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Navigating trust: The clash of clan culture and conventional management Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Alfredo Behrens
How does a mismatch between management and cultural norms lead to decreased engagement and productivity? Within both Germanic and Mediterranean cultural spheres, trust dynamics mirror deeply ingrained kinship patterns, which evolve slowly over time. The inclination to trust within one's own kin group is notably stronger among Mediterranean populations compared to their Germanic counterparts. Even as
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Towards understanding the failure of new public management in the MENA region: Are informal networks to blame? Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Fadi Alsarhan, Arwa Al‐Twal
This study aims to understand the main factors that contribute to the failure of implementing New Public Management (NPM) plans, as well as to investigate the potential link between informal networks, namely wasta, and this failure in organizations across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA region), with Jordanian public organizations taken as an illustrative case. A qualitative approach was applied
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Learning from artificial intelligence researchers about international business implications Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Vanessa Ratten, Rakibul Hasan, Deepak Kumar, John Bustard, Arto Ojala, Yashar Salamzadeh
Artificial intelligence is a dynamic and emerging form of technological innovation that has numerous ramifications for international business managers. The aim of this article is to obtain commentary from researchers about the role artificial intelligence will play in the global arena. This includes asking questions about how it will affect internationalization processes and whether it will lead to
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Artificial intelligence in international business Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Vanessa Ratten, Paul Jones, Vitor Braga
Artificial intelligence is poised to transform international business through the adoption of new digital technology practices as part of the fourth industrial revolution. The how, when, and why of artificial intelligence implementation in international business is still somewhat unknown but will likely significantly influence performance outcomes, market interpretation, risk prediction, consumer interactions
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How can virtual and augmented reality facilitate international business? Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Nir Kshetri, Yogesh K. Dwivedi
While extensive research has explored the internet's role in internationalization, there is limited understanding of how augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) contribute. Our objective is to address and fill this gap by investigating the roles of AR and VR in international expansion of services and cultural products. The paper addresses facilitators and barriers for the use of these technologies
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Artificial intelligence for international business: Its use, challenges, and suggestions for future research and practice Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Jane Menzies, Bianka Sabert, Rohail Hassan, Prince Kofi Mensah
The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed global business, aiding operational efficiency and innovation. It utilizes machine learning and big data analytics, driving predictive market trends and strategic decision-making. However, despite the rising discussion and accessibility of AI tools, understanding its impact on international business remains limited. This article explores
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Mapping the ethic-theoretical foundations of artificial intelligence research Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Gareth R. T. White, Anthony Samuel, Paul Jones, Naveen Madhavan, Ademola Afolayan, Ahmed Abdullah, Tanmay Kaushik
The issue of artificial intelligence (AI) ethics is a prominent research subject. While there is a compendious literature that explores this area, surprisingly little of it makes explicit reference to the ethic-theoretical foundations upon which it is built. To address this matter, this study makes an examination of the AI ethics literature to identify its ethic-theoretical foundations. The study identifies
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Managing artificial intelligence in international business: Toward a research agenda on sustainable production and consumption Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Rakibul Hasan, Arto Ojala
The collaboration between artificial intelligence (AI) and humans is reshaping international business (IB) management dynamics, aiming to achieve global sustainable development. Recent IB literature indicates that managing AI brings benefits such as better resource reconfiguration, reduced transaction costs, and global sustainable development. However, existing IB literature provides only meager knowledge
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Technological barriers to creating regional resilience in digital platform-based firms: Compound of performance sensitivity analysis and BIRCH algorithm Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Aidin Salamzadeh, Leo-Paul Dana, Pejman Ebrahimi, Morteza Hadizadeh, Samira Mortazavi
Entrepreneurial ventures face various problems contributing to the regional resilience of their districts. Among such firms are digital platform-based businesses that could have exponential impacts—indeed, if they succeed in overcoming the barriers. Thus, this study aims to identify the major technological barriers to creating regional resilience in Iran's innovation districts. This study uses the
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Leveraging digital transformation and agile slack to integrate team-level I-deals with strategic agility for enhancing international performance Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Tien Dung Luu
The article aims to trace how small- and medium-sized export enterprises thrive in international performance by leveraging potential human resources from team-level idiosyncratic employment arrangements (I-deals) and organizational capability from strategic agility through digital transformation and agile slack.
