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作者：Caprar, Dan V.; Devinney, Timothy M.; Kirkman, Bradley L.; Caligiuri, Paula
作者单位：University of New South Wales Sydney; University of Leeds; North Carolina State University; Northeastern University
摘要：Understanding the influence of culture on business operations has been one of the most enduring components of international business (IB) and international management (IM) theorizing and empirical investigation. While several critiques and debates questioned the significant progress made in this domain, the special issue we introduce here is meant to demonstrate that further advancement on how we conceptualize and measure culture is not only needed, but also possible. We provide an overview of...
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作者：Sugathan, Anish; George, Rejie
作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad; Harvard University; Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
摘要：In this article we develop a conceptual model to examine the influence of quality of country-level governance infrastructure and corporate governance effectiveness on profit shifting. We empirically test propositions derived from the model with a unique firm-level data set and using multiple indicators of governance infrastructure quality and corporate governance mechanisms. We estimate that on average about 6% of total pre-tax income is shifted out of foreign-owned firms in India. We show tha...
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作者：Coviello, Nicole
作者单位：Wilfrid Laurier University; University of Turku
摘要：Knight and Cavusgil's Journal of International Business Studies Decade Awardwinning article offers numerous contributions to international business research. As one example, it advances cross-disciplinary conversation about entrepreneurial internationalization. A critical review of their study reveals, however, that certain findings require reinterpretation. This commentary does so, discussing the resultant implications and the question of when it is (in)appropriate to use the term born global...
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作者：Luiz, John M.
作者单位：University of Cape Town
摘要：We introduce a measure called ethno-linguistic fractionalization (ELF), which captures the ethnic and/or linguistic diversity in a country and examine its implications on existing cultural measures. Not only do high levels of fractionalization affect the use of statistical means to account for cultural distance (CD), we show that it is not constant and therefore the dynamics of change need to be addressed. We pursue the study of the dynamics and potential endogeneity through an in-depth case s...
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作者：Huang, Tao; Wu, Fei; Yu, Jin; Zhang, Bohui
作者单位：Jiangxi University of Finance & Economics; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; University of New South Wales Sydney
摘要：We examine the impact of political risk on firms' payout policy. Using a large international sample across 35 countries over the period from 1990 to 2008, we find that global political crises raise the market perceived uncertainty and cost of external financing. Using crisis events as a proxy for political risk, we document that past dividend payers are more likely to terminate dividends and that non-payers are less likely to initiate dividends during periods of high political risk. These find...
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作者：Obadia, Claude; Bello, Daniel C.; Gilliland, David I.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; Colorado State University System; Colorado State University Fort Collins
摘要：A foreign distributor's motivation to perform local marketing tasks for an exporter is often poor due to agency conflicts and transaction cost constraints characterizing the export channel. While exporters may engage in actions such as offering incentives and overseeing partner activities to improve foreign marketing, such intrusions into partner operations often fail to enhance the distributor's role performance. Drawing on motivation theory, the authors develop a model explaining the efficie...
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作者：King, Michael R.
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：This article examines the role of political bargaining and state institutions in explaining variation in state support to multinational banks (MNBs). International business theory predicts that multinational enterprises will engage in political activities to gain a competitive advantage over rivals. I hypothesize that MNBs with greater bargaining power and favorable institutions received state capital injections on more attractive terms than foreign rivals. I test this hypothesis by studying t...
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作者：Sharma, Piyush
作者单位：Curtin University
摘要：Consumer ethnocentrism (CE) is a popular construct in international marketing research and is generally measured using the CETSCALE, a reliable scale with proven predictive validity but with limited evidence about its construct validity, dimensionality and cross-cultural measurement invariance. This note addresses these gaps by reconceptualizing CE as an attitude construct consisting of three dimensions: (1) affective reaction, (2) cognitive bias and (3) behavioral preference. A revised CE sca...
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作者：Haas, Martine R.; Cummings, Jonathon N.
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Duke University
摘要：Do international or non-international differences between members matter most for multinational corporation (MNC) teams? We consider two types of international differences, arising from geographic locations and national origins, and two types of non-international differences, arising from structural affiliations and demographic attributes. Examining the barriers to knowledge seeking between MNC team members, we argue that whether international or non-international differences create greater ba...
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作者：Alimov, Azizjon
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：This article exploits changes in country-level employment protection regulations as a source of plausibly exogenous variation in labor laws and finds that these regulations play an important role in cross-border merger activity. Over the 1991-2009 period, countries that tighten employment regulations attract more foreign acquirers, especially those from countries with relatively more flexible labor regulations. The results appear to be robust to alternative specifications. Importantly these pa...
