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作者:Delmestri, Giuseppe; Wezel, Filippo Carlo
作者单位:University of Bergamo; Universita della Svizzera Italiana; Tilburg University
摘要:Organizational forms imbued with values of modernity that is, rationality, efficiency and equity diffuse rapidly around the world. Nonetheless, when sustained by beliefs, norms and regulations contrasting with those prevalent in the receiving country, their adoption may be delayed, and within-country legitimation may not proceed smoothly. We study the diffusion of multiplex cinemas a form conceived in the US and attuned to the cinema-as-commerce logic across Europe, where the cinema-as-art log...
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作者:Balogun, Julia; Jarzabkowski, Paula; Vaara, Eero
作者单位:Lancaster University; Aston University; Hanken School of Economics; emlyon business school
摘要:Studies of political dynamics between multinational enterprise (MNE) parents and subsidiaries during subsidiary role evolution have focused largely on control and resistance. This paper adopts a critical discursive approach to enable an exploration of subtle dynamics in the way that both headquarters and subsidiaries subjectively reconstruct their independent-interdependent relationships with each other during change. We draw from a real-time qualitative study of a revealing case of charter ch...
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作者:Kanagaretnam, Kiridaran; Lim, Chee Yeow; Lobo, Gerald J.
作者单位:McMaster University; Singapore Management University; University of Houston System; University of Houston; McMaster University
摘要:We examine the relation between four dimensions of national culture and earnings quality of banks using a sample of banks from 39 countries. Our main analysis, which focuses on the pre-financial crisis period 1993-2006, indicates that banks in high individualism, high masculinity, and low uncertainty avoidance societies manage earnings to just-meet-or-beat the prior year's earnings. In tests of income smoothing through loan loss provisions, we find that banks in high individualism, high power ...
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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...
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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 ...