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作者：Fernandez, Zulima; Nieto, Maria Jesus
作者单位：Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
摘要：This paper analyses the relationship between the internationalisation strategies of SMEs and types of ownership. Different types of ownership affect firms, and this in turn will influence the internationalisation strategy adopted. Using a sample of Spanish SMEs, our results show that internationalisation is negatively related to family ownership and positively related to corporate ownership. We have also observed that the presence of a corporate blockholder in family firms encourages internati...
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作者：Luo, Yadong
作者单位：University of Miami
摘要：This study unites the three lenses - political behavior, corporate social responsibility, and corruption - and evaluates the way in which multinational enterprises ( MNEs) manage political and social forces in a foreign emerging market. Using the theory of structuration as the conceptual foundation, we propose that an MNE's propensity to cooperate with the host government is positively related to its philanthropic contribution and resource accommodation, whereas its propensity to be assertive ...
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作者：Khatri, N; Tsang, EWK; Begley, TM
作者单位：University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia; Wayne State University; University College Dublin; Northeastern University
摘要：The devastating economic effects of the Asian financial crisis and US corporate scandals have underscored the need to strengthen corporate governance provisions. Although cronyism has been suggested as a leading cause of the two crises, it has received little attention from scholars. In this paper, we analyze the concept of cronyism and argue that it comes in various guises arising from different motivational bases and power dependence relations. We distinguish cronyism from related constructs...
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作者：Barry, F.; Kearney, C.
作者单位：Trinity College Dublin; Trinity College Dublin; University College Dublin
摘要：Ireland has been very successful in attracting foreign MNEs in high-technology sectors. Although these sectors exhibit faster growth than the traditional low-technology sectors populated primarily by indigenous firms, the high-technology sectors are also more volatile. We use portfolio theory to show that Ireland's FDI strategy has led to a more diversified manufacturing sector that exhibits higher growth without a commensurate increase in volatility and risk.
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作者：Madhok, A
作者单位：York University - Canada; Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
摘要：In spite of the increasing popularity of international joint ventures, managers express a high level of dissatisfaction with them. This paper argues that overemphasis on the outcome has resulted in a neglect of the social processes underlying the outcome. The paper elaborates upon the rationale for a cooperative approach towards interorganizational collaborative relationships based on trust, and discusses it in the context of joint ventures. This is then applied towards understanding multinati...
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作者：Luthans, F; Ibrayeva, ES
作者单位：University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln; Minnesota State Colleges & Universities; Southwestern Minnesota State University
摘要：In both quantitative and qualitative field studies, the self-efficacy of entrepreneurs in the transition economies of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan is examined. Using a social cognitive framework, the complex interaction among these entrepreneurs' (N = 133) personal characteristics, environment, and self-efficacy is analyzed by structural equation modeling. Their self-efficacy was found to have a direct and mediating impact on performance. Another sample of entrepreneurs from these countries (N = ...
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作者：Friedman, Ray; Chi, Shu-Cheng; Liu, Leigh Anne
作者单位：Vanderbilt University; National Taiwan University; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
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作者：Wei, Y.; Liu, X.
作者单位：Lancaster University; Hunan University; University of Surrey
摘要：This paper assesses productivity spillovers from R&D, exports and the very presence of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China's manufacturing sector, based on a panel of more than 10,000 indigenous and foreign-invested firms for 1998-2001. There are positive inter-industry productivity spillovers from R&D and exports, and positive intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers from foreign presence to indigenous Chinese firms within regions. OECD-invested firms seem to play a much greater...
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作者：Tregaskis, O; Brewster, C
作者单位：De Montfort University; University of Reading
摘要：This paper makes a unique contribution to the HRM convergence/divergence debate by examining whether organisations operating in Europe, over the 10-year time period preceding 2000, are converging in their adoption of contingent employment practice. The susceptibility of contingent employment practice to both convergent and divergent pressures acts as a useful analytical lens. Data are drawn from organisations operating in Germany, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK in 1991 (2918 organis...
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作者：Javidan, Mansour; House, Robert J.; Dorfman, Peter W.; Hanges, Paul J.; de Luque, Mary Sully
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; New Mexico State University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：This paper explains why GLOBE used a set of cultural values and practices to measure national cultures. We show why there is no theoretical or empirical basis for Hofstede's criticism that GLOBE measures of values are too abstract or for his contention that national and organizational cultures are phenomena of different order. We also show why Hofstede has a limited understanding of the relationship between national wealth and culture. Furthermore, we explain why Hofstede's reanalysis of the G...
