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作者：Witte, Caroline T.; Burger, Martijn J.; Ianchovichina, Elena I.; Pennings, Enrico
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Tinbergen Institute; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; The World Bank
摘要：The relationship between political violence and greenfield foreign direct investment is contingent on the type of violence, the characteristics of the investment-receiving sector, and the international scope of the investing firm. Analysis using a dynamic fixed effects model for a panel of 90 developing countries shows that nationwide political conflict is negatively associated with total and nonresource-related greenfield FDI, but not with resource-related greenfield FDI. The insensitivity of...
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作者：Peng, Mike W.; Ahlstrom, David; Carraher, Shawn M.; Shi, Weilei (Stone)
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; Chinese University of Hong Kong; City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY)
摘要：Leveraging the use of history to advance international business research, this article focuses on the crucial debate over intellectual property rights (IPR) between the United States and China. Ironically, during the 19th century the United States was not a leading IPR advocate as it is today, but was a leading IPR violator. Developing an institution-based view of IPR history, we identify three underlying theoretical mechanisms that help to explain IPR in the two countries - path dependence, l...
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作者：Wu, Zheying; Salomon, Robert
作者单位：Fudan University; New York University
摘要：It is widely acknowledged that foreign firms are at an institutional disadvantage relative to domestic firms operating in the local market. This liability of foreignness'' typically manifests as inferior performance for foreign firms relative to domestic competitors. Although myriad studies document the liability of foreignness, few demonstrate how individual host country institutions generate specific liabilities. In this study, we explore the regulatory liabilities that foreign firms face us...
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作者：Brander, James A.; Cui, Victor; Vertinsky, Ilan
作者单位：University of British Columbia; University of Manitoba
摘要：China is not meeting its international obligations to protect intellectual property rights (IPRs), harming the innovation process in China and elsewhere. We review the benefits of IPR protection and discuss the magnitude and cost of China's IPR violations. We also emphasize that these violations undermine the international rule of law and impair China's legitimacy as a leader in evolving global governance institutions. We criticize the argument that China will endogenously improve IPR protecti...
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作者：Ivus, Olena; Park, Walter G.; Saggi, Kamal
作者单位：Queens University - Canada; American University; Vanderbilt University
摘要：This article examines how patent protection in developing countries affects the technology licensing strategy of US multinational firms and the associated technology transfer flows. Strengthening patent rights lowers appropriability hazards and so reduces the firms' reliance on affiliated licensing as the more secure means of transfer (the internalization effect). However lower appropriability hazards also encourage the firms to increase the volume of technology transfer via licensing both wit...
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作者：Berry, Heather
作者单位：George Washington University
摘要：Although knowledge assets provide multinational corporations (MNCs) with competitive advantages in foreign markets, it can be difficult for firms to protect their knowledge in foreign countries - especially countries with weak intellectual property (IP) protection. Building on and extending the knowledge management, institutional theory and expatriate literatures, this article explores whether home country expatriates can substitute for weak IP protection and drive an increase in more and more...
