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Do international new ventures have attraction advantages? Insights from a recruitment perspective Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Philipp Volkmer, Matthias Baum, Nicole Coviello
This study applies a recruitment lens to examine how the proactive internationalization of new ventures might influence job seeker perceptions of organizational attractiveness. Using signaling theory and person-environment fit theory to develop our hypotheses, we employ a metric conjoint experiment with 209 job seekers (making 3344 decisions). Our multilevel regression results suggest that the international
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Dynamic improvisation capabilities as a learning mechanism in early internationalizing firms Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Sylvie Chetty, Peter Gabrielsson, Mika Gabrielsson
Our study addresses an inconsistency in the literature on whether a lack of knowledge in early internationalizing firms is an obstacle or an advantage. We integrate learning, capabilities, and improvisation literature to reveal how case firms from New Zealand and Finland internationalize early under uncertainty and time pressure. We develop a process model and propositions to show how firms develop
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Family business and international business: Breaking silos and establishing a rigorous way forward Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Jean-Luc Arregle, Andrea Calabrò, Michael A. Hitt, Liena Kano, Christian Schwens
Over the past decade, a consensus has crystallized recognizing the significance of family firm internationalization in international business (IB) research. This recognition comes with substantial opportunities, yet it also presents challenges, such as the pressing need for a more cohesive integration of the family business and IB domains. In this article, we (re)emphasize the relevance of family firm
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Language-based discrimination in multilingual organizations: A comparative study of migrant professionals’ experiences across physical and virtual spaces Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Hilla Back, Rebecca Piekkari
We compare migrant professionals’ experiences of language-based discrimination across physical and virtual spaces. The minority status of these professionals stems from their foreign origin and lack of proficiency in the local language of their new country of residence. We conducted a case study of a multinational corporation after a shift to remote work triggered by COVID-19. Our findings indicate
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Time matters: Rethinking the role of time in the philosophical, conceptual and methodological domains of international business Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki, Eriikka Paavilainen-Mäntymäki, Melanie Hassett, Peter W. Liesch, Ulf Andersson, Elizabeth L. Rose
The purpose of this editorial, and the special issue, is to initiate a dialogue about the role of time in international business (IB) scholarship. While time is inherent in IB phenomena, it has, to date, received limited attention in IB research and theorizing. When IB scholars do account for time, they generally adhere to assumptions representing time as linear and objective. We discuss the importance
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Unlearning diversity management Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Aneta Hamza-Orlinska, Jolanta Maj, Amanda Shantz, Joana Vassilopoulou
Organizational unlearning occurs when organizations cast-off knowledge, beliefs, or routines. A key assumption is that the discarded information inhibits organizational performance. This view ignores the possibility that organizations may intentionally unlearn practices that are useful for some stakeholders. Using qualitative methods over eight years, we studied the processes by which a subsidiary
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Cross-border acquisition completion by emerging market MNEs revisited: Inductive evidence from a machine learning analysis Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Jianhong Zhang, Arjen van Witteloostuijn, Chaohong Zhou, Shengyang Zhou
Existing empirical studies of cross-border acquisition completion by emerging market multinational enterprises remain highly contextual, yielding inconsistent evidence regarding the determinants of deal success or failure. We apply machine learning to expose underlying complexities. The learning results of LightGBM, from data on 24,693 cross-border acquisition deals involving 29 emerging countries
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To export or to FDI? A configurational approach to family firm internationalization Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-11-26 Maria Lapeira, Georges Samara, Sumit Kundu, Arun Kumaraswamy
Using socioemotional wealth, this study advances our understanding of the various internationalization strategies family businesses adopt by exploring the governance and resource configurations that exist when family firms pursue distinct internationalization strategies. Using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (FsQCA) on a sample of 775 Colombian family firms, our findings reveal a distinct
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The business family as an institutional arbitrageur: Internationalization across institutional contexts Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Ramzi Fathallah, Michael Carney
Much research on family business internationalization centers on the firm but is inattentive to the family behind the firm. We examine how business families internationalize from unstable and fragile institutions. Based on a qualitative multi-case study, we theorize business families as institutional arbitrageurs who facilitate international transactions between incompatible institutional contexts
