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作者：Rezk, Rasha; Srai, Jagjit Singh; Williamson, Peter J.
作者单位：University of Cambridge; University of Cambridge; University of Cambridge
摘要：International business literature has largely explained the international dispersion of firms' activities as a choice based on trade-offs between cost minimisation, knowledge seeking, managing transaction costs and maintaining control. By incorporating insights from operations management, we propose a framework that explicitly takes into account products' physical and knowledge attributes that constrain the viable international configuration options available to firms. Linking the characterist...
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作者：Geary, John; Aguzzoli, Roberta
作者单位：University College Dublin; Durham University
摘要：This article contributes to the growing stream of research on power and micro politics in the MNE. It is situated in the critical realist epistemology. It adopts Burawoy's extended case study method together with a context-sensitive and an actor-centered mode of explanation. The case is intriguing: a MNE from Brazil expands into Canada, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Norway and imposes a new pay and performance management system, contrasting with existing host norms. The article uses this...
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作者：Stahl, Guenter K.; Tung, Rosalie L.; Kostova, Tatiana; Zellmer-Bruhn, Mary
作者单位：Vienna University of Economics & Business; Simon Fraser University; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：The point of departure for the special issue is that current theory and research in international business (IB) may have overly emphasized a negative view on foreignness, distance, and differences of all kinds (national, cultural, organizational, and institutional), with an emphasis on liabilities and adverse outcomes associated with such differences. While existing research is certainly valuable, we argue that focusing on mostly negative processes and outcomes has hindered our understanding o...
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作者：Forsgren, Mats
作者单位：Uppsala University
摘要：In their article from 2009, Johanson and Vahlne suggest a reformulation of the Uppsala internationalization process model by incorporating business network theory and entrepreneurship theory into the model. The present paper makes a critical examination of this reformulation. The overall conclusion is that several issues have to be addressed regarding the relationship between business networks and firms' internationalization, the meaning of entrepreneurship as well as the possibility to combin...
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作者：Boellis, Andrea; Mariotti, Sergio; Minichilli, Alessandro; Piscitello, Lucia
作者单位：Polytechnic University of Milan; Bocconi University
摘要：Extant literature on foreign entry increasingly recognizes firms' heterogeneity as a potential reason for inconsistency in results on the establishment mode choice, that is, whether and under which conditions firms should choose to enter a new country through a greenfield investment or an acquisition. Our study contributes to this debate by identifying family ownership and family involvement in management as potential powerful sources of such heterogeneity. Integrating international business s...
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作者：Darendeli, Izzet Sidki; Hill, T. L.
作者单位：California State University System; California State University East Bay; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：Using the before-after natural experiment occasioned by the Arab Spring in Libya, we explore how market and non-market activity affect foreign firm legitimacy in times of political turmoil. Although all MNEs in Libya had to cultivate strong ties to Qadhafi to succeed during his 40 years of rule, we found that those that also invested in social-benefit projects and in social ties with families with few ties to the Qadhafi family earned a broad-based legitimacy that helped them survive Qadhafi's...
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作者：Bu, Maoliang; Wagner, Marcus
作者单位：Nanjing University; University of Augsburg
摘要：This study builds on the pollution haven and induced innovation arguments as explanations for firm behavior with regard to international environmental management and argues both need to be integrated. This implies that foreign direct investment is capable of facilitating a race to the bottom and a race to the top simultaneously. Using novel and detailed data, we test whether environmental capabilities and weaknesses and other characteristics affect US firms' foreign direct investment choices i...
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作者：Bernini, Michele; Du, Jun; Love, James H.
作者单位：Aston University; Aston University; University of Warwick; University of Warwick
