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作者：Abdi, Majid; Aulakh, Preet S.
作者单位：University of Newcastle; York University - Canada
摘要：Interfirm relationships among partners from institutionally distant environments are subject to governance difficulties, owing to the paucity of shared cognitive and regulatory frameworks. We examine the potential of formal contracting and relational governance developed at the partnership level to overcome the formal and informal institutional gap at the country level. Empirical results from a sample of 184 international partnerships of large US firms support an overall substitutive relations...
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作者：Peterson, Mark F.; Arregle, Jean-Luc; Martin, Xavier
作者单位：emlyon business school; State University System of Florida; Florida Atlantic University; Maastricht University; Tilburg University; Tilburg University
摘要：Multiple-level (or mixed linear) modeling (MLM) can simultaneously test hypotheses at several levels of analysis (usually two or three), or control for confounding effects at one level while testing hypotheses at others. Advances in multi-level modeling allow increased precision in quantitative international business (IB) research, and open up new methodological and conceptual possibilities. However, they create new challenges, and they are still not frequently used in IB research. In this edi...
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作者：Maekelburger, Birger; Schwens, Christian; Kabst, Ruediger
作者单位：Justus Liebig University Giessen; Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf
摘要：According to transaction cost economics (TCE) reasoning, firms choose equity (as opposed to non-equity) foreign market entry modes to safeguard specific assets. The present paper contextualizes the well-researched relationship between asset specificity and foreign market entry mode choice by introducing knowledge safeguards (international experience, host-country networks, and imitation) and institutional safeguards (property rights protection and cultural proximity) as alternative mechanisms ...
