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作者：Chen, Wenjie; Kamal, Fariha
作者单位：George Washington University
摘要：This article evaluates the effect of adopting Internet-enabled information and communication technology (ICT adoption) on the decision to reorganize production across national borders (foreign boundary decision) by multinational enterprises (MNEs). Using a transaction cost framework, we argue that ICT adoption influences foreign boundary decisions by lowering coordination costs both internally and externally for the firm. We propose that the heterogeneity in the technology's characteristics, n...
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作者：Laplume, Andre O.; Petersen, Bent; Pearce, Joshua M.
作者单位：Michigan Technological University; Copenhagen Business School; Michigan Technological University; Michigan Technological University
摘要：This article outlines the evolution of additive manufacturing technology, culminating in 3D printing and presents a vision of how this evolution is affecting existing global value chains (GVCs) in production. In particular, we bring up questions about how this new technology can affect the geographic span and density of GVCs. Potentially, wider adoption of this technology has the potential to partially reverse the trend towards global specialization of production systems into elements that may...
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作者：Brouthers, Lance Eliot; Marshall, Victor B.; Keig, Dawn L.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Kennesaw State University; Whitworth University
摘要：Selecting appropriate samples in cultural distance research is vital to producing valid empirical results. Over 80% of empirical cultural distance studies use a sample comprised of either a single home country with varying host countries or a single host country with varying home countries. When difference scores are used in the calculation of cultural distance based on single-country samples the resulting cultural distance measures typically are highly correlated with one or more of the varyi...
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作者：Koch, Pamela Tremain; Koch, Bradley; Menon, Tanya; Shenkar, Oded
作者单位：Grand Valley State University; Southwestern University of Finance & Economics - China; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Cultural friction posits that cultural differences may be either synergistic or disruptive, but does not specify when or how synergies or disruptions emerge. We theorize that synergies will emerge in foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) when cultural differences in leadership beliefs are less central to the host nation's cultural identity; while disruption will occur when differences are in more culturally central leadership beliefs. Analyzing survival data from 274 FIEs in China, we found supp...
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作者：Mohr, Alexander; Wang, Chengang; Fastoso, Fernando
作者单位：University of Kent; University of Bradford; University of York - UK
摘要：We adopt a resource dependence approach to explain the effect of state participation on the dissolution of international joint ventures (IJVs). While resource dependence theory (RDT) has been used to explain the formation of IJVs, we propose an extension of the theory to explain their dissolution. We do so by highlighting the match between foreign firms' resource needs (resource hierarchy) and the resource provision roles of state-controlled vs private local partners (resource profiles). We fu...
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作者：Zellmer-Bruhn, Mary; Caligiuri, Paula; Thomas, David C.
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：The question that motivated this editorial was, where are the IB experiments? The short answer is that experiments are largely absent from the IB literature; and we argue that they shouldn't be. Experimental methods offer the opportunity to significantly improve the evidence for the causal relationships in international business research in a variety of ways. In this article we highlight the value and limitations of experiments in 18 research, and explain the basic tenets of experimental desig...
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作者：Cumming, Douglas; Knill, April; Syvrud, Kelsey
作者单位：York University - Canada; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：We examine the impact of international venture capital investors on private firm success spanning 81 countries over the years 1995-2010. The data examined indicate that, relative to deals in which the investor base is purely domestic, private firms that have an international investor base have a higher probability of exiting via an initial public offering (IPO) and higher IPO proceeds. The evidence is consistent with the view that while the benefits of internationalization may be difficult and...
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作者：Fung, Simon Yu Kit; Zhou, Gaoguang (Stephen); Zhu, Xindong (Kevin)
作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Hong Kong Baptist University; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：We examine whether monitors are likely to compromise their monitoring objectivity in the face of economically important clients in international business settings. In the context of external auditing and assurance services, we measure monitor objectivity by whether auditors are more (or less) likely to issue to their important clients modified audit opinions, that is, audit opinions provided to outside investors about the firm that demotes explicit areas of concern. Using a large cross-country...
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作者：Un, C. Annique
作者单位：Northeastern University
摘要：I analyze differences in the innovativeness of domestic firms and subsidiaries of foreign firms operating in the same country. I argue that domestic firms suffer a liability of localness in innovation, or a competitive disadvantage in product innovation relative to subsidiaries of foreign firms. I propose that this liability of localness is driven by the relatively lower levels of multiculturalism in employees of domestic firms in comparison with subsidiaries, which limit the identification, t...
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作者：Ault, Joshua K.
作者单位：University of Victoria
摘要：This study applies an institutional perspective to a current debate in social entrepreneurship about the relative effectiveness of commercial vs non-profit methods of building inclusive markets for the poor. While some observers argue that for-profit ventures are needed to serve the poor on a large scale, others express concern that commercialization causes mission drift, a phenomenon. where ventures migrate to wealthier clients over time. A multilevel analysis of 2679 for-profit and non-profi...
