Marco Figueiredo , João J. Ferreira , Demetris Vrontis
{"title":"Perspectives on dynamic capabilities and ambidexterity in born-global companies: Theoretical framing, review and research agenda","authors":"Marco Figueiredo , João J. Ferreira , Demetris Vrontis","doi":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101099","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101099","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While research on born-global firms has been subject to broad review, little is known about their dynamic capabilities and the connection of these firms with ambidexterity. To fill this void, we critically examine the extant dynamic capabilities and ambidexterity in born-global firms research from 1996 to 2022. We systematically review 74 articles interconnected with the accumulated but fragmented knowledge on this theme and chart important shortcomings in the existing research. To focus future academic debate and discussion, we therefore propose an integrated conceptual framework that merges this dispersed body of literature, which comprises four core and interconnected themes – knowledge and internationalisation, entrepreneurial orientation, strategy and performance, web resources, and innovation, capabilities and ambidexterity. In doing so, we uncover the role played by dynamic capabilities and the importance of ambidexterity in the adoption, modification or reconfiguration of born-global firm resources. Our review also reveals future research paths hereby identified to support and guide academics and researchers seeking new fields of study and correspondingly demonstrates the need to deepen studies approaching the dynamic capabilities and ambidexterity in these companies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47937,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Management","volume":"30 1","pages":"Article 101099"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1075425323000960/pdfft?md5=306dabf22295a6aff6b7f0c3d219508e&pid=1-s2.0-S1075425323000960-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138687601","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}
Diana Owusu-Yirenkyi , Portia M. Akolgo , Gilbert Zana Naab , Francis Donbesuur , Albert Danso
{"title":"Charity can still begin at home: Examining the drivers and boundary conditions of Africa-to-Africa outward foreign direct investment (OFDI)","authors":"Diana Owusu-Yirenkyi , Portia M. Akolgo , Gilbert Zana Naab , Francis Donbesuur , Albert Danso","doi":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101108","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101108","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Recent studies on ‘Africa Rising’ and ‘Africa-to-Africa Internationalization’ have propelled conversations on how African Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) can continue to internationalize within African countries. From the tenets of the institutional theory and the dynamic capabilities perspectives, this study proposes and tests a framework of how and when dysfunctional competition drives SMEs' outward foreign direct investments within African countries. Analysis of a survey data from 196 Ghanaian SMEs operating across the African continent indicates that cross-border open innovation mediates the relationship between dysfunctional competition and SMEs' intra- Africa OFDI activities. Further analysis revealed that SMEs' strategic agility plays a double-edged sword moderating role in enhancing the effects of dysfunctional competitions and cross-border open innovation on intra-Africa OFDI. These findings have significant implications for the international business and finance literature as well as the management and growth of African SMEs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47937,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Management","volume":"30 1","pages":"Article 101108"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1075425323001059/pdfft?md5=ea4325b4797bbe259f6162c82760f995&pid=1-s2.0-S1075425323001059-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138580741","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}
{"title":"The intertwined role of social and financial remittances in new firms' creation","authors":"Giulia Bettin , Carla Massidda , Romano Piras","doi":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101110","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101110","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The paper investigates the role of financial and social remittances in promoting new business creation in migrants' home countries. By considering a panel of 143 countries during the period 2006–2018, we propose a way to operationalize the complex definition of social remittances and show that both financial and social remittances are positively correlated with the decision to create new firms, even though the effects of financial remittances crucially depend on the level of social remittances. This non-linear relationship points to the fact that countries with better institutions are likely to generate more intense flows of social remittances. However, they also allow for faster socio-economic integration of migrants and may weaken diasporas' interest and direct financial engagement in entrepreneurial projects in the country of origin. Results obtained on the entire sample are confirmed when looking at the two subsamples of developing and non-OECD countries, respectively.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47937,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Management","volume":"30 1","pages":"Article 101110"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1075425323001072/pdfft?md5=75d28910c7c7873aab71a8b701cae977&pid=1-s2.0-S1075425323001072-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138620332","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}
Aušrinė Šilenskytė , Jurgita Butkevičienė , Andrius Bartminas
