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作者：Williams, David W.; Gregoire, Denis A.
作者单位：University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal
摘要：Past research established distance's key influence on internationalization. However, theoretical issues, methodological challenges, and inconsistent results hinder scholarship on why distance plays such an influential role. To address these problems, we draw from cognitive research on similarity comparisons to re-conceptualize distance and test a model of internationalization decisions. Analyzing the verbal protocols of executives considering a series of internationalization opportunities, we ...
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作者：Jiang, Yuan; Colakoglu, Saba; Lepak, David P.; Blasi, Joseph R.; Kruse, Douglas L.
作者单位：Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Koc University; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick
摘要：Work practices that involve employees are generally assumed to be less effective in more hierarchical societies where employees' values are not aligned with such practices. In this study, we challenge this assumption by developing a theory that differentiates between the symbolic and instrumental aspects of involvement work systems and proposing that their symbolic impact will be more pronounced in egalitarian societies, whereas their instrumental impact will be more pronounced in hierarchical...
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作者：Sharma, Piyush
作者单位：Curtin University
摘要：Consumer ethnocentrism (CE) is a popular construct in international marketing research and is generally measured using the CETSCALE, a reliable scale with proven predictive validity but with limited evidence about its construct validity, dimensionality and cross-cultural measurement invariance. This note addresses these gaps by reconceptualizing CE as an attitude construct consisting of three dimensions: (1) affective reaction, (2) cognitive bias and (3) behavioral preference. A revised CE sca...
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作者：Levy, Orly; Taylor, Sully; Boyacigiller, Nakiye A.; Bodner, Todd E.; Peiperl, Maury A.; Beechler, Schon
作者单位：International Institute for Management Development (IMD); Portland State University; Sabanci University; Portland State University; INSEAD Business School
摘要：Drawing on the structural perspective in organizational theory, this study develops a conceptual framework of the social hierarchy within the multinational corporation (MNC). We suggest that parent country nationals (PCNs), host country nationals (HCNs), and third country nationals (TCNs) occupy distinctively different positions in the social hierarchy, which are anchored in their differential control or access to various forms of capital or strategically valuable organizational resources. We ...
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作者：Zhang, Xiao; Zhong, Weiguo; Makino, Shige
作者单位：Nanjing University; Peking University; Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要：To overcome the costs of doing business abroad, researchers have suggested either legitimacy- or efficiency-based solutions. However, both types of solutions still treat host-country customers as external to the theory. We highlight the role of customers in the international professional business service setting and argue that customer involvement is positively related to the perceived internationalization performance of multinational corporations (MNCs). MNCs with managers who perceive higher...
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作者：Stephan, Ute; Uhlaner, Lorraine M.; Stride, Christopher
作者单位：Aston University; Universite Catholique de Lille; EDHEC Business School; University of Sheffield
摘要：We develop the institutional configuration perspective to understand which national contexts facilitate social entrepreneurship (SE). We confirm joint effects on SE of formal regulatory (government activism), informal cognitive (post-materialist cultural values), and informal normative (socially supportive cultural norms, or weak-tie social capital) institutions in a multilevel study of 106,484 individuals in 26 nations. We test opposing propositions from the institutional void and institution...