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Corporate governance transparency: Do firm-level ethics policies and country-level investor protections substitute or complement? Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Thomas Weber, Kaveh Moghaddam, Krista B. Lewellyn, Amirhossein Maleki
This study empirically investigates the direct and interactive effects of firm-level ethics policies and country-level investor protection on firm corporate governance transparency. Using data on 9298 firms collected from the Bloomberg Terminal, we find that there is a positive relationship between country-level investor protection and firm corporate governance transparency. The results also support
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Corruption, formal institutions, and foreign direct investment: The case of OECD countries in Africa Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Salman Bahoo, Ilan Alon, Josanco Floreani, Marco Cucculelli
Corruption has shown a mixed impact on foreign direct investment (FDI). This study proposed moderating the role of two—foreign aid (international institution) from the home country and democracy (national institution) in the host country—between corruption-FDI nexus.
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Emerging market multinational corporations' cross-border mergers and acquisitions and political distance: Does corporate political activity matter? Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Lee Warren Brown, Ru-Shiun Liou, Dinesh Hasija
Due to rising anti-globalization sentiment, emerging market multinational corporations (EMNCs) face additional challenges in conducting cross-border mergers and acquisitions, particularly in the developed markets. Built on institutional theory, we specifically examine how political distance, representing host–home country differences in various attributes in the political environment, influences the
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Liabilities of origin and its influence on firm's corporate social performance? A study of emerging market multinational corporations Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Ajith Venugopal, Marwan Al-Shammari, Prasad M. V. Thotapalli, Mohammad Fuad
This study draws upon the institutional-based view to examine how home country institutional voids affect the corporate social performance (CSP) of emerging market multinational corporations (EMNCs). We propose that home country institutional voids of EMNCs are positively related to CSP. We also argue that EMNCs' internationalization and visibility will further augment the above relationships. We tested
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Ownership effects on direction of multinationality: Evidence from Indian EMNEs Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Arindam Mondal, Apalak Khatua
An essential yet challenging decision that emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs) must make when setting up a subsidiary abroad is whether to do it in developed or emerging market economies. The extant literature has rarely probed what influences the location choice of EMNEs' outward investments. This paper aims to address this gap and hypothesizes that large shareholdings by promoters or
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Interaction of home and host countries' institutional conditions: An analysis of greenfield projects by Latin American firms Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Jorge Alcaraz, Dominique Mazé, Ricardo E. Buitrago R.
Studying firms from emerging economies has been receiving more attention in recent decades. However, the host- and home-country perspectives have allowed understanding, to a significant extent, of the firms' expansion abroad. We argue the necessity of investigating the interaction of home and host-country institutional conditions to advance the understanding of the internationalization strategies of
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Multinationals from emerging economies: Strategies, challenges, and the way forward Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2023-06-17 Abdul A. Rasheed, Zafar U. Ahmed
Multinationals from emerging economies are relatively new players in the global economy. This Special Issue includes five articles that cover several important aspects of the market and nonmarket strategies pursued by emerging market multinational corporations (EMNCs). Given that only a few firms from emerging markets embrace the possibilities and challenges of going global, we highlight the need to
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Conceptualizing CSR as innovative adoption by MNCs from emerging Asian economies Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Abdullah Al-Mamun, Sawlat Zaman
Two frequently researched fundamental factors in the recent business arena are corporate governance and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Though the earlier is globalized in various aspects, the latter is still traditionally identified as a Western practice for corporations. This research paper argues that Multi-national Corporations (MNCs) from emerging economies contribute to their parent country's
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Navigating wasta in business practices in Lebanon Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Rima Y. Helal, Sa'ad Ali, Sophie Strecker, David Weir
Faced with severe social, political, and economic challenges, Lebanon is described as a weak state. Argued to be a key factor weakening the formal institutions there, is the prevalent practice of wasta. This article seeks to answer two questions: (1) Why is wasta prevalent in a business environment characterised by weak formal institutions, such as Lebanon? (2) How can managers navigate the use of
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The effect of foreign knowledge acquisition on international performance: The mediating roles of international orientation and business model innovation Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Samuel Adomako
Research on how business model innovation (BMI) in international markets affects international performance continues to proliferate. However, existing research is sparse on primary predictors of this relationship. Drawing upon knowledge creation theory, this article investigates a serial mediation model that supports the role of the indirect effects of foreign knowledge acquisition (FKA) via international
