{"title":"Reframing and refocusing for 2023","authors":"Mary B. Teagarden","doi":"10.1002/tie.22316","DOIUrl":"10.1002/tie.22316","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47515,"journal":{"name":"Thunderbird International Business Review","volume":"64 6","pages":"579"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48334050","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 spider web: Defense strategy for emerging market enterprises","authors":"Abdul Qadir Shah","doi":"10.1002/tie.22314","DOIUrl":"10.1002/tie.22314","url":null,"abstract":"<p>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 firms can also cocoon critical resources, expertise, and processes. That will help them not only in winning in the local markets but also in their internationalization processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":47515,"journal":{"name":"Thunderbird International Business Review","volume":"64 6","pages":"617-625"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43907396","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":"How local stakeholder stereotypes impact liability of foreignness and asset of foreignness","authors":"Abiodun (Abi) Ige, Marvin Washington","doi":"10.1002/tie.22312","DOIUrl":"10.1002/tie.22312","url":null,"abstract":"<p>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 remains a gap in our understanding of how local stakeholders evaluate foreign firms. We leverage the stereotype content model, which measures dimensions of warmth and competence, to demonstrate that a foreign firm can enjoy an AOF, suffer from a LOF, or contend with both, depending on stereotypes held by local stakeholders. We associate four different combinations of warmth and competence stereotypes with AOFs and LOFs to reveal that the strategies of foreign firms for managing foreignness should attend to stereotypes held by local stakeholders. Finally, we propose several strategies that foreign firms can employ as they manage unfavorable stereotypes.</p>","PeriodicalId":47515,"journal":{"name":"Thunderbird International Business Review","volume":"64 6","pages":"675-685"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45971966","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":"Unlocking corporate social responsibility in smaller firms: Compliance, conviction, burden, or opportunity?","authors":"Ratna Devi Pillai, Pengji Wang, Adrian T. H. Kuah","doi":"10.1002/tie.22315","DOIUrl":"10.1002/tie.22315","url":null,"abstract":"<p>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 interviews were carried out with 31 firms in Singapore. We found that these firms in highly normative sectors practice CSR due to compliance in the interests of stakeholders. But in less-normative sectors, where regulations and norms are minimal, a majority of firms practice CSR out of conviction. All firms acknowledged that their businesses have a responsibility toward society and our results further revealed the importance of careful stakeholder involvement in these firms.</p>","PeriodicalId":47515,"journal":{"name":"Thunderbird International Business Review","volume":"64 6","pages":"627-646"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/tie.22315","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49311890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"China's outward foreign direct investment in Southeast Asia: Analyzing the Chinese state's strategies and potential influence","authors":"Min-Hua Chiang, Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux","doi":"10.1002/tie.22311","DOIUrl":"10.1002/tie.22311","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Through a comparative study of China's global and regional outward foreign direct investment (OFDI), this article seeks to understand the Chinese state's motives behind such investment, and how it leverages its OFDI to influence the regional economy in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The analysis reveals several findings. First, the status of ASEAN states in China's global OFDI project have changed in the last decade from destinations for infrastructure investment to essential manufacturing hubs. The launch of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) did, in part, allow for this shift, insofar as it diversified the financial channels that facilitate the region's infrastructure development, thereby enabling China to concentrate its OFDI on manufacturing and service linkages throughout the region. Second, whereas China originally directed the majority of its OFDI to low-income ASEAN countries, after 2013, it began to direct greater levels of OFDI to middle and high-income ASEAN countries. This shift did not necessarily grant China greater influence in those countries owing to the much more inward FDI from other developed economies, while China has continued to leverage its OFDI in low-income ASEAN countries to great effect. Third, China might enjoy greater influence in the infrastructure and manufacturing sectors in the region given its greater investment in these two sectors, as compared to that of other developed countries. China's influence in the regional service industry, meanwhile, continues to be less noteworthy, comparatively.</p>","PeriodicalId":47515,"journal":{"name":"Thunderbird International Business Review","volume":"64 6","pages":"581-593"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47812853","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":"Reliability and risk in new ventures: Founding team's native immigrant composition and performance variability","authors":"Kanhaiya K. Sinha, Oleksiy Osiyevskyy","doi":"10.1002/tie.22313","DOIUrl":"10.1002/tie.22313","url":null,"abstract":"<p>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 endeavors are risky, we examine the native/immigration effect on the new venture performance variability. Using new venture data from the Kauffman Firm Survey, we find that the ratio of natives in the founding team is associated with lower mean performance and higher risk in the short and medium term. This means a higher relative number of immigrants in the founding team is associated with higher average performance and lower risk. We further find that the average team age is negatively associated with the short- and medium-term mean performance while positively affecting the short-term performance variability. A higher male–female ratio is positively associated with performance but not with variability.</p>","PeriodicalId":47515,"journal":{"name":"Thunderbird International Business Review","volume":"64 6","pages":"605-616"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51000230","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":"Tourism innovation in Spain and Portugal. João Leitão, Vanessa Ratten, and Vitor BragaSpringer Nature, 2021, ISBN 978-3-030-80732-0","authors":"Thorsten Merkle","doi":"10.1002/tie.22310","DOIUrl":"10.1002/tie.22310","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47515,"journal":{"name":"Thunderbird International Business Review","volume":"64 6","pages":"709-710"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44833371","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":"“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","authors":"Judit Végh, Joyce Jenkins, Marie-Therese Claes","doi":"10.1002/tie.22309","DOIUrl":"10.1002/tie.22309","url":null,"abstract":"<p>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 as a result of the crisis and reveals how family (extended and immediate) topped expatriates' concerns. The study examines if and how support systems worked and looks at coping mechanisms, skills, traits, previous experience, and attitudes which participants found useful. A common theme was “falling between two stools”—where expatriates were ineligible for support in either their home country or in their host country. Others described being “pulled in different directions” or “torn by a dilemma” with pros and cons in either choice. The study contributes to the questions about the future of global work with results of the survey revealing changing norms for expatriation and global mobility raising the possibility of more nuanced approaches to global projects and less binary options for global professionals and their families.</p>","PeriodicalId":47515,"journal":{"name":"Thunderbird International Business Review","volume":"65 1","pages":"21-37"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/tie.22309","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48413940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vijay Pereira, Yama Temouri, Ahmad Arslan, William Y. Degbey, Shlomo Tarba
{"title":"Ambidextrous organizations in and from emerging markets—Editors' special issue introduction","authors":"Vijay Pereira, Yama Temouri, Ahmad Arslan, William Y. Degbey, Shlomo Tarba","doi":"10.1002/tie.22306","DOIUrl":"10.1002/tie.22306","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47515,"journal":{"name":"Thunderbird International Business Review","volume":"64 5","pages":"369-378"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48323730","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":"Extending organizational ambidexterity to emerging markets","authors":"Mary B. Teagarden","doi":"10.1002/tie.22308","DOIUrl":"10.1002/tie.22308","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47515,"journal":{"name":"Thunderbird International Business Review","volume":"64 5","pages":"367"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48384519","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}