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作者：Ma, Xufei; Tong, Tony W.; Fitza, Markus
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; University of Newcastle
摘要：What explains the heterogeneity of foreign subsidiary performance? Previous studies have emphasized the importance of industry, corporate parent, and home-country effects on the variation of foreign subsidiary performance. Building on recent international business and economic geography research, this study examines the extent to which subnational region effects can also explain such performance variation. We empirically decompose the variance of the performance of Fortune Global 500 Corporati...
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作者：Kim, Minyoung
作者单位：University of Kansas
摘要：Studies examining the competitive implications of geographic scope have largely focused on creating competitive advantage. In an attempt to investigate a less-illuminated role of geographic scope - that of sustaining competitive advantage - this paper investigates the sources of and relationships among the causal factors leading to creation of isolating mechanisms or barriers to imitation. This paper first distinguishes two sources of causal factors linked to the creation of isolating mechanis...
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作者：Ronen, Simcha; Shenkar, Oded
作者单位：Tel Aviv University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：This paper extends and builds on Ronen and Shenkar's synthesized cultural clustering of countries based on similarity and dissimilarity in work-related attitudes. The new map uses an updated dataset, and expands coverage to world areas that were non-accessible at the time. Cluster boundaries are drawn empirically rather than intuitively, and the plot obtained is triple nested, indicating three levels of similarity across given country pairs. Also delineated are cluster adjacency and cluster co...
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作者：Piscitello, Lucia
作者单位：Polytechnic University of Milan
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作者：Levin, Daniel Z.; Barnard, Helena
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Newark; University of Pretoria
摘要：Less-developed countries benefit from being connected to technologically and economically advanced countries. The well-documented mechanisms for this cross-national flow of knowledge all involve interfirm connections, such as trade, foreign direct investment (FDI), and alliances. We examine the potential of a different mechanism interpersonal ties abroad that has only recently become practicable, owing to advances in communication and transportation technologies, globalization, and increased m...
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作者：Belderbos, Rene; Leten, Bart; Suzuki, Shinya
作者单位：KU Leuven; Maastricht University; Maastricht University; Vlerick Business School; National Institute of Science & Technology Policy (NISTEP)
摘要：Despite an increasing internationalization of R&D activities by multinational firms, a major portion of corporate R&D still tends to be concentrated in firms' home countries. We examine the extent to which there exists a home-country bias in the location of R&D activities of 156 major R&D-intensive firms based in Europe, the United States, and Japan during 1995-2002, and develop hypotheses concerning the firm-level determinants of such home-country bias. We define this bias as a share of globa...
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作者：Aycan, Zeynep; Schyns, Birgit; Sun, Jian-Min; Felfe, Joerg; Saher, Noreen
作者单位：Koc University; Durham University; Renmin University of China; Helmut Schmidt University; International Islamic University, Pakistan
摘要：Paternalistic leaders provide care, nurturance, and guidance to employees in their professional and personal lives in a parental manner, and, in exchange, expect loyalty and deference from employees. This study aims at investigating how the paternalistic leadership (PL) prototype converges and diverges with prototypes of transformational, authoritarian, participative, and nurturant-task leadership (NTL) in six countries representing high power distance and collectivism (China, Turkey, and Paki...
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作者：Aulakh, Preet S.; Jiang, Marshall S.; Li, Sali
作者单位：York University - Canada; Brock University; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：Granting of exclusive rights is an important consideration for firms using licensing as a mode of entry into foreign markets, as exclusive contracts reduce licensors' flexibility in a given market during the term of the agreement. By granting exclusivity to a licensee with greater technological potential, the exchange partners can increase the potential transactional value of the licensing agreement. At the same time, a licensee with strong technological potential will increase the threat of t...
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作者：Bhanji, Zahra; Oxley, Joanne E.
作者单位：York University - Canada; University of Toronto
摘要：Responding to increased demands from stakeholder groups, many companies have instituted corporate citizenship programs in recent years, leveraging their specialized resources to create public goods and services at home and abroad. Significant suspicion nonetheless remains about the motives and impact of corporations acting in domains traditionally served by government and third-sector organizations. We argue that such ambivalence undermines the perceived legitimacy of private investments in pu...
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作者：Muethel, Miriam; Bond, Michael Harris
作者单位：WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：Out-group trust is a crucial driver of international business performance. However, employees from different countries vary in their levels of out-group trust. The aim of this study is therefore to capture national forces driving out-group trust. Based on Kramer's theorizing on the multiple bases of trust, we argue that, at the societal level, dispositional, categorization-based and rule-based trust influence employees' out-group trust. In particular, we argue for dispositional and rule-based ...
