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作者：Burgelman, Robert A.
作者单位：Stanford University
摘要：Longitudinal qualitative research combining grounded theorizing and insights from modern historical methods can generate novel conceptual frameworks that establish theoretical bridges between historical narratives and reductionist quantitative models. To capitalize fully on this potential theory-bridging role, qualitative scholars should seek to study social systems characterized by complexity and nonlinear causation. Effectively serving this theory-bridging role provides a basis for securing ...
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作者：Hillier, David; Pindado, Julio; de Queiroz, Valdoceu; de la Torre, Chabela
作者单位：University of Strathclyde; University of Salamanca
摘要：We investigate the process through which country-level corporate governance facilitates firm-level investment in research and development (R&D). Taking cash flow as one of the main determinants of R&D, we derive an econometric model that introduces a number of corporate governance factors (legal protection, financial system, and control mechanisms) to analyze their impact on R&D-cash flow sensitivity. Using data from nine European Union countries, Japan, and the United States, we show that R&D...
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作者：Jonsson, Anna; Foss, Nicolai J.
作者单位：Lund University; Copenhagen Business School; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
摘要：Business organizations may expand internationally by replicating a part of their value chain, such as a sales and marketing format, in other countries. However, little is known regarding how such international replicators build a format for replication, or how they can adjust it in order to adapt to local environments and under the impact of new learning. To illuminate these issues, we draw on a longitudinal in-depth study of Swedish home furnishing giant IKEA, involving more than 70 interview...
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作者：Golovko, Elena; Valentini, Giovanni
作者单位：Bocconi University; Tilburg University; Tilburg University
摘要：In this paper, we advance and test the idea that innovation and export are complementary strategies for SMEs' growth. We argue that innovation and export positively reinforce each other in a dynamic virtuous circle, and we identify and describe the process through which this complementarity relationship takes place. Participating in export markets can promote firms' learning, and thus enhance innovation performance. At the same time, through innovation, firms can enter new geographical markets...
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作者：Nachum, Lilach; Song, Sangyoung
作者单位：City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY)
摘要：We conceptualize the MNE as a portfolio of interdependent sub-units, and examine its growth trajectory in relation to its existing portfolio. The empirical testing is based on a unique dataset that details all the location moves of US legal services MNEs during 1949-2006. These MNEs evolve in directions that follow from their past. Their portfolios affect their subsequent moves, speaking for the impact of interdependencies among sub-units on the evolution of MNEs. The portfolio exercises stron...
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作者：Caprar, Dan V.
作者单位：University of New South Wales Sydney
摘要：Multinational corporations (MNCs) rely heavily on local employees when conducting their international operations, yet the international business literature provides few instances of true focus on these employees. The commonly used label host-country nationals (HCNs) confers them an identity strongly related to the culture of their country, prompting both researchers and practitioners to know them through the knowledge about the local culture. This paper provides evidence that a more sophistica...
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作者：Singh, Jagdip; Lentz, Patrick; Nijssen, Edwin J.
作者单位：Eindhoven University of Technology; University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; Dortmund University of Technology
摘要：Consumers' conceptions of a market's institutional logic affect mechanisms of firm-consumer relationships, but are generally neglected in comparative studies of international marketing. This study bridges institutional and relationship marketing theories to examine two questions: do consumers hold meaningful mental models of a market's institutional logics, and do these mental models explain differentiated patterns of market relationships across international contexts? Building on contract-rel...
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作者：Cassiman, Bruno; Golovko, Elena
作者单位：University of Navarra; IESE Business School; KU Leuven; Tilburg University; Tilburg University
摘要：Successful product innovation leads to the decision by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to enter the export market. We argue that in addition to a direct effect of innovation on exports, product innovation, through its effect on firm productivity, increases the likelihood of the firm entering the export market. Using a panel of Spanish manufacturing firms, we show that the strong positive association found between firm productivity and exports in the literature relates to the firm's earlier...
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作者：Balogun, Julia; Jarzabkowski, Paula; Vaara, Eero
作者单位：Lancaster University; Aston University; Hanken School of Economics; emlyon business school
摘要：Studies of political dynamics between multinational enterprise (MNE) parents and subsidiaries during subsidiary role evolution have focused largely on control and resistance. This paper adopts a critical discursive approach to enable an exploration of subtle dynamics in the way that both headquarters and subsidiaries subjectively reconstruct their independent-interdependent relationships with each other during change. We draw from a real-time qualitative study of a revealing case of charter ch...
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作者：Cull, Robert; Haber, Stephen; Imai, Masami
作者单位：The World Bank; Stanford University; Stanford University; Wesleyan University
摘要：Does related lending have positive or negative effects on the development of banking systems? We analyze a unique cross-country data set covering 74 countries from 1990 to 2007, and find that related lending, on average, does not have any effect on the growth of credit. We do find, however, that there are conditional relationships: related lending tends to retard the growth of banking systems when rule of law is weak, whereas it tends to promote the growth of banking systems when rule of law i...
