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作者：Moore, Fiona
作者单位：University of London; Royal Holloway University London
摘要：Ethnographic research in international business studies focuses mainly on small group case studies, ignoring other genres of ethnography and limiting its role. I argue, based on a study of BMW MINI, that holistic ethnography allows multiple perspectives on the organization, making it particularly useful for studying cross-border acquisitions. I analyze cross-cultural relationships in the organization, the interaction of manager and worker perspectives, and the expression of national identities...
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作者：Muethel, Miriam; Hoegl, Martin; Parboteeah, K. Praveen
作者单位：WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management; University of Wisconsin System
摘要：Employees' prosocial values have been shown to foster helping, cooperating, and volunteering behaviors, which in turn increase firm performance. However, despite the importance of prosocial values, there is a general neglect of this area in the international arena. As more trade occurs globally, interest in cross-cultural prosocial values is growing. We therefore build on socialization theory and introduce national business ideology as a country-level determinant of employees' prosocial values...
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作者：Hope, Ole-Kristian; Thomas, Wayne; Vyas, Dushyantkumar
作者单位：University of Toronto; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：Using an extensive panel of cross-border M&A transactions between 1990 and 2007, we find that firms from developing countries, compared with those from developed countries, bid higher on average to acquire assets in developed countries. We are interested in why these higher bids occur. We find that bids of firms from developing countries are higher-in cases where the transaction displays national pride characteristics, where national pride is identified through a manual examination of media ar...
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作者：Gertsen, Martine Cardel; Soderberg, Anne-Marie
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School
摘要：The objective of this article is to show how narrative methods provide useful tools for international business research. We do this by presenting a study of stories told about the collaboration between a Danish expatriate manager and his Chinese CEO in the Shanghai subsidiary of an MNE. First, we explain and exemplify how narrative interviews are designed and conducted. In this connection, we consider the interviewers' interaction with the interviewees, and clarify our reasons for focusing on ...
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作者：Sebastian Reiche, B.; Kraimer, Maria L.; Harzing, Anne-Wil
作者单位：University of Navarra; IESE Business School; University of Iowa; University of Melbourne
摘要：We apply an organizational embeddedness perspective to examine international assignees' retention with the organization. Specifically, we hypothesize that assignees' social ties within and their perceived fit with the host unit positively relate to two sacrifices on leaving the organization: their firm-specific learning during the assignment, and their perceived career prospects in the organization. Perceived career prospects are expected to predict subsequent retention, moderated by firm-spec...
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作者：Qi, Yaxuan; Roth, Lukas; Wald, John K.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio; Concordia University - Canada; University of Alberta
摘要：We examine how country-level legal and institutional investor protection shapes contractual creditor protection. We examine debt covenant information from foreign corporate bonds issued in the US from more than 50 countries between 1991 and 2007. We find that bonds of firms incorporated in countries with stronger creditor rights use fewer covenants. This finding suggests that creditor protection substitutes for covenants in reducing the agency cost of debt. In contrast, bonds of firms with str...
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作者：Crilly, Donal
作者单位：University of London; London Business School
摘要：As the reach of corporations increasingly extends across borders, a key research question is whether overseas subsidiaries adopt a shareholder-centric orientation, centered on maximizing shareholder wealth, or a stakeholder-centric orientation, centered on creating value for a broader range of stakeholders. Existing theories, addressing the corporate level of analysis, focus on forces exogenous to the firm: local resource pressures, and institutional norms. Using a combination of induction and...
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作者：Welch, Catherine; Piekkari, Rebecca; Plakoyiannaki, Emmanuella; Paavilainen-Mantymaki, Eriikka
作者单位：Aalto University; University of Sydney; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; University of Turku
摘要：The literature on case studies, both in the field of international business (IB) and in the social sciences more generally, has tended to focus on the methods of data production and analysis suited to this research strategy. In contrast, in this paper we investigate methods of theorising from case studies. We seek to understand how case researchers theorise, and how future IB research might utilise case studies for theorising. By means of a qualitative content analysis of case studies publishe...
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作者：Sharma, Piyush
作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：Despite growing evidence about differences in the attitudes and behaviors of consumers in emerging and developed markets, there is little research on the differences in country of origin (COO) effects on their evaluation, behavioral intentions (BIs), and actual purchase of imported products. This paper introduces a new conceptual framework incorporating consumer ethnocentrism (CET), materialism (MAT), and value consciousness (VC) to hypothesize several differences in the influence of COO effec...
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作者：Jiang, Crystal X.; Chua, Roy Yj; Kotabe, Masaaki; Murray, Janet Y.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; Bryant University; Harvard University; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Saint Louis
摘要：We investigate trust relationships between senior business executives and their overseas partners. Drawing on the similarity-attraction paradigm, social categorization theory, and the distinction between cognition- and affect-based trust, we argue that executives trust their overseas partners differently, depending on the partners' cultural ethnicity. In a field survey of 108 Chinese senior executives, we found that these executives have higher affect-based trust in overseas partners of the sa...
