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作者：Hutzschenreuter, Thomas; Matt, Tanja
作者单位：Technical University of Munich
摘要：Learning and knowledge are crucial to the internationalization process of the firm. Johanson and Vahlne (1977, 2009) put gaining experience, i.e., learning and accumulating knowledge at the heart of their internationalization model. We posit that the IB field has perhaps moved too fast from conceptual work to quantitative empirical studies, not devoting sufficient attention to the idea of experiential learning, either conceptually or empirically. We look at the most cited internationalization ...
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作者：Buckley, Peter J.; Doh, Jonathan P.; Benischke, Mirko H.
作者单位：University of Leeds; Villanova University; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：In this article, we review critiques of international business (IB) research with a focus on whether IB scholarship tackles big questions.'' We identify three major areas where IB scholars have addressed important global phenomena, but find that they have had little influence outside of IB, and only limited effects on business or government policy. We propose a redirection of IB research towards grand challenges'' in global business and the use of interdisciplinary research methods, multilevel...
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作者：Verbeke, Alain; Calma, Angelito
作者单位：University of Calgary; Vrije Universiteit Brussel; University of Reading; University of Melbourne
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作者：Coviello, Nicole; Kano, Liena; Liesch, Peter W.
作者单位：Wilfrid Laurier University; University of Calgary; University of Queensland
摘要：Vahlne and Johanson (2017) present the multinational business enterprise(MBE) as a new form of cross-border organization that supersedes the multinational enterprise (MNE). They offer a 'generalmodel of the evolution of the MBE,' arguing that the MBE evolves through ongoing internationalization processes by proactively and entrepreneurially engaging in business exchange rather than production. In this counterpoint, we focus on two critical dimensions absent from Vahlne and Johanson's (2017) ar...
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作者：Hakanson, Lars; Kappen, Philip
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Uppsala University
摘要：Forty years after the publication of the original Uppsala Model, we revisit the empirical observations that inspired its conceptual development. The empirical evidence, we suggest, invites the formulation of an alternative and complementary model of the internationalization process of the firm, one that we have named the 'Casino Model' of internationalization. The Casino Model uncovers a number of new research issues pertaining to internationalization and to the nature of strategic decision-ma...
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作者：Santangelo, Grazia D.; Meyer, Klaus E.
作者单位：University of Catania; Western University (University of Western Ontario); China Europe International Business School
摘要：The Johanson and Vahlne model of internationalization has been the main foundation of process research in international business since 1977. This model, also known as the Uppsala model, provides a useful general framework for interpreting firm-level processes increasing (and occasionally decreasing) resources committed to international operations. However, the model does not provide theoretical explanations of non-linear and discontinuous dynamics of the process over time, nor does it offer te...
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作者：Farndale, Elaine; Brewster, Chris; Ligthart, Paul; Poutsma, Erik
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Tilburg University; Radboud University Nijmegen; University of Reading
摘要：This study explores patterns of human resource management (HRM) practices across market economies, and between indigenous firms and foreign MNE subsidiary operations, offering a novel perspective on convergence and divergence. Applying institutional theorizing to improve our understanding of convergence/divergence as a process and an outcome, data collected from nine countries at three points in time over a decade confirm that convergence and divergence occur to different extents in a nonlinea...
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作者：Vahlne, Jan-Erik; Johanson, Jan
作者单位：University of Gothenburg; Uppsala University
摘要：The original Uppsala model that was published in 1977 explains the internationalization process of firms. We have further developed the model several times in the intervening years. The present article is our latest effort: a general model of the evolution of the multinational business enterprise ( MBE), from early steps abroad to being a global firm. The updated, augmented model explains MBE evolution in general, not only characteristics of the internationalization process in a narrow sense. ...
