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• The role of path dependency and managerial intentionality: a perspective on international business research AI翻译
  作者：Hutzschenreuter, Thomas; Pedersen, Torben; Volberda, Henk W.
  作者单位：WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management; Copenhagen Business School; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
• Beyond Gaussian averages: redirecting international business and management research toward extreme events and power caws AI翻译
  作者：Andriani, Pierpaolo; McKelvey, Bill
  作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Durham University
  摘要：Practicing managers live in a world of 'extremes', but international business and management research is based on Gaussian statistics that rule out such extremes. On occasion, positive feedback processes among interactive data points cause extreme events characterized by power laws. They seem ubiquitous; we list 80 kinds of them - half each among natural and social phenomena. We use imposed tension and Per Bak's 'self-organized criticality' to argue that Pareto-based science and statistics (ba...
• On the growth of foreign affiliates: multinational plant networks, joint ventures, and flexibility AI翻译
  作者：Belderbos, Rene; Zou, Jianglei
  作者单位：KU Leuven; Eindhoven University of Technology
  摘要：We take a flexibility perspective to analyse employment growth in a large sample of Japanese manufacturing affiliates in nine Asian countries during the ears leading up to and into the Asian financial crisis (11995-1999). We find that joint ventures are less flexible than wholly owned affiliates in responding to changing environmental conditions in the focal country, and underperform in high-growth environments. Multinational enterprises (MNES) use the flexibility created by their multinationa...
• Globalization and location choice: an analysis of US multinational firms in 1980 and 2000 AI翻译
  作者：Flores, Ricardo G.; Aguilera, Ruth V.
  作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  摘要：In this paper we examine foreign location choices of the top 100 US multinational corporations (MNCs) in 1980 and 2000. We first ask whether there has been a change in MNC foreign location choice in this two-decade period. Second, we explore the underlying reasons of location change by focusing on country-level factors, accounting for firm-, industry- and regional-level explanations. Our findings suggest, first, that the extent of MNCs' activities around the globe is more extensive than assume...