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Emerging market multinationals’ liability of outsidership Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Nan Zhou
This study investigated how the liability of outsidership affects emerging-market multinationals. We argue that besides lack of access to local networks, lack of access to leadership positions in global value chain networks is another possible source of the liability of outsidership, and it affects emerging market firms more than multinationals from developed countries. Accordingly, multinationals
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Sustainable value creation in multinational enterprises: The role of corporate governance actors Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Nikolaos Kavadis, Niels Hermes, Jana Oehmichen, Alessandro Zattoni, Stav Fainshmidt
Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are increasingly expected to make their global operations sustainable, while overcoming important obstacles in a rugged global landscape. In this perspective article, we argue that a focus on their corporate governance (CG) actors – i.e., owners, directors, and executives – is key for understanding the premises of MNEs’ sustainable value creation. We develop an actor-centered
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Institutional fragility and internationalization of Indian firms: Moderating effects of inward FDI and linkages Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Vikrant Shirodkar, Rishika Nayyar, Sumati Varma
In this paper, using institutional and organizational learning theories, we argue that institutional fragility within India impacts the internationalization of Indian firms such that firms from more fragile regions are likely to have lower internationalization levels. We also suggest that this effect is moderated by inward (industry-level) foreign direct investment (FDI) and inward (firm-level) linkages
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Speaking of diversity: Can linguistic structural differences explain cultural values toward equity, diversity, and inclusion across the globe? Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Karoline M. Summerville, Victor Zitian Chen, Amir Shoham, Vasyl Taras
We theorize that linguistic grammar structures related to gender, pronoun use, and politeness distinctions influence individuals’ cultural values toward diversity, including masculinity, collectivism, and power distance, respectively. Based on first-handed data collected from a large sample of individuals (N = 9,058) who speak various native languages, our analysis shows that languages require speakers
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The interplay of international alliance and subsidiary portfolios: Implications for firms’ innovation and financial performance Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Mariia Koval, Viacheslav Iurkov, Gabriel R.G. Benito
The benefits of having an internationally diverse alliance portfolio are well known. However, the challenges remain overlooked, especially the potential to curb firms’ international expansion beyond such alliances. Building on global connectivity literature, we study how firms’ international footprint through their foreign subsidiaries is affected by the geographical spread of their international alliances
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From cultural intelligence to workgroup inclusion through synchrony preference and perceived workgroup similarity Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Amy E. Randel, Valerie Alexandra
Inclusion is an important consideration for international firms to fully realize their strategic human resources, yet there is limited research on how international business competencies relate to perceived inclusion. This study proposes and tests a social identity-based framework about how cultural intelligence relates to perceived inclusion through the mediating effects of synchrony preference and
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Family firm internationalization and top management team collaboration: Roles, emotional attachment, and risk perceptions Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Julia de Groote, Moritz Feninger, Nadine Kammerlander
This study examines how collaboration within top management teams (TMTs) composed of family owner-managers (FOMs) and nonfamily managers (NFMs) influences internationalization decisions. Based on a qualitative multi-case study, we identify four roles taken by TMT members: drivers (typically FOMs), experts (both FOMs and NFMs), boundary spanners (typically NFMs), and administrators (typically NFMs)
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Escaping the rut: Bridging research on expatriate and organizational newcomer adjustment Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Mihaela Dimitrova, John Kammeyer-Mueller, Margaret A. Shaffer, Marlene Gruber
To ‘escape the rut’ of narrowly focusing on expatriate adjustment as a psychological state, we look to the literature on the adjustment of organizational newcomers. From this perspective, we extend theoretical and empirical concepts regarding dynamic social and proactive development processes into the study of expatriate adjustment. Our integrative review of both literatures provides the basis for
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Exogenous shocks and MNEs: Learning from pandemics, conflicts, and other major disruptions Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-08-19 Luciano Ciravegna, David Ahlstrom, Snejina Michailova, Chang Hoon Oh, Ajai Gaur
Exogenous shocks have long been a feature of the global economy, yet they have become particularly salient in recent years. This Special Issue of the Journal of World Business addresses the shift to a New Normal characterized by frequent events that disrupt the international business context, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict. In this Introduction to the Special Issue, we