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Outward foreign investment by transnational entrepreneurs: Insights from emerging economies Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Thomas G. Pittz
This research considers how transnational entrepreneurs in emerging economies identify and develop opportunities for investment into international ventures. Specifically, this study seeks to identify common drivers for outward investment by transnational entrepreneurs from their country of origin (Brazil and India) to their adopted country (the US). Findings indicate three common drivers of this type
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How to identify the canaries that might save the organizations: Mapping the most curiosity-oriented in Brazil Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Thais Amaral, Alfredo Behrens
This study explores the effectiveness of international instruments for identifying the curious and alerts us to the relative ineffectiveness of foreign instruments to map the curious in Brazil. We used indirect questions to better map the most curious collaborators at Brazilian organizations. We believe our instrument eludes the Brazilian bias for impression management. Our sample covered 384 respondents
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Gender and climate change: A sustainable tourism perspective Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Vanessa Ratten
The aim of this article is to examine whether female tourism entrepreneurs are more interested in climate change than male entrepreneurs are as part of their focus on sustainable entrepreneurial endeavors. A qualitative study of female tourism entrepreneurs is examined that focuses on three main climate change strategies: conservative, compliant, and proactive. The findings suggest that female tourism
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A global perspective on combating Shanzhai products: Cross-cultural solutions Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Yao Qin, Lei Song, Linda Hui Shi, Kang (Frank) Tan
To compete on the world market, companies from emerging economies often adapt their innovations to satisfy unique cultural needs. They do so, in part, by copying the products of their western counterparts with a degree of modification. This approach is referred to as Shanzhai, which is a Chinese neologism meaning “copycat.” In this article, we discuss the Shanzhai phenomenon and explain Shanzhai's
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The role of networks and capabilities in the internationalization of SMEs in North Africa: The case of Egyptian SMEs Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Amira Aldibiki, Raghda El Ebrashi
This research studies the role of networks in the internationalization of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in an emerging country; mediated by internationalization capabilities. Self-administered surveys targeting 300 SMEs in Egypt were employed, and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to test the proposed hypotheses. The results indicated that nonbusiness institutional networks have a direct
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Financial inclusion, economic freedom and financial stability in sub-Saharan Africa Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Siaw Frimpong, Mawusi Ayisat Yusuf, Ebenezer Boateng, Kwadwo Ankomah, Mac Junior Abeka
The study examines the role of economic freedom in the relationship between financial inclusion and stability in sub-Saharan African economies. By employing the System General Method of Moment and data from 39 sub-Saharan African countries between 2004 and 2017, the study examines whether economic freedom (i.e., financial and business freedom) conditions the effect of financial inclusion on stability
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Digital innovation: An essence for Industry 4.0 Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Minisha Gupta, Sunil Kumar Jauhar
The goal of this paper is to explain why digital innovation is so important in business organizations in order to survive in Industry 4.0. The study helps to understand the new era of Industry 4.0 and the importance of introducing digital innovation into organizations. A systematic review of the literature and studies on Industry 4.0 and digital innovation were synthesized to find answers to the research
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The demise of the American hegemony in international business research has been greatly exaggerated Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Alfredo Behrens
The drivers for the internationalization of business teaching and research were multinational corporations, the Cold War, and the relative price advantage of non-America business schools. Yet, the internationalization largely failed to reflect local contexts. The consequent paucity of original local business thought, international or not, exposes non-American business schools to the raid of American-based
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Identification with cartoon characters across cultures suggests better fit for appointments at subsidiaries Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Alfredo Behrens
Caucasian Anglophones tend to side with the Coyote while Latin Americans, Indians, and Iberians with the Roadrunner. The Roadrunner types claim to dislike being led by Coyote types, and that is probably what they get at subsidiaries, because the heads of subsidiaries are likely to be appointed by Anglophone Coyote-type bosses. Among the Seligman virtues, Justice and Courage show the greatest cleavage
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W(h)ither U.S. hegemony in international business research? Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2023-01-22 Grigorios Livanis, J. Michael Geringer
Researchers have suggested a transition from historical hegemony by authors and institutions from the U.S. is underway, reflecting an internationalization of IB research. These studies indicate that European and Asia-Pacific business schools and their faculty members are helping to lead this transition.
