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作者：Brouthers, Keith D.; Geisser, Kim Dung; Rothlauf, Franz
作者单位：University of London; King's College London; Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz; Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
摘要：Information and communication technologies have given rise to a new type of firm, the ibusiness firm. These firms offer a platform that allows users to interact with each other and generate value through user co-creation of content. Because of this, ibusiness firms face different challenges when they internationalize compared with traditional firms, even those online. In this article we extend existing internationalization theory to encompass this new type of organization. We theorize that bec...
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作者：Chen, Wenjie; Kamal, Fariha
作者单位：George Washington University
摘要：This article evaluates the effect of adopting Internet-enabled information and communication technology (ICT adoption) on the decision to reorganize production across national borders (foreign boundary decision) by multinational enterprises (MNEs). Using a transaction cost framework, we argue that ICT adoption influences foreign boundary decisions by lowering coordination costs both internally and externally for the firm. We propose that the heterogeneity in the technology's characteristics, n...
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作者：Laplume, Andre O.; Petersen, Bent; Pearce, Joshua M.
作者单位：Michigan Technological University; Copenhagen Business School; Michigan Technological University; Michigan Technological University
摘要：This article outlines the evolution of additive manufacturing technology, culminating in 3D printing and presents a vision of how this evolution is affecting existing global value chains (GVCs) in production. In particular, we bring up questions about how this new technology can affect the geographic span and density of GVCs. Potentially, wider adoption of this technology has the potential to partially reverse the trend towards global specialization of production systems into elements that may...
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作者：Lew, Yong Kyu; Sinkovics, Rudolf R.; Mo Yamin; Khan, Zaheer
作者单位：Hankuk University Foreign Studies; University of Manchester; Alliance Manchester Business School; Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT; University of Sheffield
摘要：In the information age, the firm's performance hinges on combining partners' specialist knowledge to achieve value co-creation. Combining knowledge from different specialties could be a costly process in the international technology alliances (ITAs) context. We argue that the combination of different specializations requires the development of trans-specialization understanding (TSU) instead of the internalization of partners' specialist knowledge. This article examines the extent to which int...
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作者：Alcacer, Juan; Cantwell, John; Piscitello, Lucia
作者单位：Harvard University; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Polytechnic University of Milan
摘要：The new techno-economic paradigm of the information age has brought about new structures and processes in international business (16). In this article, we examine the changing nature of the competitive advantages of places, the competitive advantages and strategies of firms, and the governance structure of IB networks in what has also been called the third industrial revolution. These three areas of change in IB activities can be mapped respectively to the location (L), ownership (O) and inter...
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作者：Gooris, Julien; Peeters, Carine
作者单位：Vlerick Business School
摘要：This study shows that, when sourcing business services in foreign countries, the fragmentation of processes across production units acts as an operational-level adjustment variable for firms to adapt their information protection approach to the regulative environment of the host country they have selected and to the possibility to use internal controls over the activities performed abroad. We hypothesize that, when the above mechanisms are not available, firms are more likely to fragment proce...
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作者：Cumming, Douglas; Knill, April; Syyrud, Kelsey
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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...
