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作者：Golovko, Elena; Valentini, Giovanni
作者单位：Bocconi University; Tilburg University; Tilburg University
摘要：In this paper, we advance and test the idea that innovation and export are complementary strategies for SMEs' growth. We argue that innovation and export positively reinforce each other in a dynamic virtuous circle, and we identify and describe the process through which this complementarity relationship takes place. Participating in export markets can promote firms' learning, and thus enhance innovation performance. At the same time, through innovation, firms can enter new geographical markets...
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作者：Nachum, Lilach; Song, Sangyoung
作者单位：City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY)
摘要：We conceptualize the MNE as a portfolio of interdependent sub-units, and examine its growth trajectory in relation to its existing portfolio. The empirical testing is based on a unique dataset that details all the location moves of US legal services MNEs during 1949-2006. These MNEs evolve in directions that follow from their past. Their portfolios affect their subsequent moves, speaking for the impact of interdependencies among sub-units on the evolution of MNEs. The portfolio exercises stron...
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作者：Cull, Robert; Haber, Stephen; Imai, Masami
作者单位：The World Bank; Stanford University; Stanford University; Wesleyan University
摘要：Does related lending have positive or negative effects on the development of banking systems? We analyze a unique cross-country data set covering 74 countries from 1990 to 2007, and find that related lending, on average, does not have any effect on the growth of credit. We do find, however, that there are conditional relationships: related lending tends to retard the growth of banking systems when rule of law is weak, whereas it tends to promote the growth of banking systems when rule of law i...
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作者：Fransson, Anders; Hakanson, Lars; Liesch, Peter W.
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; University of Queensland
摘要：In this note we revisit two core propositions of the knowledge-based view of the firm found in the seminal work of Kogut and Zander: (1) that multinational corporations (MNCs) exist because transfers and re-combinations of knowledge occur more efficiently inside MNCs than between MNCs and third parties; and (2) that the threat of opportunism is not necessary, although it may be sufficient, to explain the existence of the MNC. Their knowledge-based view shifted the conceptualization of the firm...
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作者：Jesus Nieto, Maria; Rodriguez, Alicia
作者单位：Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
摘要：The offshoring of knowledge services has become a phenomenon of increasing importance for firms, but many of its implications are yet to be discussed thoroughly. This paper analyzes whether R&D offshoring contributes to enhancing firms' innovation capabilities. Specifically, the study distinguishes between two governance models of offshoring - captive offshoring and offshore outsourcing - and two types of innovation outcomes - product and process innovations. We suggest that R&D offshoring has...
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作者：Sullivan, Daniel; Nerur, Sridhar P.; Balijepally, VenuGopal
作者单位：University of Delaware; University of Texas System; University of Texas Arlington; Texas A&M University System; Prairie View A&M University
摘要：The absence of systematic assessment of IB's performance as a reference discipline prolongs questioning of the contribution that IB scholarship makes to other business fields: put simply, do IB journals export more ideas to allied disciplines than they import from them? Difficulty in evaluating the merits of, let alone the need for, solutions offered to boost interdisciplinary relevance slows validation of the ontological principles and epistemic standards of IB research. This paper begins to ...
