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作者：Morris, Shad; Snell, Scott; Bjorkman, Ingmar
作者单位：Brigham Young University; University of Virginia; Aalto University
摘要：A unique characteristic of the multinational corporation is that it comprises a geographically dispersed and culturally differentiated workforce that embodies both firm-specific and location-specific human capital. This article takes an architectural approach to describe how different types of human capital develop from the individual level, to the unit level, and then to the firm level in order to build a talent portfolio for the multinational corporation. Depending on the company's strategy ...
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作者：Nurmi, Niina; Hinds, Pamela J.
作者单位：Aalto University; Stanford University
摘要：A vast majority of research on global virtual work focuses on the struggles for workers as they navigate geographic, cultural, language, and time zone differences. Our research suggests that, despite these struggles, global virtual work may offer significant benefits to workers. We interviewed 78 engineers about their experiences of working globally and then surveyed 515 knowledge workers who worked either with globally distributed or exclusively collocated colleagues. Global virtual work was ...
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作者：Ma, Li; Chen, Aihua; Zhang, Zhi-Xue
作者单位：Peking University; Chongqing University
摘要：The article extends research on the contingency of fit in international management at the level of managerial tasks. Foreign firms' managerial tasks are embedded in two environments with different profiles, and different managerial cultures fit them to ensure task success. Study 1 analyzes 18 critical incidents, summarizes Chinese and Japanese managerial cultures, and identifies three types of managerial tasks. We hypothesize that task success depends on the fit between task type and the chose...
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作者：Glendening, Matt; Khurana, Lnder K.; Wang, Wei
作者单位：University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia
摘要：This article examines the association between the market for corporate control and firm dividend policies. Specifically, we examine changes in firms' dividend payouts following a plausibly exogenous shock to the threat of takeover with the staggered initiation of country-level merger and acquisition (M&A) laws. Using a global sample of firms across 34 countries, we find that both the likelihood and the amount of dividends decrease significantly after the initiation of an M&A law in a country. ...
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作者：Cuervo-Cazurral, Alvaro; Andersson', Uif; Brannen, Mary Yoko; Nielsen, Bo Bernhard; Reuber, A. Rebecca
作者单位：Northeastern University; Malardalen University; BI Norwegian Business School; University of Victoria; University of Sydney; University of Toronto
摘要：The complex nature of international business research, with its cross-country and multilevel nature, complicates the empirical identification of relationships among theoretical constructs. The objective of this editorial is to provide guidance to help international business scholars navigate this complexity and ensure that readers can trust their findings. We provide suggestions for how to rule out alternative explanations, explaining key considerations not only in empirical analyses, but also...
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作者：van Hoorn, Andre; Maseland, Robbert
作者单位：University of Groningen
摘要：Extant institutional research has failed to make a distinction between the effects of institutional profile and institutional distance on MNEs. The problem stems from the fact that, due to the use of a single reference country, variation in institutional distance between the reference country and partner countries is essentially equal to variation in the institutional profiles of these partner countries, making institutional distance and institutional profile effects indistinguishable. This re...
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作者：Meyer, Klaus E.; Peng, Mike W.
作者单位：China Europe International Business School; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：In Probing Theoretically into Central and Eastern Europe: Transactions, Resources, and Institutions, we outlined the contributions of research in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) to theoretical debates in business research. In this retrospective, we reflect upon the evolution of the field over the past decade. With the fading impact of CEE's distinct shared history, we suggest that CEE best be analyzed as emerging economies, rather than as a distinct geographic entity. Emerging economy busines...
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作者：Rathert, Nikolas
作者单位：Hertie School
摘要：Drawing on institutional theory, this study examines the question of how host country institutions affect corporate social responsibility (CSR) adoption by multinational enterprises (MNEs). I propose that CSR encompasses a set of practices that MNEs draw on to signal legitimacy in different kinds of institutional contexts - contexts that vary in how they shape issue salience and stakeholder power in a given issue field. Building on ideas related to field opacity and the managerial implications...
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作者：Edman, Jesper
摘要：This article leverages identity theory to address the question of when and how foreignness acts as an advantage and liability for the MNE subsidiary. Applying an organizational identity lens, I delineate how subsidiaries manage their foreignness by accentuating and attenuating internal and external organizational attributes. Drawing on this conceptualization, I theorize how an accentuated foreign identity moderates context-specific advantages and liabilities. In offering a more nuanced underst...
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作者：Rahaman, Mohammad M.
作者单位：Saint Marys University - Canada
摘要：How does international competition originating from low-wage countries affect domestic financing capacity of firms in high-wage countries? In this article, we use China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) as a quasi-natural experiment to investigate the effects of trade-induced competition originating from China on the price and design of bank-loan contracts for firms in US manufacturing industries. We find that the elevated level of Chinese import competition in the US, following ...
