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作者：Griffith, DA; Myers, MB
作者单位：Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville
摘要：The search for strategic fit has become a core concept in normative models of strategy formation. The issue of strategic fit is becoming increasingly important in global supply chain relationships as managers and academics examine the effectiveness of culturally founded relational governance strategies across multiple supply chain relationships. This study empirically examines the performance implications of strategic fit of relational norm governance strategies in global supply chain relation...
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作者：Rugman, AM; Verbeke, A
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business; University of Calgary
摘要：Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are the key drivers of globalization, as they foster increased economic interdependence among national markets. The ultimate test to assess whether these MNEs are global themselves is their actual penetration level of markets across the globe, especially in the broad 'triad' markets of NAFTA, the European Union and Asia. Yet, data on the activities of the 500 largest MNEs reveal that very few are successful globally. For 320 of the 380 firms for which geographi...
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作者：Teegen, H; Doh, JP; Vachani, S
作者单位：George Washington University; Villanova University; Boston University
摘要：The emergence of organized civil society and of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) as organizational manifestations of broader social movements has dramatically altered the global political-economic landscape. The increasing global reach of NGOs challenges established international business (IB) research, and highlights opportunities for broadening and adapting extant paradigms in the field. In this article, we introduce the concept of NGOs and contrast them with their private-sector ( firm)...
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作者：Dhanaraj, C; Lyles, MA; Steensma, HK; Tihanyi, L
作者单位：Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Indianapolis; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：Drawing on organizational learning and economic sociology, we address how relational embeddedness between the foreign parent and international joint venture (IJV) managers influences the type of knowledge (i.e., tacit and explicit) transferred to the IJV, and how the importance of relational embeddedness varies between young and mature IJVs. We also examine the influence of tacit and explicit knowledge on IJV performance. Our results show the importance that tie strength, trust, and shared val...
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作者：Ricart, JE; Enright, MJ; Ghemawat, P; Hart, SL; Khanna, T
作者单位：University of Navarra; IESE Business School; University of Hong Kong; Harvard University; Cornell University
摘要：This paper studies a new frontier in the understanding of International Strategy ( IS). To explore it, we propose the analogy of the ecology of firms and places as a way to emphasize that the real problem is the colocation of different places with different types of firms. Locations are in fact the distinctive content of International Business Strategy. We deal with this problem with four different perspectives. First, differences across countries must be addressed with integrative frameworks ...
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作者：Foss, NJ; Pedersen, T
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); Copenhagen Business School
摘要：This Introduction discusses the contrast between, on the one hand, the current popularity of addressing MNC organization in knowledge terms and, on the other, the lack of adequate understanding of many of the causal mechanisms and contextual factors in relations between knowledge processes and organizational factors. A number of the relevant research challenges are identified, and it is clarified how the five articles in this Focused Issue addresses some of these.
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作者：Meyer, KE
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School
摘要：Multinational enterprises (MNEs) play a pivotal role in the development of many emerging economies. In consequence, they became the focus of scholarly research by economists and policy analysts. In contrast, international business scholars have been comparatively uninterested in analysing this role of MNEs. Yet they could make important contributions to these debates. First, studies taking the individual firms as starting point would enhance understanding of the interaction between MNEs and th...
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作者：Zhao, HX; Luo, YD; Suh, T
作者单位：Saint Louis University; University of Miami; Texas State University System; Texas State University San Marcos
摘要：Entry mode choice is a critical ingredient of international entry strategies, and has been voluminously examined in the field. The findings, however, are very mixed, especially with respect to transaction-cost-related factors in determining the ownership-based entry mode choice. This study conducted a meta-analysis to quantitatively summarize the literature and empirically generalize more conclusive findings. Based on the 106 effect sizes of 38 empirical studies, the meta-analysis shows that t...
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作者：Knight, GA; Cavusgil, ST
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作者：Buckley, P; Carter, MI
作者单位：University of Leeds
摘要：This paper outlines a model of process organisation for the combination of different types of knowledge from spatially separated sources in the multinational enterprise. The model envisages an initiator-entrepreneur as the motor of the process, and identifies regularities in the types of knowledge combination within the firm that provide additional value. Knowledge losses, decision losses and coordination losses are imperfections in the process, and result in barriers to the effective combinat...
