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The impacts of structural configurations on expatriates’ organizational commitment and assignment completion intention 结构配置对外派人员的组织承诺和任务完成意愿的影响

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-26 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-023-00677-0

Riki Takeuchi, Jiatao Li, Hwayoung Kim, Jeffrey P. Shay

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Board reforms and M&A performance: international evidence 董事会改革与并购绩效：国际证据

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-16 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-023-00674-3

Muhammad Farooq Ahmad, Nihat Aktas, Douglas Cumming, Guosong Xu

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The changing faces of global cities and firms: a new perspective on firms’ location strategy 全球城市和企业不断变化的面貌：企业选址战略的新视角

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-13 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-023-00675-2

Kazuhiro Asakawa, Jeremy Clegg

{"title":"The changing faces of global cities and firms: a new perspective on firms’ location strategy","authors":"Kazuhiro Asakawa, Jeremy Clegg","doi":"10.1057/s41267-023-00675-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-023-00675-2","url":null,"abstract":"Recognizing the dearth of attention afforded to global cities in the international business and management journals, Goerzen et al. (J Int Bus Stud 44(5):427–450, 2013) chanced their hand at becoming pioneers. Their gamble paid off. Taking geographic scale down to the city level, questioning why multinationals choose to locate subsidiaries inside or outside of global cities, they jump-started their own conversation, sugaring the pill with the IB staple—liability of foreignness. So well was their inquiry crafted and executed that their insights into the way global connectedness attracts investment into these cities remains instructive. Since then, global cities and firms have undergone a transition. We visualize increasingly multifaceted cities interacting with firms accelerating towards adopting an “ecosystem approach”—characterized by extensive non-equity collaborations and partnerships. We explain why investigation à la Goerzen et al. (J Int Bus Stud 44(5):427–450, 2013) today must grasp multinationals’ diverse relationships to revivify theoretical insights from economic geography for a world of tensions heightened by geopolitics, but above all grappling with the sustainability agenda. We conclude that within an ecosystem of feedback effects, multinationals’ agency can be part of the solution. To deliver, IB must harness emerging novel geographic—“big”—data and techniques to match, in the spirit of the imaginative fusion a decade earlier.","PeriodicalId":48453,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139436912","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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Forgotten globalizing actors: towards an understanding of the range of individuals involved in global norm formation in multinational companies 被遗忘的全球化行动者：了解参与跨国公司全球规范制定的人员范围

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-11 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-023-00663-6

Tony Edwards, Kyoungmi Kim, Phil Almond, Philipp Kern, Olga Tregaskis, Linn Zhang

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Financial statement comparability and global supply chain relations 财务报表可比性与全球供应链关系

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-11 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-023-00673-4

Jie Peng, Boluo Liu, Jing Wu, Xiangang Xin

{"title":"Financial statement comparability and global supply chain relations","authors":"Jie Peng, Boluo Liu, Jing Wu, Xiangang Xin","doi":"10.1057/s41267-023-00673-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-023-00673-4","url":null,"abstract":"The crucial role and fragility of global supply chains highlight the need for deeper insights into the factors that can promote the establishment of global supply chain relations. We examine the impact of financial statement comparability on firms’ establishment of global supply chain relations. Using a large sample of supply chain relations from 49 non-U.S. economies over the period 2003–2020, we find that non-U.S. firms are more likely to establish and maintain more supply chain relations with U.S. firms when their financial statements are more comparable to industry peers in the U.S. To address endogeneity concerns, we show that our findings are robust to identification strategies exploring the exogenous changes in financial statement comparability associated with IFRS adoption or PCAOB international inspections. Moreover, we find that the effect of financial statement comparability on cross-border supply chain relations is more pronounced when the information barrier is higher between non-U.S. economies and the U.S. Overall, our study provides new insights into the impact of financial statement comparability on firms’ establishment of cross-border supply chain relations and sheds lights on the role of financial statement comparability in promoting international trade.","PeriodicalId":48453,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139431754","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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Correction: The link between foreign institutional owners and multinational enterprises’ environmental outcomes 更正：外国机构所有者与跨国企业环境成果之间的联系

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-24 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-023-00671-6

Pia Ellimäki, Ruth V. Aguilera, N. Hurtado‐Torres, J. Aragón-Correa

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Globalizing research on global cities and international business 全球城市和国际商业研究全球化

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-023-00670-7

C. Cindy Fan

{"title":"Globalizing research on global cities and international business","authors":"C. Cindy Fan","doi":"10.1057/s41267-023-00670-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-023-00670-7","url":null,"abstract":"Living up to the expectations of the JIBS Decade Award, Goerzen, Asmussen, and Nielsen’s 2013 paper not only introduced the literature on global cities to the international business (IB) community but continues to be generative. In their “Retrospective and a Looking Forward” paper 10 years later, the authors highlight megatrends about people, places and things, and new contexts and alternative perspectives, and they encourage further new ways of thinking about global cities and IB. This commentary expands upon their framework of three overlapping circles of global issues, global organizations, and global locations, by drawing especially from recent experiences in the U.S. and research in economic geography and allied fields. Facing global issues of climate change, human rights, health, housing, and the impacts of digital technologies on work, cities offer prospects of responding to these challenges, a context for multinational enterprises (MNEs) to consider. Against the backdrop of large-scale global migrations of unskilled, mostly contract, workers to global cities in developed economies, recruitment agencies and advocacy groups for migrants are global organizations as important as MNEs. Finally, the fluidity of physical boundaries, as illustrated by city-regions, world regions beyond traditional Western-centric perspectives, and intra-national variations, is key to analyzing global locations.","PeriodicalId":48453,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business Studies","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138887344","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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Global cities, the liability of foreignness, and theory on place and space in international business 全球城市、异国情调与国际商务中的地点和空间理论

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-023-00672-5

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The internationalization of state-owned enterprises in liberalized markets: the role of home-country pro-market reforms 自由化市场中的国有企业国际化：母国亲市场改革的作用

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-20 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-023-00668-1

G. Santangelo, P. Symeou

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The war on drugs: how multi-stakeholder partnerships contribute to sustainable development in the Golden Triangle region 禁毒战争：多方利益攸关方伙伴关系如何促进金三角地区的可持续发展

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Journal of International Business Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-13 DOI: 10.1057/s41267-023-00669-0

Hee-Chan Song

{"title":"The war on drugs: how multi-stakeholder partnerships contribute to sustainable development in the Golden Triangle region","authors":"Hee-Chan Song","doi":"10.1057/s41267-023-00669-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-023-00669-0","url":null,"abstract":"Studies on multi-stakeholder processes and cross-sector partnerships have demonstrated that multiple stakeholders across different sectors can resolve sustainable development issues when they combine their complementary resources and capacities. These studies have highlighted the role of multinational enterprises (MNEs), considering their requisite resources and capacities to implement intervention strategies. However, MNEs’ role remains largely underexplored in the context of non-state cultural regions where state governance is entirely lacking. Drawing on the findings of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Golden Triangle region near Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos borders, this study investigates how multiple stakeholders’ collective interventions transformed the illicit drug-based economy of the region into an alternative sustainable economy. The region once supplied 60% of the illicit drugs distributed worldwide, yet a series of cross-sector interventions transformed the region into a sustainable economy over the past 60 years. The findings show that the foreign subsidiaries of MNEs proactively explored the unknown region and shared knowledge with other actors, which helped participating stakeholders effectively address regional sustainable development issues. The resulting process model sheds light on MNEs’ central roles at various stages of the multi-stakeholder process, offering new insights into informal institutions and intercultural studies in the field of international business.","PeriodicalId":48453,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138582930","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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