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作者：Danis, WM; Parkhe, A
作者单位：Marquette University; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：International cooperative ventures (ICVs) are known to be strongly influenced by the parent firms' values, practices, and systems (VPSs). However, less clear is whether and why VPSs actually adopted by and ICV are those of either parent singly, both parents jointly, or neither parent. This question is especially timely in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe, where cooperative activity with Western multinationals is growing rapidly, and where decades-old legacies of communism...
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作者：Zhang, Y; Rajagopalan, N
作者单位：Rice University; University of Southern California
摘要：We use an infinitely repeated prisoner's dilemma model to examine the role of inter-partner credible threat in international joint ventures (IJVs). Inter-partner credible threat refers to the certainty of either partner's retaliation given the other partner's earlier cheating. We argue that inter-partner credible threat represents the first order determinant and partners' management control represents the second order determinant of partner payoffs. When inter-partner credible threat is presen...
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作者：Lau, CM; Tse, DK; Zhou, N
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of Hong Kong; Peking University; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：This paper examines the effects of institutional forces on change schemas of senior managers, mid-level managers and front-line workers of different types of firms in China. We postulate that several socio-economic forces including regional economic prosperity, firm type (state-owned and foreign-invested), within-firm ranks, and organizational cultures are at work. The cognitive differences among people in local and foreign firms operating in similar contexts are examined. Through a survey of ...
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作者：Maignan, I; Ralston, DA
作者单位：Radboud University Nijmegen; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：The paper compares the extent and content of businesses' communications about corporate social responsibility (CSR) in France, the Netherlands, the U.K., and the U.S. In particular, the study investigates the nature of CSR principles, processes, and stakeholder issues discussed in web pages. The results show that businesses in the four countries do not display the same eagerness to appear as socially responsible and employ diverse means to convey social responsibility images.
