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作者：Lyles, Marjorie A.; Salk, Jane E.
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Indianapolis; ESSEC Business School
摘要：In this paper, we examine organizational characteristics, structural mechanisms and contextual factors that influence knowledge acquisition from the foreign parent in international joint ventures (IJVs). We in turn relate assessments of knowledge acquisition to IJV performance. The data come from a survey of IJVs in the Hungarian context, where learning and knowledge acquisition from the foreign parent is thought to be particularly critical. Adaptation mechanisms, such as capacity to learn, ar...
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作者：Shin, Shung J.; Morgeson, Frederick P.; Campion, Michael A.
作者单位：Washington State University; Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：To empirically address the importance of the cultural context for successful assignments, we conducted two studies using a large sample of public-sector US professionals working in comparable jobs in 156 different countries. The results provided direct evidence that social and perceptual skill, reasoning ability, and adjustment- and achievement-orientation personality requirements are higher in expatriate assignments, which has implications for pre-departure selection. Also, the results partly...
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作者：Knight, John G.; Holdsworth, David K.; Mather, Damien W.
作者单位：University of Otago
摘要：Country-of-origin preferences of distribution channel gatekeepers when sourcing food imports were investigated using in-depth interviews in five European markets. Channel member perceptions of product-country image related more to specific issues of confidence and trust in integrity of production, certification and regulatory systems than to country image stereotypes. This study integrates these trust-determining factors with price-perceived value constructs in order to build a comprehensive m...
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作者：Lau, Victor P.; Shaffer, Margaret A.; Au, Kevin
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
摘要：We conducted a series of studies to conceptualize, operationalize, and validate entrepreneurial career success from a Chinese perspective. For Study 1, we defined constructs based on interpretations of Hong Kong entrepreneurs. In Study 2 (Hong Kong entrepreneurs) and Study 3 (Shanghai entrepreneurs and their employees), we developed and validated measures. Guided primarily by social identity theory, we mapped the criterion space and tested etic and emic predictors of career success.
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作者：Dunning, John H.; Fujita, Masataka; Yakova, Nevena
作者单位：University of Reading; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick
摘要：This paper critiques an earlier contribution by Rugman and Verbeke (2004); and it does so by considering the global distribution of foreign direct investment (FDI). It also adds several new dimensions to the regionalisation/ globalisation debate, noticeably by (i) the incorporation of inward multinational enterprise (MNE) activity, (ii) evaluating changes in the geography of FDI between 1990 and 2003, and (iii) the introduction of the concept of revealed investment comparative advantage (RICA)...
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作者：Kotabe, Masaaki; Parente, Ronaldo; Murray, Janet Y.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Saint Louis; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Camden
摘要：Our paper focuses on how foreign automobile manufacturers in Brazil have implemented and benefited from strategic modularization. Based on our case studies and in-depth interviews, we developed a theoretical framework to examine the antecedents and outcomes of strategic modularization. Our theoretical framework suggests that strategic modularization may help improve a firm's positional advantage by reducing the cost of managing tacit knowledge. In addition, the adoption of strategic modulariza...
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作者：Sanna-Randaccio, Francesca; Veugelers, Reinhilde
作者单位：KU Leuven
摘要：This paper provides a theoretical model of the trade-offs that an MNE faces when organising its R & D as decentralised or centralised. R & D decentralisation avoids having to adapt centrally developed innovations to local markets, being able to use the specific know-how of the subsidiary. In addition R & D subsidiaries can be used to source locally available external know-how. At the same time, however, R & D internationalisation intensifies the spillover of valuable know-how to competitors lo...
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作者：Tian, Xiaowen
作者单位：University of Nottingham
摘要：Using a set of panel data of 11,324 firms in China from 1996 to 1999, the paper finds that positive technology spillovers from FIEs to domestic firms occur through tangible assets rather than intangible assets, through domestically consumed products rather than exported products, through 'traditional' products rather than new products, and through FIEs employing unskilled workers rather than FIEs employing skilled workers. FIEs are found to generate negative spillovers through exports and thro...
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作者：Aguilera, Ruth V.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：In this essay, I critically review the 2006 JIBS Decade Award article by Lyles and Salk 'Knowledge acquisition from foreign parents in international joint ventures (IJVs): An empirical examination in the Hungarian context'. This article develops theoretical arguments and empirically tests a two-stage research question: (1) What are the organizational characteristics and structural mechanisms between IJV parents that influence knowledge acquisition from the foreign parent, and (2) what is the r...
