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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

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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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Modes of control in international digital commerce: evidence from Amazon.com 国际数字商务中的控制模式：来自亚马逊网站的证据

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2024-09-05 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-024-00731-5

Jiatao Li, Ziyi Chen, Ohchan Kwon, Jue Wang

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Doing good for political gain: the instrumental use of the SDGs as nonmarket strategies 为政治利益而行善：将可持续发展目标作为非市场战略的工具性运用

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2024-09-04 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-024-00723-5

Christiaan Röell, Felix Arndt, Mirko H. Benischke, Rebecca Piekkari

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Using the difference-in-differences design with panel data in international business research: progress, potential issues, and practical suggestions 在国际商业研究中使用面板数据差分设计：进展、潜在问题和实用建议

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2024-09-02 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-024-00725-3

Jiatao Li, Han Jiang, Jia Shen, Haoyuan Ding, Rongjian Yu

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On the resilience of ESG firms during the COVID-19 crisis: evidence across countries and asset classes COVID-19危机期间ESG公司的复原力：不同国家和资产类别的证据

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2024-08-29 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-024-00718-2

Gianfranco Gianfrate, Mirco Rubin, Dario Ruzzi, Mathijs van Dijk

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General manager succession dynamics in MNE foreign subsidiaries 跨国企业国外子公司总经理继任动态

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2024-08-28 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-024-00717-3

Liang (Arthur) Li, Paul W. Beamish, Andreas P. J. Schotter

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Foreign divestment: the missing piece in international business scholarship 国外撤资：国际商业学术研究中缺失的部分

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2024-08-23 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-024-00727-1

Shyamala Sethuram, Ajai Gaur

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Conceptualizing international new ventures as the nexus of entrepreneurship and international business 将国际新企业概念化为创业与国际商业的纽带

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-024-00724-4

Shaker A. Zahra, Giuseppe Criaco, Olga Petricevic, Niron Hashai

{"title":"Conceptualizing international new ventures as the nexus of entrepreneurship and international business","authors":"Shaker A. Zahra, Giuseppe Criaco, Olga Petricevic, Niron Hashai","doi":"10.1057/s41267-024-00724-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-024-00724-4","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a typology that captures the heterogeneity of international new ventures’ (INVs’) entrepreneurial behavior and their commitment to foreign markets. The typology identifies four types of INVs, highlighting the dynamic interplay between the degree of radicalness of their entrepreneurial behavior and the level of their foreign market commitment. By integrating theories from both international business and entrepreneurship, we illustrate how the diverse underlying capabilities and networks of different INV types provide strategic advantages. Moreover, we argue that changes in the degree of radicalness in INVs’ entrepreneurial behavior over time reveal important temporal dynamics with strategic and performance implications. Our typology addresses a limitation in international entrepreneurship research by emphasizing the INVs’ entrepreneurial essence, which has often been overlooked. Prior conceptualizations of INVs have primarily focused on aspects such as the degree and mode of internationalization, neglecting the diversity of their entrepreneurial approaches. Consequently, our understanding of the sources of INVs’ competitive advantage and resilience in international markets has been limited. Our typology offers an array of novel research questions that merit thorough empirical and theoretical explorations.","PeriodicalId":48453,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142042688","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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Worldwide spread of the Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement: cross-country diffusion of reputation loss in the film industry 温斯坦丑闻和 #MeToo 运动的全球传播：电影业声誉损失的跨国扩散

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2024-08-19 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-024-00720-8

Fiona Kun Yao, Mingrui Xu, Jiayue Ao

{"title":"Worldwide spread of the Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement: cross-country diffusion of reputation loss in the film industry","authors":"Fiona Kun Yao, Mingrui Xu, Jiayue Ao","doi":"10.1057/s41267-024-00720-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-024-00720-8","url":null,"abstract":"With a focus on the moral context of the cultural industry, we examine the worldwide spread of reputation loss associated with the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal in the film industry. Specifically, we explore how the scandal and the related #MeToo moral movement affect the box office of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in international markets. By leveraging an institutional approach, we predict that extensive traditional and digital media coverage of #MeToo in a host country will promote attention convergence, and robust formal and informal institutions of gender equality will drive moral convergence. Attention and moral convergence foster the cross-country spread of reputation loss following the scandal, potentially penalizing MNEs associated with The Weinstein Company and adversely affecting their international revenue. Conversely, differences in traditional and digital media coverage and misaligned formal and informal institutions hinder the spread of reputation loss. We support our predictions with weekly global box office revenue data for film MNEs from 2015 to 2019 across 86 countries and a difference-in-difference specification. Our study provides insights into research on cultural industries and international business, emphasizing the role of mass media and institutions in the worldwide moral movement. We also discuss the social impact of our study on gender equality.","PeriodicalId":48453,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142002646","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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