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作者：Doz, Yves
作者单位：INSEAD Business School
摘要：Qualitative research in international business has been rare, the main research streams of the field relying more on quantitative methods. This paper first outlines why qualitative research has been scant. It then presents areas, such as theory building, where qualitative research could make a substantial contribution. Third, it reviews approaches to high standards of qualitative research and criteria for evaluating qualitative research. Finally, some possible research areas where qualitative ...
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作者：Makino, Shige; Tsang, Eric W. K.
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Recent research suggests that the distance between countries in terms of culture, institutions, geographic proximity, and economic development matters in the foreign direct investment (FDI) decisions made by firms. This study focuses on the historical ties between countries as an additional factor affecting such decisions. In particular, it examines three major historical factors that affect cross-country ties with Vietnam, namely, Chinese occupation and conflict, French colonization, and soci...
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作者：Fung, Hung-Gay; Yau, Jot; Zhang, Gaiyan
作者单位：University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Saint Louis; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Saint Louis; Seattle University
摘要：This study uses reported trade figures from China and Hong Kong to examine the relationships among market impediments, trade figure irregularities, and tax-induced regulatory arbitrage. The empirical findings, consistent with our tax-induced regulatory arbitrage models and the round-tripping phenomenon in China (that is, moving funds across the Mainland Chinese border through trade, typically to Hong Kong or an offshore tax haven, before re-entering China as foreign direct investment), provide...
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作者：Ciabuschi, Francesco; Forsgren, Mats; Martin Martin, Oscar
作者单位：Uppsala University; Universidad Publica de Navarra
摘要：Innovation processes in multinational enterprises (MNE) are largely context specific, and carried out at the subsidiary level. Therefore, corporate headquarters (HQ) involvement in these processes becomes a major issue. A typical assumption in international business (IB) theory is that HQ based on its own knowledge, makes rational choices about its own involvement. However, according to some studies, HQ involvement can be assumed to be less rational, in the sense that it reflects not HQ knowle...
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作者：Santangelo, Grazia D.; Meyer, Klaus E.
作者单位：University of Bath; University of Catania; China Europe International Business School
摘要：The internationalization process model suggests that firms internationalize by building positions in foreign markets and networks, following iterative cycles of learning and changes in commitment. However, as subsidiaries evolve, commitments may be decreased as well as increased, a phenomenon that has rarely been studied. Moreover, it remains an open question why strategic intentions at the outset of an investment project differ from the actual operations established. We address these question...
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作者：Yagi, Noriko; Kleinberg, Jill
作者单位：Butler University; University of Kansas
摘要：The complexity of global organizations highlights the importance of members' ability to span diverse boundaries that may be defined by organization structures, national borders, and/or a variety of cultures associated with organization, nation-based societal and work cultures, industries, and/or professions. Based on ethnographic research in a Japan-US binational firm, the paper describes and analyzes the boundary role performance of the firm's Japanese members. It contributes toward theory on...
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作者：Di Minin, Alberto; Bianchi, Mattia
作者单位：Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Stockholm School of Economics
摘要：This paper documents the case of the wireless telecom industry to bring new empirical evidence to the debate on the internationalization of research and development (R&D) activities. US patent statistics on the four industry leaders Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia and Qualcomm - illustrate the growing trend of the internationalization of R&D over the 1990s, yet we show that the most critical R&D projects related to the development of wireless standards remain homebound. The paper then leverages qual...
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作者：Moore, Fiona
作者单位：University of London; Royal Holloway University London
摘要：Ethnographic research in international business studies focuses mainly on small group case studies, ignoring other genres of ethnography and limiting its role. I argue, based on a study of BMW MINI, that holistic ethnography allows multiple perspectives on the organization, making it particularly useful for studying cross-border acquisitions. I analyze cross-cultural relationships in the organization, the interaction of manager and worker perspectives, and the expression of national identities...
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作者：Muethel, Miriam; Hoegl, Martin; Parboteeah, K. Praveen
作者单位：WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management; University of Wisconsin System
摘要：Employees' prosocial values have been shown to foster helping, cooperating, and volunteering behaviors, which in turn increase firm performance. However, despite the importance of prosocial values, there is a general neglect of this area in the international arena. As more trade occurs globally, interest in cross-cultural prosocial values is growing. We therefore build on socialization theory and introduce national business ideology as a country-level determinant of employees' prosocial values...
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作者：Hope, Ole-Kristian; Thomas, Wayne; Vyas, Dushyantkumar
作者单位：University of Toronto; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：Using an extensive panel of cross-border M&A transactions between 1990 and 2007, we find that firms from developing countries, compared with those from developed countries, bid higher on average to acquire assets in developed countries. We are interested in why these higher bids occur. We find that bids of firms from developing countries are higher-in cases where the transaction displays national pride characteristics, where national pride is identified through a manual examination of media ar...