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Reconsidering, refashioning, and reconceptualizing research methodology in international business Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Andrew Delios, Catherine Welch, Bo Nielsen, Herman Aguinis, Chris Brewster
We introduce this Journal of World Business special issue on methodological advances in international business (IB) research. Due to technological advances and the availability of bigger, deeper, and multi-level data, there is a need to reconsider, refashion, and reconceptualize IB research methodology. To do so, we discuss ethnography, multilevel modeling, textual analysis and multimodal data, visual
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Do liberal and conservative-leaning CEOs approach de-internationalization differently? Zooming in on the onset of the 2022 Russia/Ukraine crisis Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Yannick Thams, Luis Alfonso Dau
We explore multinationals’ de-internationalization at the onset of the 2022 Russia/Ukraine crisis, based on their CEO's political ideology. Using motivated cognition logic, we propose that the differences between conservative- and liberal-leaning CEOs regarding their attitudes toward change and social justice influence their receptivity to stakeholders’ demands regarding divestment. Using a sample
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CSR as a capability-building response to exogenous shocks by Lebanese MNEs Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Marguerite Eid, Mark Loon
Exogenous shocks have become more frequent in recent years. Responses to one major crisis have often been discussed though there has been little research on now firms can handle multiple shocks, sometimes back-to-back ones. Using Lebanon as a strategic research site, we explore how MNEs’ CSR practice helps them to adapt to multiple exogenous shocks over a period of time. First, employing a process
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Fight or flight? Understanding family firm internationalization when the rules of the game change Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Ivan Miroshnychenko, Kimberly A. Eddleston, Alfredo De Massis
Building on the mixed gamble perspective, we examine family versus nonfamily firms’ propensity to increase or decrease their internationalization in response to different sources of risk. Our framework explains how a firm's mixed gamble calculus of internationalization can change as it adjusts to business, industry, and institutional circumstances. Using an unbalanced panel of 1031 publicly traded
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Using field and quasi experiments and text-based analysis to advance international business theory Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Ravi S. Ramani, Herman Aguinis
Methodological developments are critical for driving theoretical advancements in international business (IB) due to the field's diversity regarding disciplinary, theoretical, and conceptual bases. We provide an accessible introduction to two methodological approaches—one related to design and one to analysis—that are currently underutilized in IB despite their great potential: (a) field and quasi experiments
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Improving subsidiary performance via inpatriate assignments: The role of host country national subsidiary CEOs’ social ties and motivational cultural intelligence Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Samuel Davies, Fabian Jintae Froese, Daniel Han Ming Chng, Fedor Portniagin
Inpatriation experience (i.e., working at headquarters) for host-country national (HCN) subsidiary managers is supposed to be beneficial for foreign subsidiaries’ knowledge transfer and financial performance. Applying upper echelons theory, we investigate whether HCN subsidiary CEOs with inpatriation experience promote knowledge transfer from multinational corporation (MNC) headquarters to their subsidiaries
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Organizational scaling: The role of knowledge spillovers in driving multinational enterprise persistent rapid growth Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Maksim Belitski, Jeff Martin, Tatiana Stettler, William Wales
Based on insights from the spillover, international business, and knowledge management literatures, we study factors that enhance multinational enterprise (MNE) scaling and growth. Viewing MNEs and their employees as potentially rich knowledge sources, we draw attention to MNE-to-MNE knowledge spillover which fuel MNE scaling throughout organizations and employ panel data spanning 44,256 foreign and
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Exit or stay: A critical incident analysis of decision-making in conflict-torn countries Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Arrian A D Cornwell, Emmanuel Ogiemwonyi Arakpogun, Mary E. Thomson
Deploying small world representation logic, we examine the context-specific factors that inform managerial decision-making in conflict-torn countries. Drawing on insights from thirty-one managers, we spotlight nine higher-order heuristics that commonly inform MNEs’ mental representations and their managers’ decision to exit or stay. These heuristics were identified by categorising the commonalities
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Disasters and international business: Insights and recommendations from a systematic review Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Bo Bernhard Nielsen, Heidi Wechtler, Linglin (Gloria) Zheng
Disasters – natural or manmade – are on the rise with far-reaching implications for international business (IB) actors and transactions. While the Covid-19 pandemic has generated much academic interest for its impact on business in general, little effort has been made to consolidate the fragmented research on disasters more broadly in the field of international business. Therefore, it is important
