{"title":"Are Vietnamese Businesses Ready for a Crisis? An Analysis of Crisis Readiness among Vietnamese Businesses","authors":"T. Harcar, John E. Spillan","doi":"10.51240/jibe.2019.2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51240/jibe.2019.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"Crisis management is a management function that tries to mitigate the impact of crisis events when they occur in a business or organization. Since crises are inevitable, it is important that businesses and organizations have crisis management plans ready for the eventuality of a crisis. Little has been written about crisis in emerging nations. As such, this exploratory study investigates the perceptions and experiences of Vietnamese managers regarding crisis preparedness. The results indicate that a majority of the organizations do not have formal crisis management plans. The results of this study suggest that crisis planning at both the organizational and individual level are needed among Vietnamese businesses.","PeriodicalId":102591,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business and Economy","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124676601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning from the Giants: Critical Success Factors for Pharmaceutical EMNEs From India","authors":"Sneha Bhat, K. Momaya","doi":"10.51240/jibe.2019.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51240/jibe.2019.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"Indian pharmaceutical EMNEs, with significant cost competitiveness, have the potential to partially address the vexing problems of global healthcare industry, including rising cost of the healthcare. In this context, we explore the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) of the pharmaceutical industry, which can help firms focus their resources sharply to break-out faster. Using case study method, we studied two global dominant firms for identifying industry CSFs. Product innovation capabilities emerged as the most important CSF, having the potential to provide competitive advantage for long-term competitiveness of the firms. Other two factors that emerged as CSFs are marketing capabilities and financial capabilities. The study contributes to the literature by linking the success factors to firm capabilities and also specifically to international business literature of EMNE capability building. The study also has implications to practitioners in strategic decision making.","PeriodicalId":102591,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business and Economy","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130815006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of Export Promotion Programs on Export Performance: Review of Indian Classical Literature with Special Reference to Economic Reforms","authors":"Rashmi U. Arora, R. Joshi","doi":"10.51240/jibe.2019.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51240/jibe.2019.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"In Indian context, contours of exports promotion as a result of eventual liberalisation of trade policies during the pre and post economic reforms have been captured by several eminent scholars at the macro as well as micro level. However, exclusive studies pertaining to impact of export To develop the understanding about the same, existing literature relating to impact of government promotional measures on export performance has been extensively reviewed in three broad categories. Based on the findings of research work, a structuralized summary and gaps in literature are identified to set the agenda for the future research and conceptual framework in the said area.","PeriodicalId":102591,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business and Economy","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132049778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New Perspective on China's Outward Foreign Direct Investment: The Hypothesis of Super-Ownership Advantage","authors":"Feihu Zheng, Wenyan Yin, Zhiwei Niu","doi":"10.51240/jibe.2019.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51240/jibe.2019.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"-ownership mainstream FDI theories, extended theories proposed by East Asian scholars, and new institutional economics. We argue that under an uncertain environment, when firwithin their capabilities, OFDI based on static and dynamic advantages and country-specific advantages will be effective. On the other hand, when firms in their capabilities, they will pursue OFDI based on a hybrid governance mode, which includes implications for explaining OFDI by Chinese firms and the strategic guidelines for the synergistic interaction between business and government.","PeriodicalId":102591,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business and Economy","volume":"184 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115595733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of Corruption and Institutional Restrictiveness on Entry Strategy: Evidence from Telecommunication Projects in Developing Countriese","authors":"Arash Amirkhany, Pouya Seifzadeh, Isar Kiani","doi":"10.51240/jibe.2019.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51240/jibe.2019.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"This research investigates effects of host country corruption and formal and informal institutional restrictiveness on the entry strategies of foreign multinational enterprises. Using data of over 400 telecommunication projects in developing markets between 2005 and 2011, we find that both formal and informal restrictiveness encourage the MNE to enter using an equity-mode with balanced ownership rather than a wholly owned subsidiary or a partnership with large differential in ownership. However, informal restrictiveness is a stronger force than the formal restrictiveness. We theorize and find a triple interaction effect which shows that this effect is stronger at lower levels than higher levels of informal restrictiveness.","PeriodicalId":102591,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business and Economy","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114376170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International Income Convergence to a Common Trend and Long Run Growth Estimation Using Economic Institutions of OECD Economies","authors":"M. DelVecchio","doi":"10.51240/jibe.2019.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51240/jibe.2019.