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作者:Abdi, Majid; Aulakh, Preet S.
作者单位:University of Newcastle; York University - Canada
摘要:Interfirm relationships among partners from institutionally distant environments are subject to governance difficulties, owing to the paucity of shared cognitive and regulatory frameworks. We examine the potential of formal contracting and relational governance developed at the partnership level to overcome the formal and informal institutional gap at the country level. Empirical results from a sample of 184 international partnerships of large US firms support an overall substitutive relations...
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作者:Ioannou, Ioannis; Serafeim, George
作者单位:University of London; London Business School; Harvard University
摘要:Based on Whitley's national business systems (NBS) institutional framework, we theorize about and empirically investigate the impact of nation-level institutions on firms' corporate social performance (CSP). Using a sample of firms from 42 countries spanning seven years, we construct an annual composite CSP index for each firm, based on social and environmental metrics. We find that the political system, followed by the labor and education system, and the cultural system are the most important...
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作者:Riefler, Petra; Diamantopoulos, Adamantios; Siguaw, Judy A.
作者单位:University of Vienna; University of North Carolina; East Carolina University
摘要:For international companies, the literature recommends directing segmentation efforts at customer characteristics rather than country characteristics. Consumers' degree of cosmopolitan orientation has been suggested as a powerful segmentation base, as this characteristic is expected to drive consumers' tastes and preferences. To advance research on this segmentation base, this article offers a conceptualization of the consumer cosmopolitanism construct by: (1) delineating its conceptual domain...
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作者:Campbell, Joanna Tochman; Eden, Lorraine; Miller, Stewart R.
作者单位:Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio
摘要:Prior studies have found that foreign affiliates of multinational enterprises (MNEs) suffer from liability of foreignness (LOF). Foreign affiliates may be able to improve their social legitimacy and overcome LOF by demonstrating social commitment to host-country constituents through corporate social responsibility (CSR). If LOF is positively related to the distance between the home and host countries, and CSR activities confer social legitimacy benefits on foreign affiliates, we should expect ...
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作者:Kumaraswamy, Arun; Mudambi, Ram; Saranga, Haritha; Tripathy, Arindam
作者单位:Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; University of Washington; University of Washington Tacoma
摘要:Market liberalization in emerging-market economies and the entry of multinational firms spur significant changes to the industry/institutional environment faced by domestic firms. Prior studies have described how such changes tend to be disruptive to the relatively backward domestic firms, and negatively affect their performance and survival prospects. In this paper, we study how domestic supplier firms may adapt and continue to perform, as market liberalization progresses, through catch-up st...
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作者:Oetzel, Jennifer; Getz, Kathleen
作者单位:American University; Loyola University Chicago
摘要:The aim of this study is to investigate factors - specifically stakeholder pressures - that may affect the likelihood that firms will respond to violent conflict. Survey and archival data on respondents from 471 multinational and local firms operating in 80 countries were used to explore these issues. Key findings include: (1) local stakeholder pressure is associated with the likelihood that firms will respond directly to violent conflict, collaborating with other organizations or working alon...
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作者:Ravlin, Elizabeth C.; Liao, Yuan; Morrell, Daniel L.; Au, Kevin; Thomas, David C.
作者单位:University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; Simon Fraser University; Middle Tennessee State University; Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of New South Wales Sydney
摘要:As organizations globalize, culturally based variation in the ways employees conceptualize their relationships with their employers increases in importance. In the competition for talent, organizations must understand employee preferences and expectations regarding their treatment by the firm. Recently, culture's influence on the psychological contract (individual perceptions of employer obligations) has been noted with regard to the extent that employees perceive their psychological contracts...
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作者:Eapen, Alex
作者单位:University of Sydney
摘要:Do domestic firms benefit from the presence of foreign multinational firms? The FDI spillovers literature addresses this very issue, primarily examining whether the presence of foreign firms in a host market leads to technology spillovers and upgrading in domestic firms. A key finding is that spillovers depend on the absorptive capacity of the domestic firm. Yet, in conceptualizing absorptive capacity, scholars have largely overlooked how social structure shapes it. Integrating insights from s...
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作者:Shi, Yaqi; Magnan, Michel; Kim, Jeong-Bon
作者单位:Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital; Concordia University - Canada; City University of Hong Kong
摘要:This paper explores the likelihood and consequences of voluntary disclosure (proxied by management earnings forecasts) for a sample of 1005 cross-listed firms in the US from 40 countries over the period 1996-2005. Our study is grounded in a three-tiered conceptual framework that relies on insights from and implications of institutional theory, agency theory and bonding theory to explain the costs and benefits associated with voluntary disclosure. Consistent with institutional theory and agency...
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作者:Laursen, Keld; Masciarelli, Francesca; Prencipe, Andrea
作者单位:Copenhagen Business School; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); G d'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara; Luiss Guido Carli University
摘要:Drawing on social capital theory and the international business literature, we argue that domestic geography, in terms of localized potential social capital, facilitates individual firms' awareness of business opportunities, including knowledge related to involvement in the foreign markets for goods and technology, thereby enhancing firms' involvement in those foreign markets. When potential social capital reaches a certain threshold, it may work to trap firms into operating only within their ...