2011

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• Intellectual capital configurations and organizational capability: An empirical examination of human resource subunits in the multinational enterprise AI翻译
  作者：Morris, Shad S.; Snell, Scott A.
  作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of Virginia; University of Virginia
  摘要：Building on the organizational capabilities literature and theories of the multinational enterprise, this paper develops and tests a framework that examines the relationship between intellectual capital configurations and organizational capabilities in human resource (HR) subunits. Looking at 187 subunits from 20 MNEs, findings show that intellectual capital dimensions vary in their usefulness for generating, sharing, and implementing HR management practices. In particular, while certain resou...
• Microlending in emerging economies: Building a new line of inquiry from the ground up AI翻译
  作者：Bruton, Garry D.; Khavul, Susanna; Chavez, Helmuth
  作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Arlington; Texas Christian University; Sun Yat Sen University
  摘要：The world's poor may be the last great frontier in international business. International microlenders are increasingly tapping into this emerging opportunity by extending small business loans to millions of borrowers. However, to date, there is very limited understanding of this domain from an international business perspective. Using qualitative case studies developed in Guatemala and the Dominican Republic we probe the causes and consequences of high performance and business failure for micr...
• Small firm internationalisation unveiled through phenomenography AI翻译
  作者：Lamb, Peter; Sandberg, Joergen; Liesch, Peter W.
  作者单位：La Trobe University; University of Queensland
  摘要：Phenomenography is proposed here as a qualitative methodology for investigating how owner-managers practise internationalisation in small firms, and it is applied in an empirical study of internationalising owner-managed small Australian wineries. The findings show a common internationalisation activity cycle but four qualitatively different ways in which these owner-managers practise internationalisation. We reveal that this variation in owner-manager internationalisation practices is determi...
• Qualitative research for international business AI翻译
  作者：Doz, Yves
  作者单位：INSEAD Business School
  摘要：Qualitative research in international business has been rare, the main research streams of the field relying more on quantitative methods. This paper first outlines why qualitative research has been scant. It then presents areas, such as theory building, where qualitative research could make a substantial contribution. Third, it reviews approaches to high standards of qualitative research and criteria for evaluating qualitative research. Finally, some possible research areas where qualitative ...
• Historical ties and foreign direct investment: An exploratory study AI翻译
  作者：Makino, Shige; Tsang, Eric W. K.
  作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
  摘要：Recent research suggests that the distance between countries in terms of culture, institutions, geographic proximity, and economic development matters in the foreign direct investment (FDI) decisions made by firms. This study focuses on the historical ties between countries as an additional factor affecting such decisions. In particular, it examines three major historical factors that affect cross-country ties with Vietnam, namely, Chinese occupation and conflict, French colonization, and soci...
• Reported trade figure discrepancy, regulatory arbitrage, and round-tripping: Evidence from the China-Hong Kong trade data AI翻译
  作者：Fung, Hung-Gay; Yau, Jot; Zhang, Gaiyan
  作者单位：University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Saint Louis; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Saint Louis; Seattle University
  摘要：This study uses reported trade figures from China and Hong Kong to examine the relationships among market impediments, trade figure irregularities, and tax-induced regulatory arbitrage. The empirical findings, consistent with our tax-induced regulatory arbitrage models and the round-tripping phenomenon in China (that is, moving funds across the Mainland Chinese border through trade, typically to Hong Kong or an offshore tax haven, before re-entering China as foreign direct investment), provide...
• Rationality vs ignorance: The role of MNE headquarters in subsidiaries' innovation processes AI翻译
  作者：Ciabuschi, Francesco; Forsgren, Mats; Martin Martin, Oscar
  作者单位：Uppsala University; Universidad Publica de Navarra
  摘要：Innovation processes in multinational enterprises (MNE) are largely context specific, and carried out at the subsidiary level. Therefore, corporate headquarters (HQ) involvement in these processes becomes a major issue. A typical assumption in international business (IB) theory is that HQ based on its own knowledge, makes rational choices about its own involvement. However, according to some studies, HQ involvement can be assumed to be less rational, in the sense that it reflects not HQ knowle...
• Extending the internationalization process model: Increases and decreases of MNE commitment in emerging economies AI翻译
  作者：Santangelo, Grazia D.; Meyer, Klaus E.
  作者单位：University of Bath; University of Catania; China Europe International Business School
  摘要：The internationalization process model suggests that firms internationalize by building positions in foreign markets and networks, following iterative cycles of learning and changes in commitment. However, as subsidiaries evolve, commitments may be decreased as well as increased, a phenomenon that has rarely been studied. Moreover, it remains an open question why strategic intentions at the outset of an investment project differ from the actual operations established. We address these question...
• Boundary work: An interpretive ethnographic perspective on negotiating and leveraging cross-cultural identity AI翻译
  作者：Yagi, Noriko; Kleinberg, Jill
  作者单位：Butler University; University of Kansas
  摘要：The complexity of global organizations highlights the importance of members' ability to span diverse boundaries that may be defined by organization structures, national borders, and/or a variety of cultures associated with organization, nation-based societal and work cultures, industries, and/or professions. Based on ethnographic research in a Japan-US binational firm, the paper describes and analyzes the boundary role performance of the firm's Japanese members. It contributes toward theory on...
• Safe nests in global nets: Internationalization and appropriability of R&D in wireless telecom AI翻译
  作者：Di Minin, Alberto; Bianchi, Mattia
  作者单位：Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Stockholm School of Economics
  摘要：This paper documents the case of the wireless telecom industry to bring new empirical evidence to the debate on the internationalization of research and development (R&D) activities. US patent statistics on the four industry leaders Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia and Qualcomm - illustrate the growing trend of the internationalization of R&D over the 1990s, yet we show that the most critical R&D projects related to the development of wireless standards remain homebound. The paper then leverages qual...