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作者：Lewin, Arie Y.; Massini, Silvia; Peeters, Carine
作者单位：Duke University; University of Manchester; Solvay SA
摘要：This paper empirically studies determinants of decision by companies to offshore innovation activities. It uses survey data from the international Offshoring Research Network project to estimate the impact of managerial intentionality, past experience, and environmental factors on the probability of offshoring innovation projects. The results show that the emerging shortage of highly skilled science and engineering talent in the US and, more generally, the need to access qualified personnel ar...
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作者：Fang, Eric (Er); Zou, Shaoming
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia
摘要：The influence of firms' dynamic capabilities on performance has been well articulated in the strategy literature. Yet conceptualization and operationalization of dynamic capabilities in marketing function have not been attempted, and empirical evidence substantiating the effect of dynamic capabilities is scarce. This research develops a conceptualization of marketing dynamic capabilities (MDCs), investigates their development in international joint ventures (IJVs), and explores their effect on...
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作者：Eden, Lorraine
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作者：Durnev, Art; Errunza, Vihang; Molchanov, Alexander
作者单位：McGill University; Massey University
摘要：In countries with secure property rights, corporate transparency improves investment efficiency and increases growth by alleviating information asymmetry. However, in countries with insecure property rights, greater transparency can increase the risk of government expropriation. Therefore some firms that would benefit most from transparency cannot take full advantage of it, as they set sub-optimal transparency levels. Using data from 59 industries in 69 countries, we find that in countries wit...
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作者：Meyer, Klaus E.; Sinani, Evis
作者单位：University of Bath; Copenhagen Business School
摘要：Local firms may attract productivity spillovers from foreign investors, yet these vary with local firms' awareness, capability and motivation to react to foreign entry. In consequence, spillovers vary across countries at different levels of economic development. We apply competitive dynamics theory to analyze these contextual moderators of spillovers, and test hypotheses thus derived in a meta-analysis of the empirical literature on spillovers. Our analysis suggests a curvilinear relationship ...
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作者：Townsend, Janell D.; Yeniyurt, Sengun; Talay, Mehmet Berk
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Oakland University; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal
摘要：The globalization of brands is an evolutionary process that is determined by environmental and firm-level factors, including a brand's position in the firm's global brand architecture. A framework is developed incorporating aspects of environmental uncertainty, mimetic behavior, and experiential learning as they relate to the globalization of brands. Global brand architecture is introduced as an important strategic consideration of a brand's position and stage of internationalization. The hypo...
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作者：Doh, Jonathan P.; Bunyaratavej, Kraiwinee; Hahn, Eugene D.
作者单位：Villanova University; University System of Maryland; Salisbury University
摘要：In this paper we explore the question of why firms offshore particular services to specific geographic locations. We draw on research related to the unique characteristics of services in trade and commerce, and more recent analyses of the transnational unbundling and spatial dispersion of business processes. We move beyond a simple assessment of the cost sensitivity or relative sophistication of offshoring services and develop a typology emphasizing the degree to which offshoring services acti...
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作者：Kenney, Martin; Massini, Silvia; Murtha, Thomas P.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; University of California System; University of California Davis; University of Manchester
摘要：In this paper, we introduce the Journal of International Business Studies Special Issue on Offshoring Administrative and Technical Services (ATS). In doing so, we have attempted to locate the topic within the international business research tradition, as well as suggest challenges and opportunities that the phenomenon offers to theoretical and empirical research in the field. We examine the interplay of costs, knowledge, and innovation in the evolution of ATS offshoring from modest beginnings ...
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作者：Boubakri, Narjess; Cosset, Jean-Claude; Smaoui, Houcem
作者单位：Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; American University of Sharjah
摘要：This paper investigates the link between privatization and emerging market sovereign bond spreads. We conjecture that the way privatization is implemented may help to build a favorable market sentiment by gradually building investor confidence, which should then lead to a lower required compensation for policy risk. Controlling for other determinants of sovereign bond spreads, we find that privatization proceeds do not affect spreads, while privatization progress and share issues reduce spread...
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作者：Noorderhaven, Niels; Harzing, Anne-Wil
作者单位：Tilburg University; University of Melbourne
摘要：Social interaction between managers from different units of a multinational enterprise (MNE) has been shown to be an important factor stimulating intra-MNE knowledge-sharing. Face-to-face social interactions form a communication channel particularly conducive to the transfer of tacit, non-codified knowledge. But intensive social interaction also provides opportunities for social construction of knowledge in a learning dialogue. The first explanation (sender-receiver) makes us expect social int...
