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Towards the co-evolution of multinationals' and local firms' global strategies in an uncertain environment: Insights from International Joint Ventures 不确定环境下跨国公司和本土公司全球战略的共同演变:来自国际合资企业的见解

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Journal of International Management Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2023.101089

Jihene Cherbib , Fadia Bahri , Sarra Berraies , Hela Chebbi

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Managing mentoring for the labor market integration of humanitarian migrants 管理人道主义移民融入劳动力市场的指导工作

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Journal of International Management Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2023.101062

Sylvie Chevrier , Elise Goiseau , Peter Lugosi , Jean-François Rase

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Transient entrepreneurs?: Chinese migrant small commercial businesses in South Africa 瞬态企业家?:中国移民在南非的小型商业企业

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Journal of International Management Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2023.101094

Geoffrey Wood , Fang Lee Cooke

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Achieving Global Convergence? Integrating disruptive technologies within evolving SME business models: A micro-level lens 实现全球融合?在不断发展的中小企业商业模式中整合颠覆性技术:微观层面的视角

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Journal of International Management Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2023.101095

Veronica Scuotto , Robert James Crammond , Alan Murray , Manlio Del Giudice

{"title":"Achieving Global Convergence? Integrating disruptive technologies within evolving SME business models: A micro-level lens","authors":"Veronica Scuotto , Robert James Crammond , Alan Murray , Manlio Del Giudice","doi":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intman.2023.101095","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This research responds to the call on global convergence in the international business management domain. Global convergence requires new evolutionary, devolutionary and even revolutionary strategies that are framed in the context of digital transformation. The digital transformation phenomenon has led to different theoretical and managerial perspectives on disruptive technologies provoking the need for more studies on the integration of such technologies within SMEs ecosystem-based business models (EBBMs). In this vein, by adopting a micro-level lens, this research examines 718 managers from SMEs in Europe who have already embraced the digital transformation process and have bonded physical and digital ecosystems. The results are analysed through the application of logistic regression analysis.</p><p>A notable contribution of this study is the development of a new model which articulates the relationship between substantive capability, adaptation capability and change capability in the SME.</p><p>The study articulates how these work, support and facilitate disruptive technology integration in EBBM and suggests a method for their evaluation. As emerged the consideration that DCs are not replicable is supported and so it has been shown that technologies cannot replace human beings in their transformation business capabilities. This addresses the evolutionary change of global convergence generated by disruptive technologies that: 1. empower individual skills; 2. develops renewed strategies for enhancing network capabilities and; 3. allows the exploring and exploiting of opportunities from the influence of EBBM.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47937,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138475225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The role of context in the psychological contract of skilled migrants 背景在技术移民心理契约中的作用

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Journal of International Management Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2023.101081

Renata Casado, Donella Caspersz

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Mapping the barriers to socio-economic freedom in internationalisation of women-owned SMEs: Evidence from a developing country 绘制女性拥有的中小企业国际化中社会经济自由的障碍:来自发展中国家的证据

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Journal of International Management Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2023.101067

Mansura Akter , Shahriar Akter , Mahfuzur Rahman , Constantinos Vasilios Priporas

{"title":"Mapping the barriers to socio-economic freedom in internationalisation of women-owned SMEs: Evidence from a developing country","authors":"Mansura Akter , Shahriar Akter , Mahfuzur Rahman , Constantinos Vasilios Priporas","doi":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101067","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101067","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Internationalisation of women-owned firms is considered a new strategy for unlocking the full economic potential of a country. However, there has been a desultory work on gender and trade, particularly the epistemological and methodological approaches to explore this phenomenon, which has received inadequate attention. Drawing on the institution-based- theory and incorporating the feminist perspective, this study identifies barriers to socio-economic freedom as a multidimensional concept that influences the internationalisation of women entrepreneurship. Using mixed methods and based on findings from focus group discussion (study-1), in-depth interviews (study-2) and a survey (study-3) of SME women entrepreneurs, the study develops and validates a gender-specific model of barriers to socio-economic freedom that women entrepreneurs face in the internationalisation of their firms. The findings confirm that the additional barriers that women entrepreneurs face emerge from three dimensions (i.e. socio-interactional patterns, socio-psychological attachment and socio-cultural embeddedness) that influence the internationalisation of women-owned SMEs through the lack of foreign market knowledge and information and lack of international business experience. This study extends internationalisation and women entrepreneurship research by identifying novel dimensions of the barriers to socio-economic freedom landscape. Implications of our findings for theory, methods and practice with limitations and future research directions are discussed critically.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47937,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1075425323000649/pdfft?md5=30ec2d53c8e63c029a581503073aed69&pid=1-s2.0-S1075425323000649-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135347657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Smoke signal: When firms' patent strategy and local patent protection system affect equity stakes in cross-border acquisitions 烟雾信号:当企业的专利策略和本地专利保护制度影响跨国收购中的股权时

