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作者：Shenkar, Oded; Liang, Guoyong; Shenkar, Rakefet
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University System of Ohio; Wright State University Dayton
摘要：Internationalizing far later than other sectors, healthcare has seen trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) grow in recent years. While part of the service economy, healthcare has unique features that distinguish it from other service sectors and imprint on its globalization and spillover patterns. In this paper, we review the trends in healthcare internationalization, its drivers, and the obstacles standing in the way. We outline the special characteristics of the healthcare sector and how...
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作者：Lindner, Thomas; Puck, Jonas; Verbeke, Alain
作者单位：University of Innsbruck; Vienna University of Economics & Business; University of Calgary; University of Reading; Vrije Universiteit Brussel
摘要：We reconcile the recommendations made by Kalnins (J Int Bus Stud, 2022) on the one hand and by Lindner, Puck and Verbeke (J Int Bus Stud 51(3):283-298, 2020) on the other, on how international business (IB) quantitative researchers should treat multicollinearity. We explain that, in principle, treatment depends on the underlying data generation process, but note that datasets based on any single generation process are rare. In doing so, we broaden the discussion to include how research methods...
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作者：Allen, Matthew M. C.; Wood, Geoffrey; Demirbag, Mehmet
作者单位：Bangor University
摘要：In this article, we make the case for theoretically/logically derived explanatory typologies and their constituent ideal types, arguing that they can provide us with the basis to further understand dynamic and complex contemporary phenomena. We contrast this approach with dominant analytical strategies in international-business research. We show that the greater use of explanatory typologies and their associated ideal types in international-business research facilitates comparisons of similar ...
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作者：Kafouros, Mario; Hashai, Niron; Tardios, Janja Annabel; Wang, Elizabeth Yi
作者单位：University of Manchester; Alliance Manchester Business School; Reichman University; Brunel University; University of Leeds
摘要：Although MNEs create inventions both internally and collaboratively with partners as well as within and across countries, we know very little about the effects that combining such inventive activities have on their profitability. This study develops an invention-based perspective that considers how MNEs' profitability is influenced by the ways they organize the development of inventions across organizational boundaries (internally or collaboratively) and geographic boundaries (within or across...
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作者：Casson, Mark; Li, Yutong
作者单位：University of Reading; University of Reading
摘要：International business is inherently complex for four main reasons: the large number of countries, products, technologies and firms involved, the intricate connectivity of international transport and communications networks, the diversity of the political, cultural and regulatory environment, and the speed and unpredictability of change. The complexity created by these features can be measured using the techniques presented in this paper. IB has developed simple and powerful theories which abs...
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作者：Forsgren, Mats; Holm, Ulf
作者单位：Uppsala University
摘要：Recent attempts to extend internalization theory into new fields of enquiry illustrate the crucial role of control in the theory. In this paper, we focus on two examples: one applying internalization theory to external business relationships of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and one applying new internalization theory to MNEs' governance. We argue that, in both cases, the ability of the extended theory to explain MNE behavior can be questioned, either because of the governance of the externa...
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作者：Jiang, Guoliang Frank; Reuer, Jeffrey J.; Southam, Colette; Beamish, Paul W.
作者单位：Carleton University; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Bond University; Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：This study aims to bridge the research on the internationalization of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with the literature on initial public offerings (IPOs). It investigates how IPOs affect SMEs' foreign investment decisions as they internationalize. We argue that IPOs enable SMEs to engage in a period of accelerated foreign expansion, resulting in a wave-like pattern, as suggested by Hakanson and Kappen's (J Int Bus Stud 48(9):1103-1113, 2017) 'Casino model' of internationalization...
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作者：Andersson, Martin; Castellani, Davide; Fassio, Claudio; Jienwatcharamongkhol, Viroj
作者单位：Blekinge Institute Technology; Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN); Lund University; University of Reading; University of Perugia; Lund University; University of Pisa
摘要：The mobility of workers from multinational enterprises (MNEs) to other local firms is increasingly recognized as an important externality mechanism. However, MNEs have strong incentives to curb this mobility to prevent leakage of firm-specific assets. This research note investigates the likelihood and nature of such mobility patterns. Using longitudinal, matched employer-employee data for Sweden with detailed information on individuals, establishments, and firms, we find that workers employed ...
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作者：Vendrell-Herrero, Ferran; Darko, Christian K.; Gomes, Emanuel; Lehman, David W.
作者单位：University of Birmingham; Universidade Nova de Lisboa; University of Virginia
摘要：Prior research suggests that firm productivity and export activity are mutually reinforcing. Highly productive firms are more likely to enter the export market (i.e., self-selection), and upon doing so, achieve greater productivity levels over time (i.e., learning-by-exporting). We consider how a critical yet unexamined, factor impacts this relationship: the economic development of a firm's home market. Drawing on institution-based theories, we hypothesize that self-selection effects will be s...
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作者：Brannen, Mary Yoko
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; California State University System; San Jose State University
摘要：Opening a field to a diversity of methods takes maturity of the field, a supportive infrastructure, and time. Now, in the wake of our 50th anniversary, we can say the IB field has reached a certain amount of maturity. In this commentary, I provide the backstory to this year's big win for qualitative methods - the 2021 Decade Award - and discuss how there has never been a better time for the power of richness from case studies, ethnographies, and a wide range of other types of qualitative resea...
