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{"title":"When commitment isn’t enough: The cross-cultural interactive effects of commitment-inducement and compliance-enforcement on performance","authors":"Sean A. Way ,&nbsp;Michael D. Ulrich ,&nbsp;Patrick M. Wright","doi":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102250","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102250","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The current study contributes to the ongoing discourse in the extant literature concerning the performance effects of the commitment-inducement and the compliance-enforcement approaches to the management of people and work. We expand on two research studies conducted in China to assess if the finding that commitment-inducement and compliance-enforcement result in higher organization financial and operational performance generalizes to corporate social responsibility performance and to countries and cultures across the globe. Using the current study’s large global multi-source sample, our findings illuminate that compliance-enforcement explained significant incremental variance in both organization financial and operational performance and organization corporate social responsibility performance beyond that of the commitment-inducement approach alone. Moreover, the highest levels of both performance outcomes were obtained by organizations that simultaneously used both commitment-inducement and compliance-enforcement; that is, hybrid governance. Compliance-enforcement was also found to have a more substantive relative effect on organization financial and operational performance while commitment-inducement was found to have a more substantive relative effect on organization corporate social responsibility performance. Furthermore, as hypothesized, at the between country-level, the relationship between the commitment-inducement approach of managing people and work and corporate social responsibility performance was found to be more negative both for a high individualism than a low individualism culture and for a high uncertainty avoidance than a low uncertainty avoidance culture, respectively. Whereas, the relationship between the compliance-enforcement approach and corporate social responsibility performance was found to be more positive for a high uncertainty avoidance than a low uncertainty avoidance culture. Finally, as hypothesized, at the between country-level, commitment-inducement and compliance-enforcement were found to be substitutes and have a negative synergistic effect on corporate social responsibility performance. Implications, limitations, and avenues for future research are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51352,"journal":{"name":"International Business Review","volume":"33 2","pages":"Article 102250"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969593123001506/pdfft?md5=b7e2c0545ff02f734dca43e58593a4ca&pid=1-s2.0-S0969593123001506-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139190506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing the effects of institutions on the ownership structure of MNCs investments in global cities","authors":"Fernando Moreira da Silva ,&nbsp;Renato Pereira ,&nbsp;Mario Henrique Ogasavara","doi":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102232","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102232","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study analyzes the relationship between institutions and ownership in cross-border acquisitions. First, this research contributes to the existing literature by considering the relative position of cities of origin and destination in this relationship and examining the asymmetric effects of institutional distance. Furthermore, we contribute by taking the concept of global cities and analyzing the influence of these locations on ownership decisions in cross-border acquisitions. Using a database with multiple home and host-cities and adopting a binary logistic analysis, the results indicate that MNCs hold a higher stake in the equity of an acquiree located in a developed country, and their commitment of resources to acquisitions in global cities is higher than it is in other cities. These findings suggest that analyzing distance direction is essential, and brings new insights when examined at the subnational level.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51352,"journal":{"name":"International Business Review","volume":"33 2","pages":"Article 102232"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969593123001324/pdfft?md5=d1f2e0734ed744b632a4608b7a8ae1bf&pid=1-s2.0-S0969593123001324-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138823876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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 application of HRM systems to enhance the innovation activities of foreign SMEs","authors":"Jane Menzies ,&nbsp;Connie Zheng ,&nbsp;Anthony McDonnell","doi":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102249","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102249","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Human resource management (HRM) systems can substantially influence an organization’s innovation and internationalization activities. This paper investigates the application of different HRM systems amongst foreign-owned, internationally-operating small to medium enterprises (SMEs) and how they relate to different innovation activities. We draw on qualitative data from 33 Australian SMEs doing business in China. Our findings illustrate that most SMEs utilize commitment-based HRM practices, closely aligned with SMEs’ product, process, organization, service, and marketing innovations. Some SMEs used collaboration-based HRM practices which tended to be more aligned with organizational and process innovation activities. Some SMEs also exhibited a combination of commitment- and collaboration-based HRM systems focused on developing an internal workforce with innate capability, creativity, and commitment, while building external relationships, collaborative networks and strategic partnerships. We argue that the configuration of HRM systems appears important in supporting foreign SMEs to enhance innovative activities which are important for survival in complex contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51352,"journal":{"name":"International Business Review","volume":"34 1","pages":"Article 102249"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139023587","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":"Seeking new location advantages: Analysis of emerging digital cross-border M&As—Based on TIMG index","authors":"Zhe Wang ,&nbsp;Dianchun Jiang ,&nbsp;Ming Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102243","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102243","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines the location change of emerging digital cross-border mergers and acquisitions (DCBMAs). Based on a country-pair-year sample in 2013–2019 and newly constructed TIMG index, we find evidence that a country’s development level of digital economy has become new location advantage to attract DCBMAs. The possibility and scale of DCBMAs will increase in countries with developed digital infrastructure, digital market, and digital technology. We extend a new distance dimension and find that digital distance may impede DCBMAs between two countries. Further evidence suggests that the relationship of digital location advantages with DCBMAs is also affected by the differences in the income level of acquiring country, the attribute of investors and the characteristics of the digital industry.