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作者：Townsend, Janell D.; Yeniyurt, Sengun; Talay, Mehmet Berk
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Oakland University; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal
摘要：The globalization of brands is an evolutionary process that is determined by environmental and firm-level factors, including a brand's position in the firm's global brand architecture. A framework is developed incorporating aspects of environmental uncertainty, mimetic behavior, and experiential learning as they relate to the globalization of brands. Global brand architecture is introduced as an important strategic consideration of a brand's position and stage of internationalization. The hypo...
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作者：Doh, Jonathan P.; Bunyaratavej, Kraiwinee; Hahn, Eugene D.
作者单位：Villanova University; University System of Maryland; Salisbury University
摘要：In this paper we explore the question of why firms offshore particular services to specific geographic locations. We draw on research related to the unique characteristics of services in trade and commerce, and more recent analyses of the transnational unbundling and spatial dispersion of business processes. We move beyond a simple assessment of the cost sensitivity or relative sophistication of offshoring services and develop a typology emphasizing the degree to which offshoring services acti...
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作者：Kenney, Martin; Massini, Silvia; Murtha, Thomas P.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; University of California System; University of California Davis; University of Manchester
摘要：In this paper, we introduce the Journal of International Business Studies Special Issue on Offshoring Administrative and Technical Services (ATS). In doing so, we have attempted to locate the topic within the international business research tradition, as well as suggest challenges and opportunities that the phenomenon offers to theoretical and empirical research in the field. We examine the interplay of costs, knowledge, and innovation in the evolution of ATS offshoring from modest beginnings ...
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作者：Boubakri, Narjess; Cosset, Jean-Claude; Smaoui, Houcem
作者单位：Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; American University of Sharjah
摘要：This paper investigates the link between privatization and emerging market sovereign bond spreads. We conjecture that the way privatization is implemented may help to build a favorable market sentiment by gradually building investor confidence, which should then lead to a lower required compensation for policy risk. Controlling for other determinants of sovereign bond spreads, we find that privatization proceeds do not affect spreads, while privatization progress and share issues reduce spread...
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作者：Noorderhaven, Niels; Harzing, Anne-Wil
作者单位：Tilburg University; University of Melbourne
摘要：Social interaction between managers from different units of a multinational enterprise (MNE) has been shown to be an important factor stimulating intra-MNE knowledge-sharing. Face-to-face social interactions form a communication channel particularly conducive to the transfer of tacit, non-codified knowledge. But intensive social interaction also provides opportunities for social construction of knowledge in a learning dialogue. The first explanation (sender-receiver) makes us expect social int...
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作者：Belderbos, Rene; Zou, Jianglei
作者单位：KU Leuven
摘要：This paper develops a real options portfolio perspective on foreign affiliate divestments. Affiliates are less likely to be divested in response to adverse environmental change if they represent growth or switch option value to the multinational firm under conditions of macroeconomic uncertainty. However, the affiliate is partially redundant to the option value of the multinational firm's affiliate portfolio if the affiliate shares the manufacturing platform role in the host country with other...
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作者：Fey, Carl F.; Morgulis-Yakushev, Sergey; Park, Hyeon Jeong; Bjorkman, Ingmar
作者单位：Stockholm School of Economics; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：This paper investigates the extent to which different human resource management (HRM) practices work better in different countries. We also try to open the black box between HRM and multinational enterprise (MNE) subsidiary performance by considering mechanisms through which HRM practices affect MNE subsidiary performance. The study utilizes a unique data set consisting of subsidiaries of 241 MNEs operating in Russia, USA, and Finland. In the partial least-square analysis used to examine our h...
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作者：Brannen, Mary Yoko; Peterson, Mark F.
作者单位：California State University System; San Jose State University; INSEAD Business School; State University System of Florida; Florida Atlantic University
摘要：Foreign direct investment, particularly cross-border mergers and acquisitions can spawn a range of individual-level outcomes from cross-cultural adjustment and synergistic learning, on the positive side, to work alienation, on the negative. Unsuccessful navigation of these individual-level outcomes leads to failed integration that can seriously affect the realization of desired organizational outcomes such as successful technology transfer, knowledge-sharing, and the general realization of glo...
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作者：Verbeke, Alain; Greidanus, Nathan S.
作者单位：University of Manitoba; University of Calgary
摘要：Modern transaction cost economics (TCE) thinking has developed into a key intellectual foundation of international business (IB) research, but the Williamsonian version has faced substantial criticism for adopting the behavioral assumption of opportunism. In this paper we assess both the opportunism concept and existing alternatives such as trust within the context of IB research, especially work on multinational enterprise (MNE) governance. Case analyses of nine global MNEs illustrate an alte...
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作者：Lopez, Luis E.; Kundu, Sumit K.; Ciravegna, Luciano
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida International University; INCAE Business School; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：This paper provides empirical evidence about born-global firms in the software industry of a small developing country with an open economy: Costa Rica. The paper is based on data collected through interviews with CEOs or founders of 40 Costa Rican software companies. Findings show that there are few born-global firms among Costa Rican software providers. We find that most companies followed a gradual approach to internationalization, and they did not export immediately upon birth. A careful an...
