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User language and cultural product innovation: insights from the global mobile gaming industry 用户语言与文化产品创新：全球移动游戏产业的启示

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-29 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-024-00752-0

Pengxiang Zhang, Jingtao Yi, Chao Niu, Eric Yanfei Zhao, Sali Li

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The boundaries of the law: can US private enforcement discipline foreign firms? 法律的边界：美国私人执法部门能否约束外国公司？

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-25 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-024-00746-y

Massimo Massa, Xiaoqiao Wang, Bohui Zhang, Hong Zhang

{"title":"The boundaries of the law: can US private enforcement discipline foreign firms?","authors":"Massimo Massa, Xiaoqiao Wang, Bohui Zhang, Hong Zhang","doi":"10.1057/s41267-024-00746-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-024-00746-y","url":null,"abstract":"Existing studies tend to focus on how a legal system reinforces the efficiency of its domestic firms or foreign companies that are subject to its domestic jurisdiction (e.g., via cross-listing). Our study provides critical normative implications in the era of financial globalization by showing that the influence of a country’s legal institutions extend beyond its territorial boundaries. We examine whether US shareholder-initiated class action lawsuits can discipline non-US firms. Using an international sample of firms over the period 1994–2019, we find that a US class action lawsuit against a non-US firm cross-listed in the US negatively affects the value of its non-US-listed industry peers. The effect is robust in both event-based analyses for short-term market reaction and stacked difference-in-difference analyses for long-term valuation. We uncover two economic mechanisms underlying this effect: information sharing and policy coordination between the US and the non-US firm’s home country. Specifically, the cross-border disciplining effect is more pronounced for firms from countries that lack information and that coordinate with the US at the policy level. Moreover, non-US peer firms subsequently improve their governance practices and financial policies to restore shareholder value. Our findings suggest that private enforcement in the US has a worldwide influence.","PeriodicalId":48453,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142490841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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International business research that moves Africa 移动非洲的国际商业研究

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-24 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-024-00749-9

Baniyelme D. Zoogah

{"title":"International business research that moves Africa","authors":"Baniyelme D. Zoogah","doi":"10.1057/s41267-024-00749-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-024-00749-9","url":null,"abstract":"The Nachum et al. (J Int Bus Stud 54(5):938–955, 2023) Point article and the Kamoche and Wood (J Int Bus Stud 54(5):956–967, 2023) Counterpoint article each use interesting theory to argue that people-centric mechanisms and indigenous theories of Africa, respectively, offer opportunities for international business (IB) research. Although interesting theory is centered on academic impact, there are other impacts—societal, practical, policy, and educational—that matter to IB scholars of Africa. Focusing on those impacts, and using moving theory, I integrate positivity, history, and impact “turns” into a functional framework that shows how IB scholars interested in Africa can conduct research that addresses the immediate pressing requirements of being—inclusive development, capabilities, and maintenance—that matter to African societies, organizations, and individuals. The expansive framework draws in scholars of the cognate fields of IB to conduct research that prompts change and recognition, is restorative and reformative, and realigns and remodels the practices, knowledge systems, and behaviors of individuals, organizations, and societies. These functions are essential for creating impacts that appeal to leaders, practitioners, policymakers, and educators. As such, the framework aligns with the strategic aim of JIBS to foster research that helps build a better world.","PeriodicalId":48453,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142490850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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 interrelationships between corporate political activity and corporate environmental performance: the role of language diversity 企业政治活动与企业环境绩效之间的相互关系：语言多样性的作用

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-15 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-024-00728-0

Amir Shoham, Jedrzej George Frynas, Ahmad Arslan, Ofra Bazel-Shoham, Sang Mook Lee, Zaheer Khan, Shlomo Tarba

