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作者：Iurkov, Viacheslav; Benito, Gabriel R. G.
作者单位：BI Norwegian Business School; BI Norwegian Business School
摘要：We draw on a social network perspective to explain multinational enterprises' (MNEs) propensity to distribute their operations unevenly across various regions of the world. We focus on how the positioning of MNEs in their domestic network of strategic alliances affects their geographic scope, i.e., whether they concentrate on their home region or expand beyond it. We theorize that embeddedness in alliance networks constitutes a double-edged sword to the geographic scope of MNEs. Strong embedde...
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作者：Li, Pengfei; Bathelt, Harald
作者单位：Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; University of Toronto; University of Toronto
摘要：This article investigates the location strategies of Canadian and Chinese multisite firms in international and domestic investment decisions at the metropolitan level. By integrating research from international business studies and economic geography, we combine knowledge-based understandings of multinational corporations and industrial clusters to develop propositions regarding the location strategies of multisite firms in cluster networks. It is argued that firms from clusters are more likel...
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作者：Deng, Ziliang; Jean, Ruey-Jer Bryan; Sinkovics, Rudolf R.
作者单位：Renmin University of China; National Chengchi University; University of Manchester; Alliance Manchester Business School; Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：Rapid export expansion into institutionally distant locations has become more possible in the era of digital economy. Will such rapid expansion bring desirable outcome to firms? In a context of international new ventures (INVs) from emerging markets, we reconceptualize export expansion speed as the pace of exporting across institutional distance over a certain period of time. We then examine the relationship between rapid export expansion across institutional distance and overall firm performa...
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作者：Gao, Gerald Yong; Wang, Danny Tan; Che, Yi
作者单位：University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Saint Louis; Hong Kong Baptist University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
摘要：Historical relations between countries bring important explanatory power for foreign direct investment (FDI) decisions, yet little is known on whether a home-host country relation exhibits heterogeneous effects on FDI across the country's subnational regions. In this study, we examine the long-term impact of historical conflict on FDI location choices and performance. Using a sample of 8,646 Japanese FDI in China, we show that civilian casualties in different provinces of China during the Seco...
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作者：Scalera, Vittoria G.; Perri, Alessandra; Hannigan, T. J.
作者单位：University of Amsterdam; Universita Ca Foscari Venezia
摘要：We explore how knowledge-based connections to domestic and foreign locations affect the technological scope of firm innovations. Inspired by a blend of Economic Geography and International Business perspectives, we propose a theoretical framework that distinguishes between domestic subnational differences and cross-national spatial heterogeneity. Further, we combine the Penrosean view of managerial capabilities with the attention-based theory of the firm. Analyzing a sample of US-based firms b...
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作者：Stallkamp, Maximilian; Pinkham, Brian C.; Schotter, Andreas P. J.; Buchel, Olha
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：We show how the initial subnational entry location of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) in China influences their subsequent within-country location choices and expansion speed. We distinguish between MNEs that establish their first subsidiary in co-ethnic cores - dense agglomerations of other firms from the same country of origin - and MNEs that locate their first subsidiary in the periphery, i.e., outside of these co-ethnic cores. To identify co-ethnic cores in China, we employ a geo-...
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作者：Mudambi, Ram; Li, Lee; Ma, Xufei; Makino, Shige; Qian, Gongming; Boschma, Ron
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; York University - Canada; Chinese University of Hong Kong; Chinese University of Hong Kong; Utrecht University
摘要：IB scholars have long studied the multinational enterprise (MNE) and now recognize that its ability to capture value stems from its control of bottleneck assets. In contrast, economic geographers and regional scientists have largely focused their attention on the locations within which economic and business systems operate. In this article, we draw on both these literatures. We emphasize that the MNE's integration of upstream and downstream strategic considerations to maximize its control of b...
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作者：Peterson, Mark F.; Sondergaard, Mikael; Kara, Aycan
作者单位：Maastricht University; Aarhus University; Aarhus University; Indiana University System; Indiana University Southeast
摘要：International business (IB) scholars continue to struggle to theorize the relationship between country and cultural group boundaries. To progress, we first consider functional, institutional, and critical event explanations for cultural characteristics and boundaries. Second, we contrast theories of explicit global structure based on countries with theories based on implicit cultural groups. Third, we consider the implications of explicit country-based and implicit culture group-based theorizi...