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"In traditional studies of regional income convergence, the economies are assumed to follow a common long-run trend determined by common technology. For the group of OECD economies, this is a defensible assumption. In this paper, we estimate this long run component by recovering estimates of steady-state levels of output from the standard convergence estimates in a panel data set. We use institutional indicators to help estimate production technology. Results indicate that many OECD economies were above their steady states last decade, explaining the subsequent slower pace of long-run growth.","PeriodicalId":102591,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business and Economy","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128528132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect of National Culture on Budgeting in Ghana","authors":"Randolph Nsor-Ambala","doi":"10.51240/jibe.2019.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51240/jibe.2019.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"This study applies a qualitative approach to examine the moderating effects of national culture on budgeting processes and practices among Ghanaian Multinational Companies. Interview responses from twenty Ghanaian respondents from ten companies were analyzed. Applying logical inferences, the evidence suggests that budgeting processes and practices are affected by the concept of ‘self’, the acceptance of logical contradictions, abstractness in language, high priority for non-verbal communication, the cultural need for receivers of information to be good perspective takers, polychromic, and the prioritization of in-groups among others. This study also describes how Ghanaian respondents weave through ethical dilemmas and form an ethical perspective especially when there are conflicts within and between cultural values and beliefs by prioritizing certain cultural values over others, espousing dissonance and rationalization.","PeriodicalId":102591,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business and Economy","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133936977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Industry Cluster Based Development: A Paradigm with Partial Understanding, The Case of India","authors":"Pragya Bhawsar, Nachiket Gosavi","doi":"10.51240/jibe.2019.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51240/jibe.2019.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"City-based industry clusters represent the nodes of economic productions as well as lays the ground for policy experimentation. The popularity of clusters as a concept is attributed to the positive effects of contiguity it offers to all the constituting firms. Despite this notable fact, in India, citybased industrial clusters have failed to achieve attention for policy per se. By and large, the policy thinking has primarily remained focused either to the industry classification or to the geographical state boundaries or by the nature/size of the firms. This article organizes the discussion in the context of the key theme of cluster-based schemes and policy implementation in India. In order to ascertain the doctrine of a distinct policy aimed at clusters, Kendall’s Tau test was conducted on a sample of 126 firms belonging to four industry clusters. The result of the study suggests that in India, there exists sufficient scope for local city-based industry cluster policy. The article concludes by suggesting a few recommendations.","PeriodicalId":102591,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business and Economy","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133752262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Empirical Analysis of Determinants of Dividend Policy of Indian Real Estate Sector","authors":"R. Sharma","doi":"10.51240/jibe.2019.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51240/jibe.2019.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies the determinants of dividend policy by analyzing the 125 real estate companies in India. To find out what determines dividend policy, ten firm-level explanatory variables are selected and regressed against the dividend policy measure dividend payout ratio. This study employs three measures of panel data analysis to discover the important determinants of the dividend payout ratio. Empirical findings indicate that firm risk as measured through price-earnings ratio (P/E Ratio), previous dividend, investment opportunities, and profitability have positive associated with a dividend payout ratio of selected real estate firms. On the other hand, the size of the firm, leverage, and liquidity significantly affect dividend payout ratios, and these variables have a negative relationship with a dividend payout ratio of the selected real estate firms. The present study shall be useful to different stakeholders of real estate companies.","PeriodicalId":102591,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business and Economy","volume":"27 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114106116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrating Strategy and Culture: The Culture of Dedication in Samsung Electronics and Apple Inc.","authors":"Pulum Kim","doi":"10.51240/jibe.2019.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51240/jibe.2019.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"This study addresses the benefits and shortcomings of the organizational culture models employing organizational effectiveness and competitive advantage theories. Following the critical analysis of preceding literature, this study discusses the benefits of an integrative approach as demonstrated by the ABCD model for conceptualizing organizational culture for practitioners to proactively manage culture for enhanced firm performance. Also, by focusing on the sequential dynamics of ABCD model which denotes dedication as the originating point, this paper explores how the findings from organizational behavior can be integrated with the ABCD model to create a competitive corporate culture. For this purpose, Samsung Electronics and Apple Inc.’s leadership and human resource policies are and initial conditions that facilitate the creation of competitive culture are introduced through a qualitative case study approach.","PeriodicalId":102591,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business and Economy","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126029898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}