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作者：Coeurderoy, Rgis; Murray, Gordon
作者单位：Universite Catholique Louvain; University of Exeter
摘要：New-technology-based firms (NTBFs) embarking on a strategy of rapid internationalisation choose foreign market entries that minimise transaction costs and the related risks of failure. Means to reduce the young firms' vulnerability to the appropriation of intellectual capital are particularly important influences on early foreign market choices. We explore the effect of the institutional dimension, specifically the national regulatory environment, on the location choices and the speed of inter...
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作者：Luk, Chung-Leung; Yau, Oliver H. M.; Sin, Leo Y. M.; Tse, Alan C. B.; Chow, Raymond P. M.; Lee, Jenny S. Y.
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; Chinese University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong Metropolitan University; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：This paper examines how social capital and organizational innovativeness influence business performance through their separate, indirect, or interactive effects, and how these effects differ across the institutional contexts of a transition economy and a market economy. In line with institutional theory, our findings show that the effects of social capital are more extensive and probably more malignant in a transition economy than in a market economy. Furthermore, different types of organizati...
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作者：Clougherty, Joseph A.; Grajek, Michal
作者单位：Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; European School of Management & Technology
摘要：The effects of ISO 9000 diffusion on trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) have gone understudied. We employ panel data reported by OECD nations over the 1995-2002 period to estimate the impact of ISO adoptions on country-pair economic relations. We find ISO diffusion to have no effect in developed nations, but to positively pull FDI (i.e., enhancing inward FDI) and positively push trade (i.e., enhancing exports) in developing nations.
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作者：Cuervo-Cazurra, Alvaro
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：This paper analyzes the effectiveness of laws against bribery abroad in inducing foreign investors to reduce their investments in corrupt countries. The laws are designed to reduce the supply of bribes by foreign investors by increasing the costs of bribing abroad. Such increase in costs will make foreign investors more sensitive to corruption, and induce them to reduce their investments in corrupt countries. However, the paper argues that these laws need to be implemented and coordinated in m...
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作者：Delios, Andrew; Xu, Dean; Beamish, Paul W.
作者单位：National University of Singapore; University of Hong Kong; Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要：We examine the product diversification of a multinational firm within each of its host-country markets. Based on a sample of 12,992 foreign subsidiaries of Japanese multinational firms, we find that higher levels of within-country product diversity led to higher subsidiary performance where the institutional strength of the local market was weak, and where a firm's corporate product diversity level was high. Our study highlights the importance of examining a multinational firm's strategy in it...
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作者：Jackson, Gregory; Deeg, Richard
作者单位：University of London; King's College London; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：This paper examines the role of institutional analysis within the field of international business (IB) studies. Within IB, institutions matter, but the view of institutions tends to be thin, utilizing summary indicators rather than detailed description, and thus approaches institutions as unidimensional ''variables that impact on particular facets of business activity. This paper argues that IB research would be usefully advanced by greater attention to comparing the topography of institutiona...
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作者：Bowen, Harry P.; De Clercq, Dirk
作者单位：Brock University
摘要：The type of activity in which entrepreneurs engage is likely to influence the potential contribution of entrepreneurship to economic growth and prosperity. Yet the entrepreneurship literature has focused largely on identifying the determinants of the level, rather than the type, of entrepreneurial activity. In this paper we hypothesize that a country's institutional environment will influence the allocation of entrepreneurial effort, and in particular will influence the extent to which entrepr...
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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, ...
