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{"title":"Managing artificial intelligence in international business: Toward a research agenda on sustainable production and consumption","authors":"Rakibul Hasan,&nbsp;Arto Ojala","doi":"10.1002/tie.22369","DOIUrl":"10.1002/tie.22369","url":null,"abstract":"<p>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 about the characteristics of AI and how these characteristics can be employed for international expansion at the intersection of sustainable development. In response, our aim is to construct these characteristics by employing directed qualitative content analysis of empirical AI research. Based on our three constructed characteristics of AI, we contribute to current IB literature by providing a framework to balance economic and social goals and utilizing AI for global sustainable development. Further, we provide future IB research themes to guide IB and AI research toward achieving a sustainable production and consumption agenda.</p>","PeriodicalId":47515,"journal":{"name":"Thunderbird International Business Review","volume":"66 2","pages":"151-170"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/tie.22369","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139755392","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":"Blockchain technology applications in retail branding: Insights from retailers in the developing world","authors":"Long Cuu Hoang,&nbsp;Mai Hoang Thi Do,&nbsp;Huy Truong Quang,&nbsp;Thu Hang Hoang","doi":"10.1002/tie.22367","DOIUrl":"10.1002/tie.22367","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The research on blockchain use cases is becoming critical across all disciplines as this technology is expected to transform business processes and their individual operations. However, there is a scarcity of empirical research that focuses on the implication of blockchain applications in retailing and retailers in developing countries. Thus, there are three main aims of our research; first, we explore both the drivers and the barriers for the retailers in developing countries in adopting blockchain technology. Second, we attempt to explore the impacts on the retailers of blockchain technology adoption on their retail brand communication and customer experience. Finally, we examine whether the application of blockchain technology by retailers in developing countries can help to advance the retail brand-customer relationship. The data in this study are collected from 21 semistructured interviews with senior managers, and 3 focus groups with 21 customers from 4 case retailers. Our research is among the first attempts to explore the blockchain technology adoption empirically, and its implications by retailers in developing countries.</p>","PeriodicalId":47515,"journal":{"name":"Thunderbird International Business Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"3-18"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135899849","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":"Leveraging digital transformation and agile slack to integrate team-level I-deals with strategic agility for enhancing international performance","authors":"Tien Dung Luu","doi":"10.1002/tie.22365","DOIUrl":"10.1002/tie.22365","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Purpose</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>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.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Design/methodology/approach</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The study adopted a partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to test the hypotheses based on evidence from 327 teams at 77 export small- and medium-sized enterprises in Vietnam.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Findings</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The findings provide a novel perspective on the critical role of team-level I-deals and strategic agility for thriving small- and medium-sized exporters' international performance via the buffering and transforming firm capabilities, namely digital transformation and agile slack.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Originality/value</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study combines the resource-based view and the dynamic capabilities to examine the impact of firm capabilities with team-level ideals and strategic agility on international performance.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47515,"journal":{"name":"Thunderbird International Business Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"101-122"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49443774","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":"Navigating changes in 2023, looking forward to a new year","authors":"Mary B. Teagarden","doi":"10.1002/tie.22366","DOIUrl":"10.1002/tie.22366","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47515,"journal":{"name":"Thunderbird International Business Review","volume":"65 6","pages":"551"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46371320","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":"Not household names: Emerging market multinationals","authors":"Mary B. Teagarden","doi":"10.1002/tie.22364","DOIUrl":"10.1002/tie.22364","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47515,"journal":{"name":"Thunderbird International Business Review","volume":"65 5","pages":"453"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49589120","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":"Chinese cross-border mergers and acquisitions: How communication practices impact integration outcomes","authors":"Jean Wang,&nbsp;Lars Schweizer","doi":"10.1002/tie.22363","DOIUrl":"10.1002/tie.22363","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study provides an empirical investigation on how communication practices impact the post-acquisition integration outcomes, in the context of Chinese cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CBMAs). We tailored our assessment to reflect communication practices during Chinese CBMA integration. The integration outcomes are measured by organizational commitment and strategic performance improvement. Using a data collected via survey from global executives and middle managers, we find that communication accuracy, channel efficiency, and overseas business management department positively impact organizational commitment. Moreover, inter-organizational trust mediates the effect of communication accuracy on organizational commitment, and communication officer on organizational commitment. In addition, we find that the language barrier of the Chairman negatively impacts strategic performance improvement. Moreover, acquisition experience, business relatedness, industrial investors, private-owned investors, and management consultant all positively affect strategic performance improvement. However, middle managers negatively impact the integration outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":47515,"journal":{"name":"Thunderbird International Business Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"81-99"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/tie.22363","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44003018","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":"Corporate governance transparency: Do firm-level ethics policies and country-level investor protections substitute or complement?","authors":"Thomas Weber,&nbsp;Kaveh Moghaddam,&nbsp;Krista B. Lewellyn,&nbsp;Amirhossein Maleki","doi":"10.1002/tie.22362","DOIUrl":"10.1002/tie.22362","url":null,"abstract":"<p>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 the argument that firms with existing ethics policies exhibit greater corporate governance transparency. We also find that in countries with weaker investor protection, the impact of firm-level ethics policies on corporate governance transparency is stronger. This study advances our understanding of the corporate governance transparency determinants, and the empirical evidence supports the notion that firm-level factors such as ethics policies may compensate for the lack of formal national investor protection regulations.