2014

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• Cross-border mergers and domestic-firm wages: Integrating spillover effects and bargaining effects AI翻译
  作者：Clougherty, Joseph A.; Gugler, Klaus; Sorgard, Lars; Szuecs, Florian W.
  作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Vienna University of Economics & Business; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); Leibniz Association; DIW Berlin - Deutsches Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung
  摘要：Two literatures exist concerning cross-border merger activity's impact on domestic wages: one focusing on positive spillover effects; the other focusing on negative bargaining effects. Motivated by scarce theoretical scholarship spanning these literatures, we nest both mechanisms in a single conceptual framework. Considering the separate phenomena of inward and outward cross-border merger activity, our theoretical model generates three formal propositions: cross-border mergers can lead to wage...
• Englishization in offshore call centers: A postcolonial perspective AI翻译
  作者：Boussebaa, Mehdi; Sinha, Shuchi; Gabriel, Yiannis
  作者单位：University of Bath; Indian Institute of Technology System (IIT System); Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Delhi
  摘要：The spread and use of English as the lingua franca of international business (IB) corporate Englishization has received increasing'scholarly attention in recent years but the focus has mostly been on the communication benefits and challenges of using English as a shared language inside multinationals. In this article we examine how English is used externally in the provision of business services and apply a postcolonial perspective to frame our analysis. Drawing on fieldwork in India within th...
• Institutions sans frontieres: International agreements and foreign investment AI翻译
  作者：Jandhyala, Srividya; Weiner, Robert J.
  作者单位：ESSEC Business School; George Washington University
  摘要：We examine whether the presence of International Investment Agreements (IIAs), negotiated among countries for foreign investor protection, lowers political risk faced by multinational enterprises (MNEs). Drawing on research from international business, political science, and international law, we argue that IIAs increase expected future cash flows, and hence the value of foreign assets, by limiting the ability of host governments to make discriminatory policy changes. However, the need for IIA...
• A microfoundations approach to transnational capabilities: The role of knowledge search in an ever-changing world AI翻译
  作者：Morris, Shad; Hammond, Ryan; Snell, Scott
  作者单位：Brigham Young University; Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU); University of Virginia
  摘要：Scholars seeking to understand the origin of dynamic capabilities have struggled to articulate specific capabilities and locate their source of variation within the firm. We propose that the transnational imperative and a microfoundations approach to knowledge search can help to develop this topic. Adopting an engaged scholarship approach, hypotheses are tested in a global consulting company. Counter to traditional capabilities arguments, we find that drawing from globally dispersed colleagues...
• Globalization of corporate risk taking AI翻译
  作者：Bruno, Valentina; Shin, Hyun Song
  作者单位：American University; Princeton University
  摘要：We explore how the interconnected nature of global finance affects corporate risk taking. We show that a common global factor known to be associated with fluctuations in cross-border banking is also strongly associated with common co-movements in corporate risk-taking across a diverse universe of international firms. Our study contributes to the international business literature as the first comprehensive investigation of how global financial conditions induce greater synchronization of risk-t...
• MNC knowledge transfer, subsidiary absorptive capacity and HRM AI翻译
  作者：Minbaeva, Dana; Pedersen, Torben; Bjorkman, Ingmar; Fey, Carl F.; Park, Hyeon Jeong
  作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; INSEAD Business School; Stockholm School of Economics; Cornell University
  摘要：Based on a sample of 169 subsidiaries of multinational corporations (MNCs) operating in the USA, Russia, and Finland, this paper investigates the relationship between MNC subsidiary HRM practices, absorptive capacity and knowledge transfer. First, we examine the relationship between the application of specific HRM practices and the level of the absorptive capacity. Second, we suggest that absorptive capacity should be conceptualized as being comprised of both employees' ability and motivation....
• The multifaceted role of language in international business: Unpacking the forms, functions and features of a critical challenge to MNC theory and performance AI翻译
  作者：Brannen, Mary Yoko; Piekkari, Rebecca; Tietze, Susanne
  作者单位：University of Victoria; Aalto University; Keele University
  摘要：Language lies at the heart of international business (IB) activities, yet language as a key construct in the field of IB has not been sufficiently articulated or theorized. Language presents itself in forms such as national, corporate, technical or electronic, in functions in terms of defining hierarchies, exercising power or facilitating integration and in features such as the use of mixed syntax or gender-marking. Understanding the complex interplay between the multiple facets of language an...
• Knowledge transfer in multinational corporations: Productive and counterproductive effects of language-sensitive recruitment AI翻译
  作者：Peltokorpi, Vesa; Vaara, Eero
  作者单位：Japan Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (JAIST); Hanken School of Economics; emlyon business school
  摘要：This paper focuses on the multifaceted role of language and language-sensitive recruitment in knowledge transfer in multinational corporations (MNCs). In particular, we develop a framework that helps to better understand how language-sensitive recruitment is related to competence, networks, identity, and power. We started by conducting a qualitative interview-based study of 101 MNC subsidiaries. This analysis elucidates the productive and counterproductive effects of language-sensitive recruit...
• Domestic alliance network to attract foreign partners: Evidence from international joint ventures in China AI翻译
  作者：Shi, Weilei (Stone); Sun, Sunny Li; Pinkham, Brian C.; Peng, Mike W.
  作者单位：City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY); University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Kansas City; Western University (University of Western Ontario); University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
  摘要：Partner selection is a critical issue in building international joint ventures (IJVs). We argue that foreign firms are more likely to select local firms with unique network structural advantages within a local alliance network. We frame structural advantages as two network position traits: centrality and brokerage. Specifically, network centrality acts as a stronger network trait than brokerage in attracting foreign IJV partners. However, such a relationship may be moderated by foreign firms' ...
• Offshoring innovation to emerging markets: Organizational control and informal institutional distance AI翻译
  作者：Sartor, Michael A.; Beamish, Paul W.
  作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario)
  摘要：The literature on innovation offshoring has focused on the dichotomous choice between two distinct investment strategies captive offshoring and outsourced offshoring. We use the concept of organizational control to investigate how differences in the informal institutions that prevail in the home and host countries influence multinational enterprise (MNE) strategy (or, the organizational control decision) with respect to subsidiaries established to offshore innovation. While the relationship be...