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The creation and diffusion of international business research Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2023-01-15 Peter J. Buckley
“W(h)ither U.S. Hegemony in International Business Research?” by Grigorios Livanis and Michael Geringer, is an excellent effort to encompass the growth of international business (IB) scholarly research worldwide. This commentary examines the implicit assumptions and models of their analysis, showing that IB models are useful in explaining the scholarly growth of IB.
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U.S. hegemony and international business research: Further considerations Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2023-01-14 J. Michael Geringer, Grigorios Livanis
The commentaries in this issue raise many insightful questions and considerations regarding the Livanis and Geringer (Thunderbird International Business Review, 2023, 64) study and we address a few of these. In particular, we focus on the following five areas: (i) the relationship of international business (IB) publications with the English language, (ii) resource constraints and IB research, (iii)
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Institutional determinants of ownership stake in cross-border acquisitions in Africa: The moderating role of geographic distance Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Katia M. Galdino, Kimberly M. Ellis, Bruce T. Lamont, Africa Ariño
We look at how emerging markets' institutional features affect ownership stake in cross-border acquisitions (CBAs) within Africa. Particularly, we show that the presence of shared colonial history between the home and host country and the extent of fractionalization distance and formal institutional distance influence the acquiring firm's decision regarding its ownership stake in the target. Moreover
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The impact of kidnapping on foreign ownership of firms in Nigeria Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Obiajulu Ede, Godwin Okafor
Nigeria is one of the countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) that has faced high incidents of kidnapping. As a result of that, some studies have investigated its determinants and economic consequences in Nigeria. However, no study is yet to investigate its impact on the foreign ownership of firms. This is a research void that this article has attempted to fill. Using the World Bank Enterprise Survey
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On the role and nature of alliance management capability in family business: Empirical evidence from a developing market Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Abdalhamed Nasr, Omar Al-Tabbaa
Despite the research on alliance management capability (AMC) has evolved in recent years, we still lack a clear understanding of its antecedents and performance outcomes in the context of family businesses, a setting that is inherently different from a typical firm-to-firm corporation. Collecting data from the Libyan family firms sector, we found that alliance experience, family culture (as internal
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Privatized espionage: NSO Group Technologies and its Pegasus spyware Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Sean D. Kaster, Prescott C. Ensign
Advanced cyber technology like NSO Group Technologies' (NSO) controversial Pegasus spyware blurs distinctions between “good” and “bad.” This case follows the Israeli-based international leader in cyber espionage and developer NSO and one of its co-founders, Shalev Hulio from its creation in 2010 to the present. It includes NSO's acquisition by US-based private equity fund Francisco Partners in 2014
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Where might brewers make better managers than MBAs? Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Alfredo Behrens
The cross-cultural analysis is largely bounded to countries, as organizational culture analysis is to corporations. This exploratory analysis brings the two together to signal what leadership styles might fit best in which markets. Populations tending to selflessness and obedience might respond more poorly to typical MBA-trained business leaders.
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The Ukraine/Russia conflict: Geopolitical and international business strategies Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Vanessa Ratten
The Ukraine and Russian conflict is one of the most pressing current global business issues. It has become a political and social issue that is influencing business practices around the world. While the topic is popular in the mainstream business press, there has been relatively little academic work on the topic. To address this gap, this article discusses the impact of the conflict on international
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Next-generation entrepreneurial identity in family business systems: The influence of role-changing events on the understanding of legacy, individual identity, and transgenerational entrepreneurship of next-generation family business principals Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Alexander Friedrich Bergfeld, Marc-Michael Bergfeld
The paper addresses how the understanding of family business legacy, individual identity, and transgenerational entrepreneurship of next-generation principals is affected by role changing events in family business systems. The paper uses the insights of a focus group of 38 next-generation family business principals of ultrahigh-net-worth business families from 14 countries. It corroborates that parents
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The spider web: Defense strategy for emerging market enterprises Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2022-09-11 Abdul Qadir Shah
This article synthesizes literature-based anecdotal evidence and showcases a comprehensive defense strategy, the spider web strategy, for emerging market enterprises against developed market's multinational enterprises in the emerging market space. Just like the spider web, the spider web strategy delineates how local firms can defeat entering multinationals using local reality and gambits. The local