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Scaling digital and non-digital business models in foreign markets: The case of financial advice industry in the United States Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Murad A. Mithani
This study investigates whether a digital business model helps firms internationalize faster. It tests the hypothesis that a digital business model accelerates the rate of internationalization because economies of scale enabled by digitalization exceed those offered by a non-digital business model. Based on analysis of foreign digital and non-digital entrants in the U.S. financial advice industry,
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Time in international strategic alliances: Progress and prospect Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Nuno Oliveira, Fabrice Lumineau, Africa Ariño
Time has significant implications for the functioning of international strategic alliances. Drawing on a systematic review (1943–2022), we consolidate the literature around types of time (i.e., clock, event, cyclical, and life-cycle) and time facets (e.g., duration and speed) in international strategic alliances. This review's findings aid us in developing a temporal-relational framework that intends
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International Business, digital technologies and sustainable development: Connecting the dots Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Francesca Ciulli, Ans Kolk
Building on emerging debates on the ‘dark’ and ‘bright’ side of digital globalization, and calls for considering its environmental and social implications in more detail, this perspective article seeks to ‘unravel’ these components of ‘the digital age’ for International Business (IB). Inspired by the affordance perspective developed in Information Systems research, we offer IB scholars a new approach
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Global employees and exogenous shocks: considering positive psychological capital as a personal resource in international human resource management Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Sina A. Kraus, Benjamin D. Blake, Marion Festing, Margaret A. Shaffer
While positive psychological capital (PsyCap) is a significant antecedent of favorable work outcomes, it is unclear whether this is true for global employees during an exogenous shock. Applying conservation of resources theory, we found that, under conditions of crisis-induced role novelty, global employees leveraged PsyCap to follow a resource-gain route to job satisfaction, whereas their ability
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Absorptive capacity, learning and profiting from outward FDI: Evidence from Canadian firms Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Walid Hejazi, Jianmin Tang, Weimin Wang
The extant literature highlights a threshold productivity level firms are required to attain ex-ante in order to successfully undertake FDI. The current paper extends this framework by modelling a threshold productivity range which is below the required threshold productivity level. Firms in this range can successfully venture abroad when learning allows these firms to rise above that threshold productivity
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Three decades of research on practice transfer in multinational firms: Past contributions and future opportunities Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Johann Fortwengel, Gabriela Gutierrez Huerter O, Tatiana Kostova
The cross-border transfer of practices lies at the heart of how multinational enterprises (MNEs) coordinate their international business activities. Research on transfer has increased substantially over the last three decades and now constitutes a well-established literature. For a systematic analysis, we review a sample of 167 articles published in 18 top journals. We structure these past contributions
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‘How do firms reach out to foreign universities? Inventors’ personal characteristics and the multinational structure of firms’ Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-02-18 Claudio Fassio, Aldo Geuna, Federica Rossi
We analyze the determinants of firm-based inventors’ collaborations with universities abroad, comparing them with collaborations with national universities. We propose a micro-founded theoretical framework that introduces the role of personal linkages and global organizational pipelines as drivers of international academic collaborations, and we empirically investigate collaborations with national
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A framework for a more reflexive engagement with ethnography in International Business Studies Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Jasmin Mahadevan, Fiona Moore
A limited idea of what ethnography involves, and dominant disciplinary ideas of rigour and validity stand in the way of International Business studies engaging more deeply with ethnography. For higher managerial and scholarly relevance, we propose the use of “reflexive engagement”. Reflexive engagement involves the researcher (ethnographer), the research subjects (actors) and those reading the study
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Multinational family firms’ internationalization depth and breadth following the global financial crisis Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-02-03
This study examines how large family firms react to a macroeconomic shock in terms of their internationalization depth and breadth. Building on new internalization theory and acknowledging the dysfunctional manifestations of bifurcation bias in large family-owned MNEs, we argue that an unexpected shock induces family firms to recombine their family firm-specific resources with their thus far underutilized
