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作者：Monaghan, Sinead; Gunnigle, Patrick; Lavelle, Jonathan
作者单位：University of Limerick
摘要：Significant contemporary challenges face an internationalizing firm, including the non-ergodic nature of investment, and the liability of outsidership. Recent revisions to the Uppsala internationalization process model reflect these challenges, whereby insidership is represented as realized, successful foreign market entry. Drawing upon socio-spatial concepts from international business and economic geography, this paper demonstrates the endogeneity of subnational institutions in shaping forei...
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作者：Cantwell, John
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作者：Bass, A. Erin; Chakrabarty, Subrata
作者单位：University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln
摘要：We develop a resource security theory by examining the intent of acquisitions of scarce resources by multinational firms. Results suggest that owners of firms can shape the intent of resource acquisitions. Specifically, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) tend to acquire and pay more for resources for exploration rather than exploitation. This is because SOEs' owners governments are most concerned with securing their country's future. We contribute to the literature by suggesting that ownership inf...
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作者：Schleimer, Stephanie C.; Pedersen, Torben
作者单位：Griffith University; Griffith University - Gold Coast Campus; Bocconi University
摘要：Although the literature provides ample evidence that the global transfer and local implementation of knowledge represents a key advantage for multinational corporations (MNCs), we lack comparable understanding as to whether knowledge-creating MNC parents can actively expand the absorptive capacity of their subsidiaries. Using a teacher-student lens, this study examines the combined impact of specific structural mechanisms and motivational processes by MNC parents on the ability of 216 subsidia...
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作者：Jory, Surendranath Rakesh; Thanh Ngoc Ngo
作者单位：University of Sussex; University of North Carolina; East Carolina University
摘要：We examine the decision of private sector enterprises from developed countries to acquire state-owned enterprises (SOEs) abroad. Using a sample of US firms buying targets abroad between 1987 and 2009, we find that bidders of SOE fare worse than bidders of non-SOE both in terms of stock price and operating performance. We also find that the quality of the target country location as captured by the Economic Freedom of the World (ERN) Index greatly influences the choice of SOE targets. Interestin...
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作者：Sliwa, Martyna; Johansson, Marjana
作者单位：University of Essex
摘要：The aim of this paper is to examine the effects of evaluations of non-native speaking staff's spoken English in international business settings. We adopt a sociolinguistic perspective on power and inequalities in linguistically diverse organizations in an Anglophone environment. The interpretive qualitative study draws on 54 interviews with non-native English-speaking staff in 19 UK business schools. We analyze, along the dimensions of status, solidarity and dynamism, the ways in which non-nat...
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作者：Li, Ming Hua; Cui, Lin; Lu, Jiangyong
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Australian National University; Peking University
摘要：Institutional diversity characterizing state-owned enterprises (SOEs) from emerging economies holds critical but under-examined implications for their internationalization activities. Different types of SOEs can exhibit distinct motivations, strategic resources, and adaptive capabilities for penetrating foreign markets. To understand how such idiosyncratic differences emerge, we conceptualize the heterogeneity of SOEs as an outcome of multiple institutional reform processes administrative and ...
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作者：Vahlne, Jan-Erik; Ivarsson, Inge
作者单位：University of Gothenburg
摘要：We define globalization as the geographical dispersion of multinational enterprises (MNEs)' value chain, in combination with increased inter-regional coordination, and use detailed firm-level data to show that 12 of Sweden's 17 largest manufacturing companies indeed are global. By developing a Globalization Process Model we theoretically argue, in contrast to much of the existing literature, that globalization may evolve to a more general phenomenon. The globalization process is tortuous as MN...
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作者：Barner-Rasmussen, Wilhelm; Ehrnrooth, Mats; Koveshnikov, Alexei; Makela, Kristiina
作者单位：Hanken School of Economics; Aalto University
摘要：We examine the role of cultural and language skills as resources for individuals' boundary spanning ability in multinational corporations. Our combined qualitative and quantitative analysis shows that cultural and language skills influence the extent to which individual boundary spanners perform four functions: exchanging, linking, facilitating, and intervening. Boundary spanners with both cultural and language skills perform more functions than those with only cultural skills, and language sk...
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作者：Lucke, Gundula; Kostova, Tatiana; Roth, Kendall
作者单位：Uppsala University; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：Multiculturalism, the internal representation of multiple cultural meaning systems, has critical implications for global managers and multinational corporations (MNCs). Understanding multiculturalism is becoming increasingly important, given that the locations within which MNC activity resides, and the composition of the workforce even within a given location, are more diverse. Building on the connectionism perspective, we offer a novel cognitive conceptualization of multiculturalism that inco...
