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作者：Ganotakis, Panagiotis; Love, James H.
作者单位：Aston University; University of Leeds
摘要：We investigate how the characteristics and experience of the entrepreneurial founding team (EFT) affect the export orientation and subsequent performance of the businesses they establish, while allowing for the mutually reinforcing relationship between exporting and productivity. Using a sample of UK technology-based firms, we hypothesise and confirm that the set of EFT human capital needed for entering export markets is different from that required for succeeding in export markets. Commercial...
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作者：Ravlin, Elizabeth C.; Liao, Yuan; Morrell, Daniel L.; Au, Kevin; Thomas, David C.
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; Simon Fraser University; Middle Tennessee State University; Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of New South Wales Sydney
摘要：As organizations globalize, culturally based variation in the ways employees conceptualize their relationships with their employers increases in importance. In the competition for talent, organizations must understand employee preferences and expectations regarding their treatment by the firm. Recently, culture's influence on the psychological contract (individual perceptions of employer obligations) has been noted with regard to the extent that employees perceive their psychological contracts...
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作者：Tippmann, Esther; Scott, Pamela Sharkey; Mangematin, Vincent
作者单位：University College Dublin; Technological University Dublin; Grenoble Ecole Management
摘要：It is widely acknowledged in the international business literature that subsidiaries can make a strategic contribution to multinational corporations (MNCs). Departing from the common focus on subsidiary role, contexts and organizational MNC factors, this study explores the micro-level details of managers' actions and interactions. We conducted an in-depth qualitative study into 38 problem-solving processes employed across four subsidiaries. Taking a non-routine problem-solving perspective on h...
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作者：Kim, Young-Choon; Lu, Jane W.; Rhee, Mooweon
作者单位：National University of Singapore; University of Hawaii System
摘要：This paper extends research on experiential learning of foreign subsidiaries by exploring the temporal conditions under which a foreign subsidiary can benefit from the experience of its sister subsidiaries. Building upon organizational evolution and learning literature, we propose that differences in entry timing among sister subsidiaries provide structural conditions that bound the opportunities for inter-subsidiary learning. We argue that different entry cohorts of sister subsidiaries are be...
