Journal of International Business Studies

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• Understanding the words of relationships: Language as an essential tool to manage CSR in communities of place AI翻译
  作者：Selmier, W. Travis, II; Newenham-Kahindi, Aloysius; Oh, Chang Hoon
  作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; University of Saskatchewan; Simon Fraser University
  摘要：Multinational enterprises (MNEs) encounter relentless stakeholder pressures when operating across linguistic, cultural and institutional boundaries. Our aims are to examine whether and how acquisition of language resources may help MNEs to bridge these boundaries and reduce pressures on MNE legitimacy by improving their corporate social responsibility (CSR) outcomes. We propose an MNE model of language resource acquisition policy based on three language orientations: language-as-problem, langu...
• Autonomy delegation to foreign subsidiaries: An enabling mechanism for emerging-market multinationals AI翻译
  作者：Wang, Stephanie Lu; Luo, Yadong; Lu, Xiongwen; Sun, Jinyun; Maksimov, Vladislav
  作者单位：University of Miami; Sun Yat Sen University; Fudan University
  摘要：Current theory on foreign subsidiary autonomy is insufficient to examine a situation where a multinational lacks experience to organize global operations, and yet intends to compete extensively with established multinational enterprises (MNEs) from advanced economies. By building on theoretical perspectives developed for emerging-market multinational enterprises (EMNEs), we advance the idea that foreign subsidiary autonomy is a strategic mechanism to overcome the EMNE's weaknesses in managing ...
• A more expansive perspective on translation in IB research: Insights from the Russian Handbook of Knowledge Management AI翻译
  作者：Holden, Nigel J.; Michailova, Snejina
  作者单位：University of Leeds; University of Auckland
  摘要：The treatment of translation in the international business (IB) literature has been predominantly concerned with research methodology and back-translation. Arguing for a less microscopic concept of translation in IB research, we advocate a more expansive perspective, whereby translation is understood as cross-border interplay of entire terrains of corporate contexts and experience linking multiple mental and social frames of reference. We apply three notions from linguistics and translation st...
• Building professional discourse in emerging markets: Language, context and the challenge of sensemaking AI翻译
  作者：Kuznetsov, Andrei; Kuznetsova, Olga
  作者单位：University of Lancashire; Manchester Metropolitan University
  摘要：Using ethnographic evidence from the former Soviet republics, this paper examines a relatively new and mainly unobserved concept in international business literature: the phenomenon of communication disengagement that manifests itself in many emerging markets. We link it to the deficiencies of the local professional business discourse rooted in language limitations, which reflects a lack of experience with the market economy. This hampers cognitive coherence between foreign and local business ...
• Follow me to the innovation frontier? Leaders, laggards, and the differential effects of imports and exports on technological innovation AI翻译
  作者：Smith, Sheryl Winston
  作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
  摘要：International trade and R&D offer significant opportunities for knowledge transfer through exports, but simultaneously increase potential competition through imports. In this paper, the author examines industry-level heterogeneity in the relationship between domestic innovation and international trade. Using a model of innovation in the global economy and a novel measure of relative industry strength, the paper examines differential effects of exports and imports in high-technology industries....
• Governments as owners: State-owned multinational companies AI翻译
  作者：Cuervo-Cazurra, Alvaro; Inkpen, Andrew; Musacchio, Aldo; Ramaswamy, Kannan
  作者单位：Northeastern University; Harvard University; Brandeis University; National Bureau of Economic Research
  摘要：The globalization of state-owned multinational companies (SOMNCs) has become an important phenomenon in international business (IB), yet it has received scant attention in the literature. We explain how the analysis of SOMNCs can help advance the literature by extending our understanding of state-owned firms (SOEs) and multinational companies (MNCs) in at least two ways. First, we cross-fertilize the IB and SOEs literatures in their analysis of foreign investment behavior and introduce two arg...
• The impact of language barriers on trust formation in multinational teams AI翻译
  作者：Tenzer, Helene; Pudelko, Markus; Harzing, Anne-Wil
  作者单位：Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen; University of Melbourne; heSam Universite; ESCP Business School
  摘要：This study systematically investigates how language barriers influence trust formation in multinational teams (MNTs). On the basis of 90 interviews with team members, team leaders and senior managers in 15 MNTs in 3 German automotive corporations, the authors show how MNT members' cognitive and emotional reactions to language barriers influence their perceived trustworthiness and intention to trust, which in turn affect trust formation. The authors contribute to diversity research by distingui...
• Is there convergence across countries? A spatial approach AI翻译
  作者：Berry, Heather; Guillen, Mauro F.; Hendi, Arun S.
  作者单位：George Washington University; University of Pennsylvania; University of Pennsylvania
  摘要：We analyze convergence across countries over the last half century as a result of globalizing forces. Drawing on theories of modernization, dependency, the world-system, political trade blocs, and the world-society, we consider economic, demographic, knowledge, financial, and political dimensions of convergence. Using a new methodology, we calculate the minimum volume ellipsoid encompassing different groupings of countries, finding that during the 1960-2009 period, countries have not evolved s...
• Firms' FDI ownership: The influence of government ownership and legislative connections AI翻译
  作者：Pan, Yigang; Teng, Lefa; Supapol, Atipol Bhanich; Lu, Xiongwen; Huang, Dan; Wang, Zhennan
  作者单位：York University - Canada; University of Guelph; Fudan University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  摘要：The level of ownership in an overseas subsidiary has been an important issue in international business. Existing literature, based on transaction cost theory, predicts that firms prefer higher ownership for subsidiaries located in favorable foreign institutional environments. We propose two moderating factors to this prediction: governments as owners of firms and firms' legislative connections. We hypothesized that the level of subsidiary ownership was less affected by the heterogeneity of for...
• Adaptation, bridging and firm upgrading: How non-market institutions and MNCs facilitate knowledge recombination in emerging markets AI翻译
  作者：Corredoira, Rafael A.; McDermott, Gerald A.
  作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; Austral University
  摘要：How do multinational corporation (MNC) subsidiaries and local institutions help or hinder emerging market suppliers to upgrade their capabilities? Drawing on insights from economic sociology and comparative capitalism, we posit that in these contexts of scarce resources and inferior technologies upgrading depends on the ways in which organizational and institutional networks enable firms to integrate imported advanced knowledge with local applied knowledge. Using a combination of field work an...