{"title":"Blockchain-based connectivity within digital platforms and ecosystems in international business","authors":"Aušrinė Šilenskytė , Jurgita Butkevičienė , Andrius Bartminas","doi":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101109","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101109","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Digital globalization enabled by disruptive technologies has opened a myriad of ways to create value, warranting a cross-disciplinary research agenda on digital connectivity in international business (IB). Given the scarcity of understanding about the role of specific technologies enabling value creation through digital connectivity, we investigate how blockchain-based digital connectivity shapes value creation in international digital platforms and ecosystems (DPEs). Building on a comparative empirical analysis of international DPEs enabled by different types of blockchain technology, we develop a typology of blockchain-based connectivity in IB. The typology demonstrates how different blockchain technology types enable different kinds of connectivity, resulting in diverse approaches to value creation within newly emerging forms of DPEs. These findings contextualize the concept of digital connectivity, enabling more precise explanations of blockchain's adoption in DPEs, and expand the conceptualization of DPEs, with three new types emerging from the utilization of blockchain-based connectivity. Moreover, this interdisciplinary explanation reveals why certain features theoretically attributed to blockchain (e.g., decentralization, trust) do not always realize or support value creation in practice in IB based on the DPE business model.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47937,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Management","volume":"30 3","pages":"Article 101109"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1075425323001060/pdfft?md5=dd22ba59c33e25e5c8a86b1b241857eb&pid=1-s2.0-S1075425323001060-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138545385","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}
Linglin (Gloria) Zheng , Heidi M. Wechtler , Mariano L.M. Heyden , Ricarda B. Bouncken
{"title":"Global disasters and the luck of the draw? A serendipity perspective on MNE responses to global disasters","authors":"Linglin (Gloria) Zheng , Heidi M. Wechtler , Mariano L.M. Heyden , Ricarda B. Bouncken","doi":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101084","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101084","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Why do some MNEs manage to thrive amidst global disasters? Amidst the most tumultuous of unprecedented global disasters, some MNEs still seem to thrive. While the MNE-disaster response literature often considers responses as deliberately planned actions, some organizations can simply find themselves at the ‘right place at the right time’ during disasters. Yet not all that MNEs seem able to leverage favorable chance events hidden within a disaster context. Accordingly, in this study, we apply the emerging theoretical lens of serendipity to theorize MNE disaster response, illustrated by Chinese MNE's responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. While disasters are expected to be detrimental to MNEs, this unprecedented crisis has shown mixed effects. We collect 89 articles from <em>Caijing</em>—an authoritative business magazine in China and conducted a qualitative analysis of manager-oriented discourse to investigate how the MNE managers made sense of the impact of COVID-19 pandemic. We use the emerging serendipity perspective to recast and interpret reasons behind these mixed outcomes, drawing attention to why some MNE managers were able to ‘connect the dots’ and perceive value in the unexpected. Overall, we advance a timely introduction of serendipity to the MNE disaster response literature and build a preliminary bridge between theory, practice, and chance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47937,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Management","volume":"30 1","pages":"Article 101084"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1075425323000819/pdfft?md5=e0afa74b514dfad88d1d889b7bfc10e4&pid=1-s2.0-S1075425323000819-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138608179","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}
{"title":"Realizing subsidiary initiatives: A network mobilization view","authors":"Tina C. Ambos , Esther Tippmann , Phillip C. Nell","doi":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101080","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101080","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Subsidiaries draw on different networks to undertake entrepreneurial initiatives. While previous literature has emphasized the subsidiary's relational embeddedness as a key factor enabling initiatives, we know much less about the selective network mobilizations of different groups of actors. Our research takes a network mobilization view and uncovers the practices of network mobilization and avoidance across initiative phases. Ten in-depth case studies of realized initiatives reveal how subsidiaries activate multiple networks for different purposes, that networks are ‘fluid’ across different phases, and that initiatives follow different pathways for local and global impact. These insights extend the literature on subsidiary initiatives and shed light on subsidiary initiative processes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47937,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Management","volume":"29 6","pages":"Article 101080"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1075425323000777/pdfft?md5=2a3a2cddcfb9c74f6787119b1234d1f1&pid=1-s2.0-S1075425323000777-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135389658","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}
Matteo Rossi , Ghassan H. Mardini , Niki Kyriakidou , Giuseppe Festa
