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作者：Peeters, Carine; Dehon, Catherine; Garcia-Prieto, Patricia
作者单位：Universite Libre de Bruxelles; Solvay SA; Vlerick Business School
摘要：Contrasting with extant research centred on the organizational challenges of sourcing services in culturally distant countries, we show that cultural differences between home and host countries do not prevent firms from achieving their cost savings targets. Instead, the effect is positive, both for the captive and out-sourcing governance models. Using insight from social psychology research and the theory of organizations, we build the argument that the positive effect is due to cultural diffe...
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作者：Liang, Hao; Ren, Bing; Sun, Sunny Li
作者单位：Tilburg University; Nankai University; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Kansas City
摘要：Integrating agency theory with institutional analysis in international business, we propose a state-control perspective to analyze government-control mechanisms in emerging economies' globalization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). We identify two types of state control that influence SOEs' globalization decisions and the degree of globalization (DOG): state ownership control and executives' political connections, both of which are contingent upon the home country's evolving institutional env...
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作者：Joshi, Amol M.; Lahiri, Nandini
作者单位：Oregon State University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：How does language friction affect alliance formation? Language friction is a form of cultural friction arising from structural differences in the respective languages used by potential partners to reason and solve problems together. A little language friction may prompt partners to rethink solutions, thereby enhancing collaboration, but excessive friction may impede collaboration. We develop a Language Friction Index (LFI) to quantify relative differences in linguistic structure for any langua...
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作者：King, Michael R.
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：This article examines the role of political bargaining and state institutions in explaining variation in state support to multinational banks (MNBs). International business theory predicts that multinational enterprises will engage in political activities to gain a competitive advantage over rivals. I hypothesize that MNBs with greater bargaining power and favorable institutions received state capital injections on more attractive terms than foreign rivals. I test this hypothesis by studying t...
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作者：Jeanjean, Thomas; Stolowy, Herve; Erkens, Michael; Yohn, Teri Lombardi
作者单位：ESSEC Business School; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：This study investigates the economic consequences of non-English-speaking companies adopting English as an external reporting language. We examine a sample of European companies that initiate the voluntary issuance of an annual report in English in addition to the local language annual report. To control for self-selection, we use a difference-in-differences design with a propensity score matched control sample. We find that adoption of English as an external reporting language is associated w...
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作者：Selmier, W. Travis, II; Newenham-Kahindi, Aloysius; Oh, Chang Hoon
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; University of Saskatchewan; Simon Fraser University
摘要：Multinational enterprises (MNEs) encounter relentless stakeholder pressures when operating across linguistic, cultural and institutional boundaries. Our aims are to examine whether and how acquisition of language resources may help MNEs to bridge these boundaries and reduce pressures on MNE legitimacy by improving their corporate social responsibility (CSR) outcomes. We propose an MNE model of language resource acquisition policy based on three language orientations: language-as-problem, langu...
