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作者：Arregle, Jean-Luc; Beamish, Paul W.; Hebert, Louis
作者单位：Universite Catholique de Lille; EDHEC Business School; Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal
摘要：This paper examines the regional effect of MNEs' foreign subsidiary localization. We hypothesize that the number of subsequent foreign subsidiaries in a country is in part determined by a firm's prior foreign subsidiary activity at the regional level. We test our hypotheses using data on 1076 Japanese MNEs that created 3466 foreign subsidiaries ( 1837 wholly owned FDIs and 1629 joint ventures) over the period 1996-2001. We use a multilevel negative binomial approach with three levels of analys...
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作者：Dunning, John H.
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; University of Reading
摘要：This article first traces the changing world economic scenario for international business over the past two decades, and then goes on to examine its implications for the location of foreign direct investment and multinational enterprise activity. It suggests that many of the explanations of the 1970s and early 1980s need to be modified as firm-specific assets have become mobile across natural boundaries. A final section of the article examines the dynamic interface between the value-added acti...
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作者：Buckley, Peter J.; Hashai, Niron
作者单位：University of Leeds; Hebrew University of Jerusalem
摘要：The paper presents a simple general equilibrium model that formalizes internationalization in the eclectic paradigm based on a reconfiguration of concepts taken from the new classical economics literature. The model enables us to address simultaneously the role of ownership, location and internalization advantages, and their interaction, in the emergence of the multinational enterprise (MNE) through a set of mathematical inequalities. Our model offers a bridge between the detached perceptions ...
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作者：Asmussen, Christian Geisler; Pedersen, Torben; Dhanaraj, Charles
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Indiana University System; Indiana University Indianapolis; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要：We extend the centers of excellence'' concept to address the diversity and multidimensionality of subsidiary competence. Using Rugman and Verbeke's diamond network model, we hypothesize the contingencies influencing the links between host-country environments and subsidiary competence configuration, and provide evidence from more than 2000 subsidiaries in seven European countries. Our results provide new insights into how multinational enterprises can overcome unbalanced'' national diamonds by...
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作者：Chen, Shih-Fen S.
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要：In this study, I take a transaction cost approach to explore the coincidence of private branding with offshore outsourcing - two retail trends that have attracted substantial attention but have never been analyzed concurrently. Retailers now play an increased role in marketing a product to shoppers, although their marketing efforts are usually specific to the supplier who brands the product. This is called brand specificity, a special case of asset specificity that drives up the cost of conduc...
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作者：Katsikeas, Constantine S.; Skarmeas, Dionysis; Bello, Daniel C.
作者单位：University of Leeds; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：Trust is a central construct in relationship marketing. Yet the literature provides mixed empirical evidence on the trust-performance linkage. Also, there is limited research on how to build trusting international buyer-seller relations. We develop a comprehensive model integrating performance-enhancing mechanisms and antecedent processes of trust in import-export relationships. Our survey results from importers trading with overseas manufacturers suggest that existing levels of trust have a p...
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作者：Bouquet, Cyril; Morrison, Allen; Birkinshaw, Julian
作者单位：International Institute for Management Development (IMD); INSEAD Business School; University of London; London Business School
摘要：This study examines the performance consequences of international attention, defined as the extent to which headquarters executives in the multinational enterprise (MNE) invest time and effort in activities, communications, and discussions aimed at improving their understanding of the global marketplace. Using detailed questionnaire and archival data on 135 MNEs, our analysis revealed three significant findings. First, international attention can be operationalized as a meta-construct that con...
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作者：Cantwell, John
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Newark
摘要：In the early development of the international business field, the focus of attention moved from the country level to the firm level, and interest in location issues declined. More recently, firm-based research has itself become increasingly concerned with the study of firm-location interactions. When examining two-way knowledge flows or spillovers between multinational enterprises (MNEs) and other actors in specific locations, the diversity or heterogeneity of firms matters, as does the divers...
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作者：Dunning, John H.
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; University of Reading
摘要：A retrospective by John H. Dunning on location and the MNE, written in the form of responses to questions posed by Rajneesh Narula in an interview recorded at the University of Reading which was shown at the JIBS Decade Award session at the AIB annual meetings in Milan, June 2008.
