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作者：Domadenik, Polona; Prasnikar, Janez; Svejnar, Jan
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Ljubljana; University of Ljubljana
摘要：We develop a theoretical framework for defensive and strategic restructuring, and provide estimates of restructuring in privatized firms in an advanced transition economy: Slovenia. Our rich data point to both types of restructuring, as well credit rationing and bargaining with respect to investment. Privatized firms display profit-maximizing behavior, and a firm's export orientation and institutional features, such as insider vs outsider privatization, employee ownership, and employee control...
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作者：Orr, Ryan J.; Scott, W. Richard
作者单位：Stanford University
摘要：This inductive study offers an examination of 23 cases in which informants from firms engaged in large-scale global projects reported unforeseen costs after failing to comprehend cognitive-cultural, normative, and/or regulative institutions in an unfamiliar host societal context. The study builds on the conceptual framework of institutional theory. The findings, which include propositions and a generic narrative model, contribute to theoretical knowledge of how institutional exceptions arise, ...
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作者：Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark; Gooderham, Paul; Nordhaug, Odd
作者单位：Open University - UK; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
摘要：We explore determinants of subsidiary autonomy in setting human resource management (HRM) practices within US-parented multinational enterprises (MNEs), in Europe and Australia. We examine both the effect of strategic context and the effect of the institutional location of the subsidiary. We find that US MNEs show greater centralisation of control over HRM where the subsidiary faces global markets, in coordinated market economies vs liberal market economies, and where union density is low.
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作者：Carraher, Shawn M.; Sullivan, Sherry E.; Crocitto, Madeline M.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Bowling Green State University; State University of New York (SUNY) System; SUNY Old Westbury
摘要：There has long been an interest in the effects of mentors on protege career outcomes, and with scholars now beginning to examine mentoring across national boundaries. Using survey information as well as company records for 299 expatriates (163 men, 136 women) in 10 countries, we examined the impact of home- and host-country mentors upon expatriate effectiveness. We found that having a host-country mentor had a significant positive effect on the expatriate's organizational knowledge, organizati...
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作者：Kolk, Ans; Pinkse, Jonatan
作者单位：University of Amsterdam
摘要：This paper explores whether and how an important environmental issue such as climate change can not only give multinational enterprises the opportunity to develop green'' firm-specific advantages (FSAs), but also help reconfigure key FSAs that are viewed as the main sources of firms' profitability, growth, and survival. We examine the nature and geography of such FSA development, and develop two organizing frameworks, which are subsequently applied to climate change, using information from Glo...
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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：Multinationals can start up greenfield entities or acquire existing firms to enter foreign nations. Regardless of the choice of greenfield investment vs acquisition, they can control full equity (i.e., wholly owned subsidiaries) or share ownership with local partners (i.e., joint ventures). Depending on the stake taken in the targets, therefore, international acquisitions can be classified into two major categories - full or partial - although this distinction is missing in most previous studi...
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作者：Ellis, Paul D.
作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：An analysis of 924 foreign market entries made by a sample of Chinese exporters reveals that psychic distance moderates the relationship between foreign market size and entry sequence. In doing so, this study challenges the extant hypothesis that the establishment of foreign operations conforms to a simple pattern of increasing psychic distance to markets. The findings also reveal that psychic distance is asymmetrical in nature, and that assessments made by sellers and their buyers are inheren...
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作者：Lages, Luis Filipe; Jap, Sandy D.; Griffith, David A.
作者单位：Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Emory University; Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business
摘要：This paper employs organizational learning theory to examine the short-term effect of past export performance, and internal (management) and external (market) forces on marketing strategy adaptation and current export performance. Results from a survey of over 500 export managers indicate that current-period performance improvement (in terms of performance achievement, export intensity, and performance satisfaction in the current year) is influenced by the firm's commitment to exporting. Furth...
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作者：Coucke, Kristien; Sleuwaegen, Leo
作者单位：Universite Catholique Louvain; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要：This paper analyzes the impact of globalization on the exit behavior of manufacturing firms in Belgium. Imports from low-wage countries are found to exert a strong competitive effect, which raises the likelihood of exit of firms in industries where intra-industry trade is relatively low. Similar to import competition, growing penetration by multinational firms in the industry has an equally strong competitive impact on the likelihood of exit of domestic firms. However, Belgian firms that offsh...
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作者：Verbeke, Alain; Kenworthy, Thomas P.
作者单位：University of Calgary; University of Oxford
摘要：The effective and efficient management of diversified business firms that supply multiple products and operate in multiple, dynamic markets, especially large multinational enterprises (MNEs), builds upon a number of specific governance principles. These governance principles allow the alignment of environmental characteristics, strategy and organization. Given the rising need to learn from the world, Doz et al., in their influential Harvard Business School Press book entitled From Global to Me...