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International business under sanctions Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Klaus E. Meyer, Tony Fang, Andrei Y. Panibratov, Mike W. Peng, Ajai Gaur
Sanctions are a tool used by political actors to induce foreign countries, firms or individuals to alter their behavior. As nonmilitary coercive measure, they have the potential to disrupt the international business environment, often on short notice, and change the rules of the game. Synthesizing the available evidence on the economic and political impacts of sanctions, we explore how sanctions disrupt
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When does the internationalization process begin? Problematizing temporal boundaries in international business Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Alexandra Kriz, Maria Rumyantseva, Catherine Welch
Recently there has been greater interest among international business researchers in studying processes and their temporal dimensions. We examine one such dimension by problematizing when processes are deemed to commence or end. Reperiodizing the start and end points of a process under study affects the theoretical conclusions about the process itself. We develop a methodology for reperiodization and
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Tapping foreign markets: Construction of legitimacy through market categorization in the internationalizing craft beer industry Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Pavlina Jasovska, Hussain G. Rammal, Carl Rhodes, Danielle Logue
Literature provides insights into various mechanisms for achieving legitimacy via adaptation. Yet we know little about how internationalizing firms can break away from existing legitimacy conventions and still achieve congruence. We investigate how internationalizing firms selectively reconstruct meanings of market categories as sources of legitimacy. We qualitatively examine internationalizing craft
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Knowledge acquisition from host-country partners: The interplay of trust and legal safeguards Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Clarissa E. Weber, Indre Maurer
Acquiring local knowledge from host-country key partners is crucial for internationalizing firms, yet it entails severe risks for both partners. Research thus emphasizes the role of interorganizational trust, but is inconclusive about how effective it is in different contexts. We theorize how different trust dimensions interact with host-country legal safeguards. We test our hypotheses with data on
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Following their predecessors’ journey? A review of EMNE studies and avenues for interdisciplinary inquiry Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Peter J Buckley, Lin Cui, Liang Chen, Yi Li, Yoona Choi
In this review article we take stock of international business (IB) research on emerging economy multinational enterprises (EMNEs) over the past three decades. Our review covers 690 articles published in 64 high-impact peer-reviewed journals between 1990 and 2021 (inclusive). We first present bibliometric findings on some key patterns of this vast body of scholarly work. We then conduct content analysis
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What happens abroad, stays abroad? Exploring how corporate social irresponsibility in domestic and international markets influences corporate reputation Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Giulio Nardella, Irina Surdu, Stephen Brammer
Corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) can occur in the multinational enterprise's (MNE) domestic and international markets, thereby risking corporate reputation. However, are corporate reputations differentially influenced by the location of CSI events? Drawing on the ethnocentric bias perspective, we examine how CSI affects corporate reputations according to whether CSI emerges in the MNE's home
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What's in a word? Adopting a linguistic-style analysis of western MNCs’ global press releases Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Michael Antioco, Kristof Coussement, Chavi Chi-Yun Fletcher-Chen, Christiane Prange
We advance research on the impact of business English as a lingua franca (BELF) on the communication of multinational companies (MNCs). Study 1 helps predict country-level variations of linguistic style in the English language of 2,223 press releases from US, UK, German, and French companies. Press releases are a specific genre of narratives used to engage investors. Study 2 demonstrates in a controlled
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Combining interpretivism and positivism in international business research: The example of the expatriate role Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Juan I. Sanchez, Jaime Bonache, Carmen Paz-Aparicio, Celia Zárraga Oberty
We illustrated how multi-paradigm research that combines the phenomenological interpretive and the positivist paradigms in sequential studies helps problematize questionable assumptions in international business research. While observing the phenomenological principle of epoché (i.e., suspension of researchers’ pre-conceived categories), we interpreted accounts of their lived experience amongst expatriates
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Business model adaptation for realized international scaling of born-digitals Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Irina Mihailova
This study examines the process and mechanisms of realized international scaling of born-digital firms through the business model lens. In an explorative multiple-case study of Finnish firms in cultural industries, it finds that born-digital firms adapt their business models through an iterative process to achieve practically scaled operations. The research unpacks the mechanisms guiding the process