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Unlocking corporate social responsibility in smaller firms: Compliance, conviction, burden, or opportunity? Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Ratna Devi Pillai, Pengji Wang, Adrian T. H. Kuah
There is a recognition that corporate social responsibility (CSR) by smaller firms could have greater social and environmental impacts if these engagements are meaningful. Small firms are players in the global eco-system as they supply to larger global firms as subcontractors or suppliers. However, do they practice CSR with a conviction or as a compliance measure? Using stakeholder theory, in-depth
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How local stakeholder stereotypes impact liability of foreignness and asset of foreignness Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Abiodun (Abi) Ige, Marvin Washington
While it is well known that there are liabilities of foreignness (LOFs) that impact firms as they enter foreign markets, it is less well known how stereotypes held by local stakeholders impact LOFs of foreign firms. Recent research has demonstrated that foreignness can offer benefits, or assets of foreignness (AOFs), for firms as they enter foreign markets. While research is growing in this area, there
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Reliability and risk in new ventures: Founding team's native immigrant composition and performance variability Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Kanhaiya K. Sinha, Oleksiy Osiyevskyy
The study examines the performance and the risks of new ventures founded by hybrid teams consisting of immigrants and natives. Earlier investigations have taken a dichotomous view of immigrants in the founding team without paying sufficient attention to their relative numbers. We argue that the numeric strength of immigrants in the founding team affects firms' average performance. Furthermore, as entrepreneurial
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“Should I stay or should I go?”—Why the future of global work may be less binary: Lessons on approaches to global crises from the experiences of expatriates during the COVID-19 pandemic Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Judit Végh, Joyce Jenkins, Marie-Therese Claes
COVID-19 has significantly impacted expatriates, affecting their ability to work effectively and their personal and family lives. This study explores their experiences in different phases of the pandemic, and their perspectives on the future of international living in light of such global disruption. Involving over 600 expatriates in 48 countries, the research shows shifts in motivation and priorities
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Commitment based human resources practices and knowledge creation in ambidextrous organizations: A moderated mediation study on expatriates working in India Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Sunanda Nayak, Jyotsna Bhatnagar, Pawan Budhwar, Jaydeep Mukherjee
Through the lens of organizational learning theory, we develop and test a moderated mediation model of commitment-based HR practices (CBHRP), absorptive capacity, organization structure and routines, and knowledge creation in ambidextrous organizations. We test two new individual-level dimensions of absorptive capacity (AC) in ambidextrous organizations: ambidexterity and flow experience. This empirical
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Social capital, information sharing, ambidexterity, and performance for technology park firms in Turkey Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2022-07-12 Syeda Nazli Wasti, Hilal Terzi, Feyza Kerti
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in uncertain emerging markets tend to pursue exploitation at the expense of exploration. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether social capital can alleviate this imbalance by supporting the firms' ambidexterity, and thus the performance of such firms. Using survey data from high-tech SMEs in Turkish technoparks, Phase 1 of the study tests a mainstream
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Has the acceleration of privatization become inevitable in Bahrain? Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2022-07-09 Anis Khayati
Bahrain remains the most vulnerable Gulf country due to its limited savings and sharp rise in debt levels, leaving it exposed to high financing risks. The financial crisis has been deepened by the economic double blow of the decline in oil prices and the effects resulting from the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Bahrain has decreased subsidies and increased taxes on many products. Those measures
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COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine nationalism and counterfeit products: Discourse and emerging research themes Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Joseph Amankwah-Amoah, Robert E. Hinson
Although “vaccine nationalism” and vaccine diplomacy have thus far typified the COVID-19 vaccine rollouts around the globe, there remain limited scholarly insights on global vaccine distribution strategies. This research note (RN) examines the global vaccine distribution strategies and implications for public policy and governments. In conceptualizing the global vaccine distribution strategies into
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Private credit in dual banking countries: Does bank ownership type matter? Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Nazrul Hazizi Noordin, Mohamed Eskandar Shah Mohd Rasid, Mansor H. Ibrahim
This study investigates how the effects of government and foreign bank ownership on private credit vary in the cases of Islamic and conventional banks using data extended from Claessens and van Horen (2014) of 29 dual banking countries from 1995 to 2017. In support of the political view of financial development, we find that the presence of state-owned Islamic banks seem to be slightly less harmful
