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作者：Buckley, Peter J.
作者单位：University of Leeds; University of International Business & Economics
摘要：This paper demonstrates that Adam Smith's insights and reasoning can improve the theory of international business, and shed light on its academic practices. Smith was a system builder; his theory of knowledge underpinned his entire oeuvre, and understanding his systematic approach can help current international business to achieve a similarly coherent body of theory. Smith's approach sheds direct light on decision-making in multinational enterprises, and on cultural distance (the liability of ...
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作者：Casillas, Jose C.; Moreno-Menendez, Ana M.
作者单位：University of Sevilla
摘要：By analyzing internationalization as a dynamic process, we attempt to explain the speed of international operations in terms of learning acquired in the course of past international activities. We consider that the speed of the internationalization process depends on the type of experiential learning that results from decisions implicit in the internationalization process: choice of location and modes of operation. Firms develop two types of learning activities with respect to the selection of...
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作者：Cantwell, John
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作者：Cheng, Joseph L. C.; Birkinshaw, Julian; Lessard, Donald R.; Thomas, David C.
作者单位：University of New South Wales Sydney; University of London; London Business School; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Twenty-five years ago, Dunning articulated a vision for greater interdisciplinary grounding in international business (IB) research. Motivated by his foresight, this special issue aims to encourage research that explicitly combines ideas from different disciplines, with a view to creating new integrative theories with greater explanatory power than those based on a single discipline. Five articles selected from a pool of 60 submissions are presented in the special issue, each with its own dist...
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作者：Chidlow, Agnieszka; Plakoyiannaki, Emmanuella; Welch, Catherine
作者单位：Manchester Metropolitan University; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; University of Sydney
摘要：In this paper, we problematise the way translation has been treated in international business (IB) research. We start by conducting an interpretive content analysis of both qualitative and quantitative cross-language studies published in four core IB journals over the course of a decade. Our analysis shows the dominance of a technicist view of translation associated with the equivalence paradigm. In contrast, we advocate a shift to a more contextualised approach informed by theoretical develop...
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作者：Caligiuri, Paula
作者单位：Northeastern University
摘要：Minbaeva, Pedersen, Bjorkman, Fey and Park's (2003) award-winning article highlights the importance of human resource management (HRM) practices for enhancing employees' ability and motivation to transfer knowledge - practices that, in turn, affect knowledge transfer to subsidiaries within multinational corporations (MNCs). In the decade since their laudable article was published, some contributions have been made highlighting the contingencies related to the effectiveness of HRM practices in ...
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作者：Haley, Usha C. V.; Boje, David M.
作者单位：West Virginia University; New Mexico State University
摘要：Internationalization deals with expansion across space and time. Researchers have framed internationalization as market growth and expansion through foreign direct investment (FDI). We use narrative theory to frame a bigger, richer picture. Using Mikhail Bakhtin's typology of nine space time conceptions and directed observations of McDonald's Corporation, we show how multinational enterprises (MNEs) create narratives of internationalization to mitigate the risks of FDI. Competing space time co...
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作者：Bekaert, Geert; Harvey, Campbell R.; Lundblad, Christian T.; Siegel, Stephan
作者单位：Columbia University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Duke University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：We introduce a new, market-based and forward-looking measure of political risk derived from the yield spread between a country's US dollar debt and an equivalent US Treasury bond. We explain the variation in these sovereign spreads with four factors: global economic conditions, country-specific economic factors, liquidity of the country's bond, and political risk. We then extract the part of the sovereign spread that is due to political risk, making use of political risk ratings. In addition, ...
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作者：Regner, Patrick; Edman, Jesper
作者单位：Stockholm School of Economics; Hitotsubashi University
摘要：Scholars increasingly emphasize the impact of institutions on multinational enterprises (MNEs), but the opposite relationship has attracted less research that is, MNE agency in relation to institutions. Based on a comparative case study of six MNEs from the United States and Sweden, this paper remedies this. It explores and explicates MNE subunits' strategic responses to host country institutional constraints and opportunities in five different regions. A new-institutional approach is adopted,...
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作者：Janssens, Maddy; Steyaert, Chris
作者单位：KU Leuven; University of St Gallen
摘要：This paper aims to uncover the normative assumptions that guide language studies in international business. Relying on sociolinguistics and cosmopolitan theory, we point to the possibility of conceiving language as a social practice rather than a discrete entity, and understanding globalization as the entanglement between universality and particularity rather than treating these two notions separately. Combining these linguistic and global assumptions, we arrive at three different research app...