{"title":"The interrelationships between corporate political activity and corporate environmental performance: the role of language diversity","authors":"Amir Shoham, Jedrzej George Frynas, Ahmad Arslan, Ofra Bazel-Shoham, Sang Mook Lee, Zaheer Khan, Shlomo Tarba","doi":"10.1057/s41267-024-00728-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-024-00728-0","url":null,"abstract":"Language affects almost every aspect of management in multinational enterprises (MNEs) but little is known about the impact of language on environmental performance. Our study investigates how language diversity affects the environmental performance of MNEs worldwide. We show that the grammatical structure of a language – specifically the first pronoun drop – is an important factor explaining the environmental performance of firms. Our analysis of 4454 company-year observations suggests that MNEs operating in societies that permit the first pronoun drop tend to have better environmental performance. Furthermore, we explore the impact of linguistic structure on the relationship between environmental performance and corporate political activity (CPA). We find that using the first pronoun drop of the local language moderates the influence of CPA on firms’ environmental performance. Our study concludes that international managers must pay greater attention to the neglected role of language in implementing environmental initiatives.","PeriodicalId":48453,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142440370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Exit, pursued by a bear! Global shocks and MNE responses 被熊追赶的出口！全球冲击与跨国企业的应对措施

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-15 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-024-00741-3

Lorraine Eden

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Restrictive immigration policies and MNE innovation 限制性移民政策与跨国企业创新

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-09 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-024-00737-z

Deepak Nayak, Solon Moreira, Ram Mudambi

{"title":"Restrictive immigration policies and MNE innovation","authors":"Deepak Nayak, Solon Moreira, Ram Mudambi","doi":"10.1057/s41267-024-00737-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-024-00737-z","url":null,"abstract":"High-skill migrant workers significantly contribute to advanced economies by directly generating knowledge-intensive assets and serving as bridges to knowledge in their origin countries. However, rising populist sentiment has led to increased immigration restrictions in wealthy economies like the U.S. and the Europe Union. This study examines the impact of the 2004 H-1B visa cap reduction on U.S.-based multinational enterprises (MNEs). We use a sample of 371,856 patents assigned to 707 U.S.-based MNEs. We find that post-shock, MNEs increased the geographic dispersion of their global R&D workforce, rather than replacing foreigners with local American workers. Despite this, the firms experienced a decline in innovation performance, likely due to elevated coordination challenges. Interestingly, sectors relying more on codified knowledge demonstrated increased R&D team dispersion with less impact on innovation. This suggests that the geographic proximity of innovation teams is crucial for tacit knowledge-intensive sectors. These findings highlight the complex consequences of immigration restrictions and suggest boundary conditions on the effectiveness of work-from-anywhere models in knowledge-intensive industries.","PeriodicalId":48453,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142397778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Alternative finance in the international business context: a review and future research 国际商业背景下的另类融资：回顾与未来研究

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-02 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-024-00739-x

Franklin Allen, Meijun Qian

{"title":"Alternative finance in the international business context: a review and future research","authors":"Franklin Allen, Meijun Qian","doi":"10.1057/s41267-024-00739-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-024-00739-x","url":null,"abstract":"Firms increasingly rely on alternative finance (AF) in addition to banks and equity markets, and its usage across countries differs significantly. We conceptualize AF as financing that operates within social, business, and virtual networks that generate informational, collateral, and incentive advantages compared to finance relying on traditional financial intermediaries. Examples of AF include family loans, microfinance, trade credit, community credit cooperatives, person-to-person (P2P), and crowdfunding. While AF is not a new phenomenon, technological development continues to facilitate its increasing prominence. We review the evolution of AF theories, summarize key empirical findings, and describe how AF intersects with international business (IB) research. Specifically, we review how AF feeds into the analysis of comparative financial systems, financial development, comparative corporate governance, and national culture. We conclude that AF has shaped comparative research in IB in important ways, but cross-border research in IB has hardly considered the role of AF. Globalization and technological development and adoption in the financial industry generate rich fields where AF and IB intersect; these have yet to be understood. We describe how IB research, specifically addressing the cross-border dimension, could benefit from integrating insights from AF research, and propose approaches to integrate theories on AF, IB, and internationalization.","PeriodicalId":48453,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142385061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Product market bonding and cross-listings: evidence from global competition law reforms 产品市场结合与交叉上市：来自全球竞争法改革的证据

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-02 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-024-00740-4