</p>","PeriodicalId":47515,"journal":{"name":"Thunderbird International Business Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"51-63"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43937061","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":"Corruption, formal institutions, and foreign direct investment: The case of OECD countries in Africa","authors":"Salman Bahoo,&nbsp;Ilan Alon,&nbsp;Josanco Floreani,&nbsp;Marco Cucculelli","doi":"10.1002/tie.22361","DOIUrl":"10.1002/tie.22361","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Purpose</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>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.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methodology</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The framework is analyzed using panel data analysis (2001–2018) of bilateral foreign aid and FDI from 18 European members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to 34 African countries.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Findings</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The presents several key findings. First, Africa's level of government corruption harms bilateral FDI from Europe. Second, the OECD's bilateral foreign aid moderates the negative effects of Africa's host-country corruption on FDI. Third, the level of democracy in the host country also moderates the negative impact of corruption on FDI. Finally, foreign aid strongly moderates the negative effect of corruption on FDI in democratic countries compared to non-democratic host countries.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Research Implications</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study provides the institutional analysis that bilateral foreign aid and democracy as formal institutions affect the European multinational enterprises's decision to invest in Africa.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Practical Implications</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>It presents the policy and managerial implications. First, European MNEs managers avoid investing in Africa, and governments must take strict actions to attract FDI. Second, foreign aid and democracy motivate MNEs to invest in Africa. Finally, the OECD policymaker could formulate rigorous and relevant conditions for foreign aid to Africa to reduce corruption.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Originality/Value</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Through the lens of institutional theory and selectorate theory, the novel institutional role of foreign aid and democracy is proposed and tested between the nexus of corruption-FDI.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47515,"journal":{"name":"Thunderbird International Business Review","volume":"65 5","pages":"461-483"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45619882","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":"Entry modes for Chinese enterprises in Latin America","authors":"Francisco Valderrey,&nbsp;Federico Trigos,&nbsp;Evodio Kaltenecker","doi":"10.1002/tie.22357","DOIUrl":"10.1002/tie.22357","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been an important project for President Xi Jinping on foreign soil. The initiative gained momentum through colossal investments in Eurasia and Africa, mainly through infrastructure projects, backed by generous funding from Chinese financial institutions. A few years later, Latin America emerged as a new target for geographically extending the BRI. The region provides sufficient motivation to entice Chinese investors; it is well endowed with natural resources, offers a market of approximately 670 million people, and has many unmet needs. In addition, recent geopolitical reasons such as the ongoing trade war between the United States and China may give Chinese enterprises indirect access to the world's largest consumer market. We present a brief overview of the relationship between China and Latin America, focusing on the mode of entry of Asian companies into these territories. We analyze the primary entry mode of Chinese enterprises and whether they do so through Greenfield Investment (GI) or Mergers and Acquisitions (M&amp;A). For this purpose, we use data from the China Global Investment Tracker. Thus, we intend to provide a complete picture of how public and private Chinese organizations are gaining a foothold in Latin America, and present its managerial implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":47515,"journal":{"name":"Thunderbird International Business Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"33-50"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44912743","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 emerging market multinational Company's internationalization: From original equipment manufacturer to global brand leader","authors":"Su Liu,&nbsp;Dwarka Chakravarty,&nbsp;Paul W. Beamish","doi":"10.1002/tie.22359","DOIUrl":"10.1002/tie.22359","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We examine an emerging market multinational company's (EMNC's) transformation from an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to an original brand manufacturer (OBM) and global leader. Our longitudinal study of Hisense—China's largest TV company (and the world's third largest) spans three decades and involves detailed interviews with over 50 executives. We study how the company's global value chain network evolved, how it reconfigured its organization, upgraded its capabilities, and enhanced its brand reputation. We develop propositions that may contribute to improved explanations for an EMNC's internationalization sequence, development of competitive advantages, overseas management practices, and brand building.</p>","PeriodicalId":47515,"journal":{"name":"Thunderbird International Business Review","volume":"65 5","pages":"501-517"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/tie.22359","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41613267","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}