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作者：Arregle, Jean-Luc; Miller, Toyah L.; Hitt, Michael A.; Beamish, Paul W.
作者单位：emlyon business school; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; Texas Christian University; Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：International business research is only beginning to develop theory and evidence highlighting the importance of supranational regional institutions to explain firm internationalization. In this context, we offer new theory and evidence regarding the effect of a region's institutional complexity on foreign direct investment decisions by multinational enterprises (MNEs). We define a region's institutional complexity using two components, regional institutional diversity and number of countries. ...
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作者：Zanakis, Stelios H.; Newburry, William; Taras, Vasyl
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida International University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Greensboro
摘要：Social tolerance refers to the extent of recognition and acceptance of differences, willingness to grant equal rights, and refraining from openly intolerant attitudes. Utilizing World Value Survey (WVS) data (56 countries, 83,000 usable respondents), we develop a Global Social Tolerance Index (GSTI) that incorporates gender, minority, immigrant, and religion tolerance dimensions. We develop this index using a multi-step data-driven procedure involving five data standardizations, seven weightin...
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作者：Husted, Bryan W.; Montiel, Ivan; Christmann, Petra
作者单位：Tecnologico de Monterrey; Loyola Marymount University; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Rutgers University New Brunswick
摘要：We explore the impact of local legitimacy on the imitation of certification by subsidiaries of foreign multinational enterprises and domestic firms. We propose that MNE (multinational enterprise) subsidiaries and domestic firms differ in their propensity to imitate geographically proximate firms when deciding whether to adopt national vs global CSR (corporate social responsibility) certifications for two reasons. First, there are differences in the legitimacy they can expect to gain in differe...
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作者：Peterson, Mark F.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida Atlantic University; Maastricht University
摘要：Meyer and Peng's Decade Award article and Retrospective integrate economic and sociological theories of transaction costs, firm resources, and institutions and apply them to firms in Central and Eastern Europe in ways that can inform and be informed by culture theory. Culture theorizing in IB typically uses dimensions of values and norms to analyze the IB implications of the underlying logics that characterize patterns of thought, action and interaction of countries and other large societies. ...
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作者：Cumming, Douglas; Knill, April; Syyrud, Kelsey
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作者：Dai, Na; Nahata, Rajarishi
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY; City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY)
摘要：We examine cross-border syndication in investments led by foreign venture capitalists (VCs) focusing on the potential correlation between cultural differences and the formation of VC syndicates. Contrary to the risk-sharing motive, we find that a greater cultural disparity between the countries of investors and their companies is actually associated with smaller VC syndicates. This is driven largely by lesser local investor representation in foreign VC-led syndicates. However, certain cultural...
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作者：Bernini, Michele; Du, Jun; Love, James H.
作者单位：Aston University; Aston University; University of Warwick; University of Warwick
摘要：Intermittent exporting is something of a puzzle. In theory, exporting represents a major commitment, and is often the starting point for further internationalization. However, intermittent exporters exit and subsequently re-enter exporting, sometimes frequently. We develop a conceptual model to explain how firm characteristics and market conditions interact to affect the decision to exit and re-enter exporting, and model this process using an extensive dataset of French manufacturing firms fro...
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作者：Rezk, Rasha; Srai, Jagjit Singh; Williamson, Peter J.
作者单位：University of Cambridge; University of Cambridge; University of Cambridge
摘要：International business literature has largely explained the international dispersion of firms' activities as a choice based on trade-offs between cost minimisation, knowledge seeking, managing transaction costs and maintaining control. By incorporating insights from operations management, we propose a framework that explicitly takes into account products' physical and knowledge attributes that constrain the viable international configuration options available to firms. Linking the characterist...
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作者：Geary, John; Aguzzoli, Roberta
作者单位：University College Dublin; Durham University
摘要：This article contributes to the growing stream of research on power and micro politics in the MNE. It is situated in the critical realist epistemology. It adopts Burawoy's extended case study method together with a context-sensitive and an actor-centered mode of explanation. The case is intriguing: a MNE from Brazil expands into Canada, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Norway and imposes a new pay and performance management system, contrasting with existing host norms. The article uses this...
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作者：Stahl, Guenter K.; Tung, Rosalie L.; Kostova, Tatiana; Zellmer-Bruhn, Mary
作者单位：Vienna University of Economics & Business; Simon Fraser University; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：The point of departure for the special issue is that current theory and research in international business (IB) may have overly emphasized a negative view on foreignness, distance, and differences of all kinds (national, cultural, organizational, and institutional), with an emphasis on liabilities and adverse outcomes associated with such differences. While existing research is certainly valuable, we argue that focusing on mostly negative processes and outcomes has hindered our understanding o...
