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作者：Gertsen, Martine Cardel; Soderberg, Anne-Marie
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School
摘要：The objective of this article is to show how narrative methods provide useful tools for international business research. We do this by presenting a study of stories told about the collaboration between a Danish expatriate manager and his Chinese CEO in the Shanghai subsidiary of an MNE. First, we explain and exemplify how narrative interviews are designed and conducted. In this connection, we consider the interviewers' interaction with the interviewees, and clarify our reasons for focusing on ...
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作者：Sebastian Reiche, B.; Kraimer, Maria L.; Harzing, Anne-Wil
作者单位：University of Navarra; IESE Business School; University of Iowa; University of Melbourne
摘要：We apply an organizational embeddedness perspective to examine international assignees' retention with the organization. Specifically, we hypothesize that assignees' social ties within and their perceived fit with the host unit positively relate to two sacrifices on leaving the organization: their firm-specific learning during the assignment, and their perceived career prospects in the organization. Perceived career prospects are expected to predict subsequent retention, moderated by firm-spec...
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作者：Qi, Yaxuan; Roth, Lukas; Wald, John K.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio; Concordia University - Canada; University of Alberta
摘要：We examine how country-level legal and institutional investor protection shapes contractual creditor protection. We examine debt covenant information from foreign corporate bonds issued in the US from more than 50 countries between 1991 and 2007. We find that bonds of firms incorporated in countries with stronger creditor rights use fewer covenants. This finding suggests that creditor protection substitutes for covenants in reducing the agency cost of debt. In contrast, bonds of firms with str...
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作者：Crilly, Donal
作者单位：University of London; London Business School
摘要：As the reach of corporations increasingly extends across borders, a key research question is whether overseas subsidiaries adopt a shareholder-centric orientation, centered on maximizing shareholder wealth, or a stakeholder-centric orientation, centered on creating value for a broader range of stakeholders. Existing theories, addressing the corporate level of analysis, focus on forces exogenous to the firm: local resource pressures, and institutional norms. Using a combination of induction and...
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作者：Welch, Catherine; Piekkari, Rebecca; Plakoyiannaki, Emmanuella; Paavilainen-Mantymaki, Eriikka
作者单位：Aalto University; University of Sydney; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; University of Turku
摘要：The literature on case studies, both in the field of international business (IB) and in the social sciences more generally, has tended to focus on the methods of data production and analysis suited to this research strategy. In contrast, in this paper we investigate methods of theorising from case studies. We seek to understand how case researchers theorise, and how future IB research might utilise case studies for theorising. By means of a qualitative content analysis of case studies publishe...
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作者：Sharma, Piyush
作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：Despite growing evidence about differences in the attitudes and behaviors of consumers in emerging and developed markets, there is little research on the differences in country of origin (COO) effects on their evaluation, behavioral intentions (BIs), and actual purchase of imported products. This paper introduces a new conceptual framework incorporating consumer ethnocentrism (CET), materialism (MAT), and value consciousness (VC) to hypothesize several differences in the influence of COO effec...
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作者：Jiang, Crystal X.; Chua, Roy Yj; Kotabe, Masaaki; Murray, Janet Y.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; Bryant University; Harvard University; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Saint Louis
摘要：We investigate trust relationships between senior business executives and their overseas partners. Drawing on the similarity-attraction paradigm, social categorization theory, and the distinction between cognition- and affect-based trust, we argue that executives trust their overseas partners differently, depending on the partners' cultural ethnicity. In a field survey of 108 Chinese senior executives, we found that these executives have higher affect-based trust in overseas partners of the sa...
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作者：Vaaler, Paul M.
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Despite the increasing importance of financial and social remittances to developing countries, their impact on home-country venture-investing environments has been largely overlooked. I develop a framework grounded in transaction costs economics and social knowledge theories to investigate relationships between remittances and home-country (1) capital availability, (2) new business creation, and (3) economic internationalization. My framework also accounts for individual and collective immigra...
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作者：Haxhi, Ilir; van Ees, Hans
作者单位：University of Groningen; University of Amsterdam
摘要：Extending earlier literature on diffusion of codes of good governance (CGGs) by integrating the effect of national culture, this study offers a novel perspective on cross-national diversity in the worldwide diffusion of corporate governance best practices. We argue that particular cultural dimensions affect the indicators (i.e., total number of codes per country and identity of issuing organizations) of such diffusion. For a sample of 67 countries our analysis reveals that individualist cultur...
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作者：Schneider, Martin R.; Schulze-Bentrop, Conrad; Paunescu, Mihai
作者单位：University of Paderborn; SAS Institute Inc
摘要：We examine how institutional configurations, not single institutions, provide companies with institutional capital. Building on the varieties-of-capitalism approach, it is argued that competitive advantage in high-tech industries with radical innovation may be supported by combinations of certain institutional conditions: lax employment protection, weak collective bargaining coverage, extensive university training, little occupational training, and a large stock market. Furthermore, multinatio...
