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作者：Smith, Sheryl Winston
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：International trade and R&D offer significant opportunities for knowledge transfer through exports, but simultaneously increase potential competition through imports. In this paper, the author examines industry-level heterogeneity in the relationship between domestic innovation and international trade. Using a model of innovation in the global economy and a novel measure of relative industry strength, the paper examines differential effects of exports and imports in high-technology industries....
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作者：Reuer, Jeffrey J.; Ragozzino, Roberto
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; Universitat Ramon Llull; Escuela Superior de Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE)
摘要：This paper extends signaling theory to the study of firms' international alliances. Signals can be valuable in facilitating these collaborations because they reduce the risk of adverse selection surrounding cross-border partnerships. We specifically investigate whether firms' affiliations with prominent financial intermediaries enable the formation of international collaborative agreements. We also argue and find that the signaling benefits of these affiliations diminish with the firm's engage...
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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：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：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：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' ...
