article highlights the importance of the contextualization of international business research that is based on qualitative research methods. In this commentary, we build on their foundation and develop further the role of contextualization, in terms of the international business phenomena under study, contemporaneous conversations about qualitative research methods, and the situatedness of individual papers within ...
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作者：Zhang, Xiao; Xie, Luqun; Li, Jiatao; Cheng, Li
作者单位：Nanjing University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：We conceptualize the dynamic capabilities of multinational enterprises (MNEs) as learning and adaptation capabilities that address the pressure of global integration and local responsiveness. Complementing the extant literature on dynamic capabilities, which is focused on the supply side, our study draws attention to the demand-side influences, especially in terms of global demand heterogeneity. We propose that global demand heterogeneity provides pressures and opportunities for MNEs to learn ...
