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作者：Corredoira, Rafael A.; McDermott, Gerald A.
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; Austral University
摘要：How do multinational corporation (MNC) subsidiaries and local institutions help or hinder emerging market suppliers to upgrade their capabilities? Drawing on insights from economic sociology and comparative capitalism, we posit that in these contexts of scarce resources and inferior technologies upgrading depends on the ways in which organizational and institutional networks enable firms to integrate imported advanced knowledge with local applied knowledge. Using a combination of field work an...
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作者：Wan, Wendy W. N.; Luk, Chung-Leung; Chow, Cheris W. C.
作者单位：Tunghai University; City University of Hong Kong; University of Macau
摘要：Drawing on insights from evolutionary psychology and sociology, this research seeks to explain the gender differences and within-sex variations in consumer responses to nudity in advertisements. Specifically, we argue that the abundant resources that come with modernization emancipate women from the dependency on a long-term relationship with a male partner for child bearing and rearing. Therefore, women in modern societies are more likely to use fast reproductive strategies (e.g., short-term ...
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作者：Sofka, Wolfgang; Preto, Miguel Torres; de Faria, Pedro
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Universidade de Coimbra; Universidade de Lisboa; University of Groningen
摘要：We investigate the consequences of MNC subsidiary closures for employees who lose their jobs. In particular, we examine the extent to which the human capital that these employees acquired while employed by the MNC influences the wages they receive in their new jobs. We propose an employee displacement model for foreign MNC subsidiaries that integrates insights from the labor economics and international business literatures. We argue that a new employer will pay higher wages when signals indica...
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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：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...
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作者：Young, Susan L.; Makhija, Mona V.
作者单位：Seton Hall University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Understanding firms' behavior across countries - a key concern in the international business literature - requires the joint consideration of both institutional influences and firms' profit maximization goals. In the corporate social responsibility (CSR) area, however, researchers have utilized theories that take into account only one or the other - institutional theory, which explains CSR as legitimacy-seeking activities in line with national-level institutions, or economic-based approaches t...
