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作者：Riefler, Petra; Diamantopoulos, Adamantios; Siguaw, Judy A.
作者单位：University of Vienna; University of North Carolina; East Carolina University
摘要：For international companies, the literature recommends directing segmentation efforts at customer characteristics rather than country characteristics. Consumers' degree of cosmopolitan orientation has been suggested as a powerful segmentation base, as this characteristic is expected to drive consumers' tastes and preferences. To advance research on this segmentation base, this article offers a conceptualization of the consumer cosmopolitanism construct by: (1) delineating its conceptual domain...
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作者：Eapen, Alex
作者单位：University of Sydney
摘要：Do domestic firms benefit from the presence of foreign multinational firms? The FDI spillovers literature addresses this very issue, primarily examining whether the presence of foreign firms in a host market leads to technology spillovers and upgrading in domestic firms. A key finding is that spillovers depend on the absorptive capacity of the domestic firm. Yet, in conceptualizing absorptive capacity, scholars have largely overlooked how social structure shapes it. Integrating insights from s...
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作者：Lam, Son K.; Ahearne, Michael; Schillewaert, Niels
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University of Houston System; University of Houston; Vlerick Business School
摘要：The authors propose a symbolic instrumental interactive framework of consumer brand identification (CBI) and explore its predictiveness across 15 countries. Using multinational data, they show that the negative impact of the misalignment between self brand congruity and perceived quality on CBI is universal. The interaction among CBI, perceived quality, and uncertainty avoidance orientation in motivating consumers' identity-sustaining behavior is weak. However, the synergy between CBI and perc...
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作者：Dellestrand, Henrik; Kappen, Philip
作者单位：Uppsala University
摘要：Subsidiaries of multinational enterprises are located in a range of environments, in which they are exposed to organizational, national, and sub-national characteristics. Instead of being distributed equally, economic resources are agglomerated in specific countries, or even regions, and the subsidiaries located in these different environments have a heterogeneous resource configuration. This implies that dimensions of space related to geography and subsidiary network relationships may affect ...
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作者：Reeb, David; Sakakibara, Mariko; Mahmood, Ishtiaq P.
作者单位：National University of Singapore
摘要：This essay builds on the exposition by Thomas et al. and focuses on analyzing cause and effect in international business research. We attempt to explain how endogeneity problems occur and why they are so prevalent in international business research in a non-technical fashion. We then discuss the importance of explicitly identifying how the chosen research design best approximates a randomized-controlled experiment. Finally, we provide some guidelines on achieving this goal and emphasize the pr...
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作者：Pinkse, Jonatan; Kolk, Ans
作者单位：University of Amsterdam; Grenoble Ecole Management
摘要：This paper explores how climate change affects multinational enterprises (MNEs), focusing on the challenges they face in overcoming liabilities and filling institutional voids related to the issue. Climate change is characterized by institutional failures, because there is neither an enforceable global agreement nor a market morality. Climate change is also a distinctive international business issue, as its institutional failures materialize differently in different countries. As governments a...
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作者：Cui, Lin; Jiang, Fuming
作者单位：Curtin University; Australian National University
摘要：This study investigates the effect of state ownership on Chinese firms' foreign direct investment (FDI) ownership decisions. It adopts a political perspective to extend the application of institutional theory in international business research. Specifically, it examines firms' heterogeneous responses to external institutional processes during foreign market entry, while taking into consideration the political affiliation of firms with the external institutions. We argue that state ownership cr...