{"title":"The impact of corporate performance on innovation management: Empirical evidence from emerging Asian economies","authors":"Matteo Rossi , Ghassan H. Mardini , Niki Kyriakidou , Giuseppe Festa","doi":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101091","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101091","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Innovation is the key to survive, adapt, and succeed in modern markets, which are increasingly exposed to and impacted by the transformation in progress, especially from a technological point of view, and even more so as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the propensity to innovate is not only a desirable orientation of enterprises, but also a business process that absorbs relevant resources. In this vein, this study aims to understand if there is a connection, in the form of a direct and positive effect, between corporate performance and innovation, measured in terms of both expenses and intensity, with a specific focus on the Asian region (China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, and Thailand). While a direct relationship seems to exist when assessed by financial indicators (Tobin's Q), the same cannot be completely proved in relation to accounting ones (return on equity). Related implications, at the theoretical and practical level, are then provided, especially in regard to the potential contribution (and consequent appreciation) of intellectual capital.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47937,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Management","volume":"29 6","pages":"Article 101091"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135515913","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}
{"title":"International R&D and MNCs' innovation performance: An integrated approach","authors":"René Belderbos , Bart Leten , Shinya Suzuki","doi":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101083","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101083","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We propose an integrated framework establishing the environmental and organizational contingencies under which the international dispersion of R&D activities benefits innovation performance in multinational firms. We suggest that R&D dispersion is more likely to enhance innovation performance – the smaller economies of scale and scope in R&D, the greater the technological strength of R&D locations and the stronger intra-firm knowledge integration. Employing a panel dataset of 175 R&D intensive US, EU, and Japanese firms, our findings provide support for this framework and suggest that these contingencies need to be taken into account simultaneously. Technology diversification strengthens rather than weakens the relationship between international R&D and performance, which we attribute to the positive influence of recombining knowledge sourced across diverse locations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47937,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Management","volume":"29 6","pages":"Article 101083"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1075425323000807/pdfft?md5=365f444774ded3e2646a17f005e1f8a3&pid=1-s2.0-S1075425323000807-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135705881","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}
{"title":"Chinese State-Owned Multinationals' (SOMNEs) Subsidiary nonmarket strategies in Selective De-globalization: An integrated perspective of co-evolution theory and the yin-yang frame","authors":"Monica Ren , Hongzhi Gao","doi":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101069","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101069","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Subsidiaries adopt nonmarket strategies in host countries to merit legitimacy. This conceptual paper theorizes paradoxes and nonmarket strategies for Chinese SOMNEs' subsidiaries in selective de-globalization targeting China. We enrich the well-received co-evolutionary framework in the IB literature by incorporating the Yin-Yang frame into the analysis and broadening the scope of thinking beyond the economic analysis of risks and costs in political disruptions on MNE subsidiaries. Our integrated theoretical framework highlights two dynamic environments (social and geopolitical) that subsidiaries simultaneously confront and the multi-level institutional pressures within these environments. We propose three Yin-Yang framed nonmarket strategies — <em>zao-shi</em> (造势) (creating favorable momentum), <em>ying-shi</em> (应势) (Not resisting unfavorable momentum) and <em>wu-wei</em> (无为) (inactive action) to address the paradoxes in a de-globalized business environment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47937,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Management","volume":"29 6","pages":"Article 101069"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1075425323000662/pdfft?md5=5dd08cf8dd460ffd6a402c2082f6a961&pid=1-s2.0-S1075425323000662-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47295404","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}
Jennifer L. Gibbs , Julia Eisenberg , Dina Nekrassova
{"title":"Second-Class Citizens or Free Agents? Social Construction of Equity Perceptions of Contractors in Global Offshoring Arrangements","authors":"Jennifer L. Gibbs , Julia Eisenberg , Dina Nekrassova","doi":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101092","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intman.2023.101092","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines the ways in which perceptions of equity are socially constructed among contractors involved in global offshoring arrangements. A comparative case study of two global software organizations involved in offshore outsourcing reveals that global contractors across sites constructed different equity perceptions of similar foreign assignments due to a number of contextual factors. These contextual differences combined to produce social comparison processes that led to the construction of different equity perceptions. Drawing on a perceptual model of equity theory, we find that global contractors from one case felt stigmatized and treated inequitably as “second-class citizens”, while those from the other case felt empowered as “free agents.” Our findings contribute a context-sensitive explanation for the construction of different equity perceptions in global offshoring arrangements, with implications for global work design more broadly.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47937,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Management","volume":"29 6","pages":"Article 101092"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1075425323000893/pdfft?md5=4dfa176352345af77681c0abce59ebdc&pid=1-s2.0-S1075425323000893-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135664228","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}