{"title":"A multilateral network perspective on inward FDI","authors":"Soni Jha, Snehal Awate, Ram Mudambi","doi":"10.1057/s41267-023-00650-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-023-00650-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Foreign direct investment (FDI) remains a preferred mode for multinational enterprises to access international markets, resources, and technology. However, there are vigorous debates in the academic literature about the magnitude of inward FDI spillovers and their effect on the economic growth of host countries. In this paper, we argue that these empirical inconsistencies arise from the narrow “home-host” bilateral context in which inward FDI spillovers are analyzed. Further, we show that the inconsistencies can be resolved by adopting a broader, multilateral network perspective to estimate the effects of inward FDI. This perspective allows us to account for the differences in inward FDI spillovers from different investing countries and aggregate these to assess the overall impact of inward FDI. We use quantitative network-centric analysis to model the multilateral connectivity amongst nations engendered by inward FDI. Specifically, we use a panel data set of over 200 host countries spanning two decades to demonstrate that (a) the <i>diversity</i> of inward FDI measured by the number of investing countries and (b) the <i>quality</i> of inward FDI measured by the structural position of investing countries in the global inward FDI network is correlated with higher economic growth of host countries.</p>","PeriodicalId":48453,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.6,"publicationDate":"2023-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50166989","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}
Rosalie L. Tung, Gary Knight, Pervez Ghauri, Shameen Prashantham, Tony Fang
{"title":"Disruptive knowledge in international business research: A pipe dream or attainable target?","authors":"Rosalie L. Tung, Gary Knight, Pervez Ghauri, Shameen Prashantham, Tony Fang","doi":"10.1057/s41267-023-00656-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-023-00656-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48453,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135511655","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}
{"title":"The Big Con: how the consulting industry weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments and warps our economies","authors":"Mehdi Boussebaa","doi":"10.1057/s41267-023-00653-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-023-00653-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48453,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136352779","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}
Brian R. Chabowski, Peter Gabrielsson, G. Tomas M. Hult, Forrest V. Morgeson
{"title":"Sustainable international business model innovations for a globalizing circular economy: a review and synthesis, integrative framework, and opportunities for future research","authors":"Brian R. Chabowski, Peter Gabrielsson, G. Tomas M. Hult, Forrest V. Morgeson","doi":"10.1057/s41267-023-00652-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-023-00652-9","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The global imperative has increased in recent years for international firms to respond to major threats such as unintended environmental, social, and economic problems arising from ecological destruction, population growth, and economic activity. To respond to this confluence that has created an emerging existential crisis, we identify that a globalizing circular economy (CE) is required and subsequently define a new construct: sustainable international business model innovations. In doing so, we introduce circular inputs, sharing platforms, product as a service, product use extension, and resource recovery as business models that contain the potential to reply to these grand challenges. Based on CE principles, the innovations and designs introduced are contrasted with the traditional linear economic model and are presented as actionable standardization/adaptation alternatives for companies responding to differing informal and formal international institutions. Based on the theoretical underpinnings of the resource-based, dynamic capabilities, and international business model innovation perspectives, we introduce an integrative framework that is accompanied by a series of detailed research questions to provide future research opportunities for the domain. This conceptual approach holds that international resource design influences marketing capabilities adaptation which, in turn, impacts international performance and offers a foundation from which to build the literature.","PeriodicalId":48453,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136353555","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}
{"title":"Integrating host-country political heterogeneity into MNE–state bargaining: insights from international political economy","authors":"Sumon Kumar Bhaumik, Saul Estrin, Rajneesh Narula","doi":"10.1057/s41267-023-00651-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-023-00651-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The international business (IB) literature has emphasised the heterogeneity of firm strategies in shaping MNE–state bargaining, but largely ignored the heterogeneity of states. In contrast, the international political economy (IPE) literature provides a more nuanced consideration of state strategies and their economic and political priorities. We seek to address this oversight by making two related contributions. In the context of MNE–state bargaining, we first discuss how differences in political systems and the political and economic objectives of states may affect their negotiating stance with MNEs. We consider the impact of changes in the balance of state objectives by considering how much importance governments assign to improving the welfare of its broader population, relative to how important they are concerned with the “private benefits” that accrue to the political elites. This enables us to add micro-foundations to the characterisation of the state. Second, we apply a Nash bargaining framework to MNE–state negotiations that vividly captures the relative bargaining powers of the MNE and the state, including how “outside options” available to these two actors can influence the shape of actual bargains. We discuss the implications of these two contributions for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":48453,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.6,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50167003","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}
Tengjian Zou, Gokhan Ertug, Ilya R. P. Cuypers, Donald L. Ferrin
{"title":"Trust across borders: a review of the research on interorganizational trust in international business","authors":"Tengjian Zou, Gokhan Ertug, Ilya R. P. Cuypers, Donald L. Ferrin","doi":"10.1057/s41267-023-00648-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-023-00648-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Trust between organizations has been recognized as crucial in international business (IB) and has attracted extensive research attention. Researchers have conceptualized and measured interorganizational trust in multiple ways, investigated numerous determinants and outcomes of interorganizational trust, and explored interorganizational trust in several types of international relationships across a range of country combinations using varied research methodologies. Our review aims to consolidate and advance this literature by focusing on (i) how interorganizational trust has been conceptualized in IB; (ii) how interorganizational trust has been operationalized in IB; (iii) what factors promote or hinder interorganizational trust in IB; (iv) what the outcomes are of interorganizational trust in IB; and (v) how interorganizational trust has been studied in IB. For each question, we analyze the literature and then provide recommendations and directions for future research. We aim to provide a solid grounding for future research that will keep this area theoretically sound, empirically robust, and phenomenologically relevant.</p>","PeriodicalId":48453,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50167022","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}
{"title":"Cross-sector collaborations in global supply chains as an opportunity structure: How NGOs promote corporate sustainability in China","authors":"Wenjie Liu, P. Heugens","doi":"10.1057/s41267-023-00644-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-023-00644-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48453,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46704343","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}
Shumi M. Akhtar, Farida Akhtar, M. Jahromi, Kose John
{"title":"Volatility linkages and value gains from diversifying with Islamic assets","authors":"Shumi M. Akhtar, Farida Akhtar, M. Jahromi, Kose John","doi":"10.1057/s41267-023-00641-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-023-00641-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48453,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44909739","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}
Zhaleh Najafi-Tavani, Eleni Zantidou, Constantinos N. Leonidou, A. Zeriti
{"title":"Business model innovation and export performance","authors":"Zhaleh Najafi-Tavani, Eleni Zantidou, Constantinos N. Leonidou, A. Zeriti","doi":"10.1057/s41267-023-00645-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-023-00645-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48453,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46188093","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}
{"title":"Multinational firms and the quest for global talent: Employing (skilled) foreign workers at home and abroad","authors":"R. Belderbos, B. Leten, N. Nguyen, M. Vancauteren","doi":"10.1057/s41267-023-00643-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-023-00643-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48453,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47534511","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}