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The interplay between home and host institutions on CBA ownership decision Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Juliano Krug, Christian Daniel Falaster
Cross-border acquisitions (CBAs) are one of the key strategies for internationalization. However, most of what is known about CBA strategies relies on the effects of the host country's environment or the home country's conditions. In this article, we analyze the interplay between these two important factors. We show that companies from less institutionally developed countries are more influenced by
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A change management roadmap for wasta-free managerial practices in Arab organizations Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Fadi Alsarhan
Wasta, which is the typical informal network style pervasive in the Arab world, has long been believed to constitute an intrinsic feature of managerial activities and practices in Arab organizations. With a long and intertwined history on one side, and a large widespread on the other, this practice seems near impossible to dissociate from the social and professional landscape of this part of the world
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A typology of Mexican highly educated immigrant entrepreneurs in the United States Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Elizabeth Salamanca, Jorge Alcaraz
This study develops a typology of highly educated Mexican immigrant entrepreneurs living in the United States (U.S.) based on their personal resources, motivations and social capital, and the U.S. institutional challenges they face. An exploratory qualitative analysis was conducted by examining 25 in-depth interviews with Mexican immigrant entrepreneurs and opinion leaders in the United States. The
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Final global leadership development program (GLDP) design: Where do we go from here? Global evidence from Europe, the US, and Brazil Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Jörg Hruby, Paulo Almeida, Christina Hoeft
The development of high potentials within global companies remains a challenge in leadership development in the face of increasingly dynamic environments. Despite this, we know surprisingly little about the practices business schools and corporations follow when it comes to Global Leadership Development Programs (GLDP). In this article, we derive critical success factors of the components of a GLDP
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Who creates international marketing agility? Diasporic agility guiding new market entry processes in emerging contexts Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Maria Elo, Susana Silva
International marketing agility is a crucial dynamic capability in international business. The purpose of this article is to examine who creates it and how exporters and partners leverage diasporic agility. We employ case study research on two diaspora entrepreneurs acting as ambidextrous strategic channel partners and playing a central role in guiding the exporter to new markets. In both cases, the
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The role of satisfaction in labor diaspora dynamics: An analysis of BREXIT effects Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2022-06-02 Maria Elo, Susana C. Silva, Božidar Vlačić
In diaspora research, people's international mobility is often understood as a response to pull-push forces on an economic macro-level or as part of diasporic waves. However, labor diaspora formations are also influenced by micro-level (i.e., individual perceptions) drivers related to work per se, such as satisfaction. This explorative qualitative study takes a novel angle and focuses on the role of
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Interfirm cooperatives enabling organizational ambidexterity, a case study of the printing industry in Colombia Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2022-05-29 Andres Felipe Camargo Benavides, Michel Ehrenhard, Matthias De Visser, Petra C. de Weerd-Nederhof
Research into organizational ambidexterity at the interorganizational level is limited, but it is even more scarce when considering emerging markets and alternative organizational forms such as the cooperative enterprise. We will attempt to fill these research gaps by offering in-depth case studies of three interfirm cooperatives within the printing industry in Colombia. We analyze how interfirm cooperatives
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Wind of change brought by COVID-19: Exploring the response and the new normal from the perspectives of Indian flexpatriates Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2022-05-28 Santoshi Sengupta, Parth Patel, Syed Mohyuddin, Verma Prikshat, J. Irudhaya Rajesh, Vishal Rana
Drawing from the positive organizational change theory, this paper aims to explore how Indian flexpatriates responded to the change brought by the pandemic of COVID-19 and what is the new normal according to them. Thematic analysis of 19 in-depth interviews with flexpatriates from the IT industry revealed four explicit phases of change process – reflection, communication, collaboration, and transformation
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A multi-dimensional analysis of the subjective well-being of self-initiated expatriates: The case of Nigerian expatriates in Germany Thunderbird International Business Review Pub Date : 2022-05-22 Hemant Merchant, Rekha Rao-Nicholson, Eromosele Golden Iheikhena
This paper examines the role of four types of influences on the Subjective Well-Being of Nigerian self-initiated expatriates in Germany: (1) Individual, (2) Group, (3) Social, and (4) Organizational. Based on survey data from 377 respondents, we find that variables in all four categories influence subjective well-being. Our findings generally agree with the results predicted by the theory, albeit a