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作者：Bordia, Sarbari; Bordia, Prashant
作者单位：Australian National University
摘要：Language holds a central role in sustainable international expansion for multinationals. The choice of the functional language can facilitate or hinder communication between headquarters and subsidiary locations. In order to communicate effectively with the parent organization, host country employees often have to adopt a language that is not native to the subsidiary region. We take a subsidiary employee perspective in presenting an interdisciplinary theoretical model of host country employees...
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作者：Maitland, Elizabeth; Sammartino, Andre
作者单位：University of New South Wales Sydney; University of Melbourne
摘要：How do the senior decision-makers within a multinational enterprise (MNE) think through and determine an internationalization decision? Despite the cognitive foundations of several key constructs, standard internationalization models do not explicitly incorporate managerial cognition. We argue that the boundedly rational decision-maker is underspecified in international business models and this oversight contributes to weak empirical findings on experience, learning, internationalization strat...
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作者：Liang, Hao; Ren, Bing; Sun, Sunny Li
作者单位：Tilburg University; Nankai University; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Kansas City
摘要：Integrating agency theory with institutional analysis in international business, we propose a state-control perspective to analyze government-control mechanisms in emerging economies' globalization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). We identify two types of state control that influence SOEs' globalization decisions and the degree of globalization (DOG): state ownership control and executives' political connections, both of which are contingent upon the home country's evolving institutional env...
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作者：Cavusgil, S. Tamer; Knight, Gary
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; Willamette University
摘要：Our 2004 Journal of International Business Studies article, Innovation, Organizational Capabilities, and the Born Global Firm provided a framework for the phenomenon of early and rapid internationalization among young, entrepreneurial firms. This work can be characterized as an integration of marketing, entrepreneurial, and capability-based thinking around exporting, positioned as the born global exporter. The article also reported findings from a national study of start-up firms that expanded...
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作者：Joshi, Amol M.; Lahiri, Nandini
作者单位：Oregon State University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：How does language friction affect alliance formation? Language friction is a form of cultural friction arising from structural differences in the respective languages used by potential partners to reason and solve problems together. A little language friction may prompt partners to rethink solutions, thereby enhancing collaboration, but excessive friction may impede collaboration. We develop a Language Friction Index (LFI) to quantify relative differences in linguistic structure for any langua...
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作者：Liu, Leigh Anne; Adair, Wendi L.; Bello, Daniel C.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; University of Waterloo
摘要：We propose that metaphorical descriptions of newly formed international joint ventures (IJVs) contain important, diagnostic information regarding the way these cross-border alliances are managed and perform. In three studies, we examine how relational metaphors reflect semantic fit, or the IJV partners' cognitive match of managerial schemas and their capability to recontextualize communications regarding alliance operations. We find IJV partners that share relational metaphors achieve superior...
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作者：Jiang, Yuan; Colakoglu, Saba; Lepak, David P.; Blasi, Joseph R.; Kruse, Douglas L.
作者单位：Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Koc University; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick
摘要：Work practices that involve employees are generally assumed to be less effective in more hierarchical societies where employees' values are not aligned with such practices. In this study, we challenge this assumption by developing a theory that differentiates between the symbolic and instrumental aspects of involvement work systems and proposing that their symbolic impact will be more pronounced in egalitarian societies, whereas their instrumental impact will be more pronounced in hierarchical...
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作者：Herrmann, Don; Kang, Tony; Yoo, Yong Keun
作者单位：Oklahoma State University System; Oklahoma State University - Stillwater; McMaster University; Korea University
摘要：Our study explores the source of improvement in the information environment from cross-listing shares on US stock exchanges. Are the improvements from cross-listing in the United States achieved more through public or private information channels? While we find evidence that US cross-listing is significantly associated with improvements in both public and private information precision, the association is stronger between cross-listing and improvements in private information precision. This sug...
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作者：Sebastian Reiche, B.; Harzing, Anne-Wil; Pudelko, Markus
作者单位：University of Navarra; IESE Business School; Middlesex University; Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen
摘要：Extending existing international business (IB) research, we conceptualize shared social identity as an outcome rather than only an antecedent of multinational enterprise knowledge flows to provide an alternative reason for why such knowledge flows occur. We further argue that shared language among subsidiary and headquarters (HQ) managers is an insufficient condition for subsidiary knowledge receipt. Accordingly, we develop a moderated mediation model at the subsidiary level to examine how sha...
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作者：Cuypers, Ilya R. P.; Ertug, Gokhan; Hennart, Jean-Francois
作者单位：Singapore Management University; University of Pavia; Queens University Belfast; Tilburg University
摘要：We study the effects of linguistic distance and lingua franca proficiency on the equity stake taken by acquirers from 67 countries in 59,092 acquisition targets in 69 host countries. We theorize and find that acquirers take lower equity stakes in foreign targets when linguistic distance and differences in lingua franca proficiency between them are high, and take higher stakes when the combined lingua franca proficiency of the parties is high. We also find that linguistic and cultural distance ...