Albert Tsang, Kun Tracy Wang, Nathan Zhenghang Zhu

{"title":"Product market bonding and cross-listings: evidence from global competition law reforms","authors":"Albert Tsang, Kun Tracy Wang, Nathan Zhenghang Zhu","doi":"10.1057/s41267-024-00740-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-024-00740-4","url":null,"abstract":"We propose and empirically test a product market motive for cross-listing, positing that intensified competition in domestic markets incentivizes firms to cross-list their securities as a strategic response to mitigate the adverse impact of heightened competition at home. Utilizing a hand-collected comprehensive cross-listing dataset covering 56 home countries and 45 cross-listing host countries, along with a novel measure of competition law reforms that intensify product market competition in firms’ home countries, our study provides robust evidence supporting this hypothesis. We find that firms are more likely to cross-list their securities following the implementation of competition law reforms in their home countries. Additional analyses suggest that cross-listing facilitates firms in gaining a deeper understanding of foreign product markets, signaling their commitment to delivering superior products, and enhancing product/brand awareness in foreign countries. Importantly, we demonstrate that cross-listing positively influences foreign sales, underscoring its efficacy as a strategic tool for bolstering a firm’s presence in foreign product markets amid heightened domestic competition. Overall, our study identifies a strategic product market motive for cross-listing and offers actionable insights for firms to enhance market positioning in an increasingly competitive global marketplace.","PeriodicalId":48453,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142385063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Foreign-origin managers and FDI location choice 外国管理人员和外国直接投资地点选择

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2024-09-17 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-024-00726-2

Massimiliano Coda Zabetta, Ernest Miguelez, Francesco Lissoni, Sarah Hegarty

{"title":"Foreign-origin managers and FDI location choice","authors":"Massimiliano Coda Zabetta, Ernest Miguelez, Francesco Lissoni, Sarah Hegarty","doi":"10.1057/s41267-024-00726-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-024-00726-2","url":null,"abstract":"Building upon the upper echelons theory of organizations as applied to internationalization strategies, we investigate the impact of foreign-origin top management team (TMT) members on their companies’ location choice. We propose that a manager-from-target effect may exist, by which a manager’s knowledge of their country of origin increases the likelihood of choosing that country as a target. We expect it to be stronger for acquisitions than for greenfield investments, the inputs of foreign-origin managers being more relevant in the first case. Based on a large sample of foreign direct investment from 2013 to 2019, and using name analysis to identify TMT members’ origins, we find that the effect is present in both establishment modes but larger and more robust for acquisitions. It is also larger in companies with less diverse TMTs, for which targeting one manager’s country of origin instead of others’ may be less likely to cause conflict. Future research should explore whether investments in locations suggested by managers from the target country outperform others. If this is the case, it implies that recruiting foreign-origin top managers can improve a company’s internationalization strategy via better location choices.","PeriodicalId":48453,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142236784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Industrial policy, green challenges, and international business 产业政策、绿色挑战和国际商业

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2024-09-17 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-024-00722-6

Gabriel R. G. Benito, Klaus E. Meyer

{"title":"Industrial policy, green challenges, and international business","authors":"Gabriel R. G. Benito, Klaus E. Meyer","doi":"10.1057/s41267-024-00722-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-024-00722-6","url":null,"abstract":"Nation-states are designing their industrial policies increasingly to not only enhance national competitiveness, but also to simultaneously address “Green Challenges”, concerns about the natural environment that require concerted action among different actors in society, including domestic and foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs). This blending of global and national policy objectives is leading to a new wave of industrial policies in advanced economies that are informed by scholarly discourses in evolutionary economics, innovation systems, and 'wicked problems'. We discuss the implications of these sustainability-oriented industrial policies for MNEs. They operate in increasingly diverse local ecosystems shaped by local actors and local policies as we illustrate for two such ecosystems in Nordic countries: circular economy and energy transition. Many MNEs face a tension between capabilities they could use to help nations achieve their sustainability goals and incentives to protect existing rents and business models. They may thus engage pro-actively or reactively in both market and nonmarket realms in each country in which they operate. We discuss the interactions between MNEs, governments, and other actors in host countries pursuing both sustainability and competitiveness objectives, and outline how ensuing tensions create new challenges and opportunities for international business scholarship.","PeriodicalId":48453,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142236782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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