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Rethinking corruption in international business: An empirical review Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Tao Wu, Andrew Delios, Zhaowei Chen, Xin Wang
A reliable understanding of corruption in IB has prescriptive implications for MNEs’ strategies to manage it. We propose three means by which research on corruption can improve its reliability: (i) develop theorizing and empirical modelling on mechanisms at the firm level; (ii) develop conceptual and empirical clarity and alignment on the distinct nature of corruption being investigated (i.e., scale
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(Im)migrants’ appropriation of culture: Reciprocal influence of personal and work contexts Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Bidit L. Dey, Youssef Tarek Nasef, David M Brown, Lalnunpuia Samuel, Pallavi Singh, Chrysostomos Apostolidis
Increasing internationalisation in organisations demands further research on acculturation within international business (IB). Based on triangulated qualitative data on South Asian diasporas’ food consumption in the UK and Bahraini contexts, we introduce two acculturative orientations: essentialism and boundary spanning. We contribute to literature by linking acculturative orientations with relevant
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The impact of board of directors’ characteristics on the internationalization of family SMEs Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Claudia Pongelli, Antonio Majocchi, Jonathan Bauweraerts, Salvatore Sciascia, Matteo Caroli, Alain Verbeke
Family small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face both general bounded rationality challenges and a unique expression of bounded rationality in their internationalization process: the bifurcation bias, a concept aligned with modern transaction cost theory (TCT). We argue that efficient governance in family SMEs, and especially features of the Board of Directors’ composition, can help alleviate
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Strategic agility in international business Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Shlomo Y. Tarba, Jedrzej George Frynas, Yipeng Liu, Geoffrey Wood, Riikka M. Sarala, Stav Fainshmidt
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Weathering storms – Technological exploration of MNCs in times of financial crisis Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2022-11-26 Katarina Blomkvist, Philip Kappen, Ivo Zander
We generate new knowledge about financial crises and their consequences for MNC technological development, thereby addressing a largely uncharted issue at the crossroads of the organization, strategy and international business literatures. Drawing on threat-rigidity theory, we argue that financial crises have an overall negative effect on MNC technological exploration and that the strength of the effect
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How much does host country matter, really? Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Daniel S. Andrews, Klaus E. Meyer
How much does the host country matter in explaining foreign affiliate performance? Using a global sample of 34,708 foreign affiliates operating in 91 host countries, we revisit the relative importance of the host country effect as a performance determinant. Our variance decomposition results suggest that the host country effect is less salient than previously identified, often explaining a small portion
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Institutional unpredictability and foreign exit−reentry dynamics: The moderating role of foreign ownership Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Ryan W. Tang
We extend the internationalization process literature by theorizing how institutional unpredictability and its changes can affect the foreign exit−reentry process and how the multidimensionality of foreign ownership can alter these impacts as a firm's conduit to different foreign countries. Drawing on the dynamic institution-based view, we examine a process whereby firms exit and reenter foreign countries
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MNEs’ transfer of socially irresponsible practices: A replication with new extensions Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2022-11-05 Maoliang Bu, Liang Xu, Ryan W. Tang
We conduct a quasi-replication to re-examine the theoretical arguments and empirical findings in Surroca, Tribo, and Zahra (2013). These authors argued that MNEs transfer socially irresponsible (CSiR) practices from their headquarters to their foreign subsidiaries. Recently, however, dramatic changes in institutional environments, multinationals, and their practices have raised concerns about the validity
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To go or not to go? Opportunities as triggers of commitment to internationalisation Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2022-11-05 Joe Schembri, Margaret Fletcher, Trevor Buck
This paper extends our theoretical understanding of how international opportunities trigger the knowledge-commitment cycle and lead to growth. Longitudinal data from seven international firms was analysed to build a deep, processual understanding of the opportunities developed by the case study firms. Utilizing an abductive approach, the complexities and contextual dynamics of internationalisation
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Natural disasters and MNE internalization: Reoptimizing subsidiary governance Journal of World Business (IF 8.635) Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Gary Bowman, Roxane Foulser-Piggott, Paul W Beamish
Natural disasters pose significant threats to MNEs and their subsidiaries. We evaluate the impact and temporal significance of unsystematic disasters on MNE governance decisions. Focusing on JVs and drawing upon new internalization theory, we assess the significance of parent-subsidiary characteristics and experience after a disaster. Our dataset encompasses 7,938 disaster events across 132 countries