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Journal of International Management Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2023.101079

Christian Gnekpe , Alfredo Jimenez

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Understanding employer branding within MNC subsidiaries: Evidence from MNC hotel subsidiaries in Indonesia 了解跨国公司子公司的雇主品牌:来自印度尼西亚跨国酒店子公司的证据

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Journal of International Management Pub Date : 2023-11-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2023.101100

Arnold Japutra , Ringkar Situmorang , Marcello Mariani , Vijay Pereira

{"title":"Understanding employer branding within MNC subsidiaries: Evidence from MNC hotel subsidiaries in Indonesia","authors":"Arnold Japutra , Ringkar Situmorang , Marcello Mariani , Vijay Pereira","doi":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101100","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101100","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Employer branding is an important process in marketing to ensure the smooth delivery of branding strategies. Nevertheless, research focusing on the process of employer branding within international subsidiaries is scant. Thus, this research explores the process of developing employer branding for international subsidiaries to suit the multinational company (MNC) hotels' branding strategies. In particular, the current study examines the critical factors that could support and forestall employer branding within MNC hotel subsidiaries in Indonesia. Using a qualitative approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted with three different actors (i.e., expatriate manager, local manager, and regional executives). The results reveal that the company employer branding process is being influenced by several factors that exist only in the country of the MNC hotel subsidiaries. This study is important to explain the contextual factors of stakeholder preferences in the management of internal marketing within international MNC subsidiaries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47937,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1075425323000972/pdfft?md5=258ff071a5d2602bfc1a43e507b1b00d&pid=1-s2.0-S1075425323000972-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138517438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Vox populi, vox dei: A concept and measure for grassroots socio-political risk using Google Trends 大众之声，上帝之声:利用谷歌趋势对基层社会政治风险的概念和衡量

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Journal of International Management Pub Date : 2023-11-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2023.101096

Harald Puhr , Jakob Müllner

{"title":"Vox populi, vox dei: A concept and measure for grassroots socio-political risk using Google Trends","authors":"Harald Puhr , Jakob Müllner","doi":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101096","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101096","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, we propose a concept of grassroots socio-political risk (SPR) and provide a measure for it that is based on individual-level Google Trends data that captures issue salience. Our concept provides a bottom-up complement to established measures that focus more on political and institutional players and the institutional constraints they face. Our grassroots SPR index attempts to capture public pressure to initiate institutional change in a country. In contrast to existing measures, our Google Trends–based measure captures issue salience directly among individuals rather than media or analyst reports. As such, it is uniquely representative of socio-political sentiment, timely, and widely available. Our concept and measure offer international business (IB) researchers novel opportunities. In addition to developing the index, we scrutinize its validity and provide an illustrative empirical application in the IB context by showing that differences between internal and external assessments of grassroots SPR are contingent on psychic distance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47937,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1075425323000935/pdfft?md5=26721653de37dc8d0ce91abfb1bb99fc&pid=1-s2.0-S1075425323000935-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138504742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A configurational approach to political risks and institutional logics 政治风险和制度逻辑的配置方法

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Journal of International Management Pub Date : 2023-11-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2023.101088

Di Fan , Yiyi Su , Mike W. Peng

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