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51352,"journal":{"name":"International Business Review","volume":"33 2","pages":"Article 102243"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138683673","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":"Adaptive governance and resilience of global value chains: A framework for sustaining the performance of developing-country suppliers during exogenous shocks","authors":"Mohammad Tarikul Islam ,&nbsp;Doren Chadee","doi":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102248","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102248","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We draw from the composition-based view of firms to develop and test a framework of the influence of adaptive governance and resilience on the performance of a sample (n = 292) of Bangladeshi suppliers embedded in apparel global value chains (GVCs) at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results confirm that adaptive governance provides the necessary conditions for suppliers to strengthen their resilience and sustain their performance during exogenous shocks. Results also show that suppliers disruption orientation and resource reconfiguration capabilities play important contingency roles on the extent to which resilience transforms adaptive governance into performance. The implications of our findings and directions for future research on GVC governance and performance in the context of exogenous shocks are fully discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51352,"journal":{"name":"International Business Review","volume":"33 2","pages":"Article 102248"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138991923","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":"A potential paradigm shift in global mobility? The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Rodrigo Mello ,&nbsp;Amaya Erro-Garcés ,&nbsp;Michael Dickmann ,&nbsp;Chris Brewster","doi":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102245","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102245","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly affected the global mobility (GM) policies of multinational enterprises (MNEs). Through interviews with policy decision-makers in 32 companies, we applied Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis to examine how the pandemic accelerated changes in MNE policies and the management of GM. Our framework builds on contingency theory, traditionally concerned with aligning organizational policies with macro- and meso-level contextual factors. We extend this by integrating micro-level individual variables, such as career aspirations and well-being, as contingent factors influencing GM practices. There is variation in GM responses in relation to the volume of GM activities, GM-related policies, investments in digitalization and technology, and variations in mobility types. We observed a potential paradigm shift that affords employees greater agency in their global mobility paths, thereby greater granularity to contingency theory. This nuanced approach opens new research avenues and equips organizational leaders with a comprehensive set of variables for GM decision-making. Our findings indicate lasting global mobility changes but foresee gradual implementation due to associated risks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51352,"journal":{"name":"International Business Review","volume":"34 1","pages":"Article 102245"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138563498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cultural identity threats and identity work of skilled migrants in multinational corporations","authors":"Jinju Xie,&nbsp;Vesa Peltokorpi","doi":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102246","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102246","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While skilled migrants (SMs) are increasingly valuable human resources in organizations, little is known about their cultural identity threats and work in multinational corporations (MNCs). This study draws on the identity work perspective and interviews with 163 SMs to examine how and why SMs use identity work to cope with encountered cultural identity threats and what types of SMs’ identity work can be identified in MNCs. Our analysis shows that SMs respond to identity threats in the forms of cultural tightness, value conflict, and stigmatization by protective identity work (i.e., differentiating, detaching, distancing, and rejecting) or adaptive identity work (i.e., shifting, revising, extending, and suppressing).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51352,"journal":{"name":"International Business Review","volume":"33 2","pages":"Article 102246"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138509979","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":"Diverse human resource slack and firm innovation: Evidence from politically connected firms","authors":"Tao Chen ,&nbsp;Hyeyoun Park ,&nbsp;Tazeeb Rajwani","doi":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102244","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102244","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study explores how political connections help firms promote innovation in emerging markets by facilitating the acquisition of required resources and knowledge and establishing collaborative relationships with external partners. Further, we emphasize that reconfiguration and acquisition of resources and knowledge are critical for firms to seize the opportunities by focusing on the role of human resource (HR) slack and state ownership in the innovation process. By specifying the HR slack based on the accumulated knowledge and experience of employees, we explain that the way firms integrate the resources and knowledge from political connections with an appropriate type of HR slack critically affects firm innovation. We also argue that state ownership strengthens the capabilities of politically connected firms to acquire resources and knowledge for firm innovation because political connections and state ownership enable firms to establish a dual pathway to access resources and knowledge. Based on data from 3229 Chinese listed firms over a decade, our findings show the importance of highly-skilled HR slack to adequately allocate and absorb the resources and knowledge from political connections to foster firm innovation. The results also highlight the significance of state ownership in promoting innovation within politically connected firms.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51352,"journal":{"name":"International Business Review","volume":"33 2","pages":"Article 102244"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969593123001440/pdfft?md5=221701710531ef3f8296e279cde39517&pid=1-s2.0-S0969593123001440-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138618701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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 impact of experience on the agglomeration of cross-border investments within a region: The case of private equity in emerging markets","authors":"Santiago Mingo ,&nbsp;Luciano Ciravegna ,&nbsp;Francisco Morales","doi":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102231","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102231","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Previous research on cross-border investments has shown the importance of choosing the right focal market—a target country in which a firm invests. International business scholars have also noted that cross-border investments frequently concentrate in regions. However, the factors affecting investment agglomeration within a region have yet to be determined. Building on theoretical insights from the Uppsala internationalization model, we propose two effects that can significantly impact investment agglomeration within a region: (1) the <em>focal effect</em>, linked to cumulative investment experience in a focal market, and (2) the <em>neighborhood effect</em>, related to cumulative investment experience in the region where a focal market is located. We also examine how the size of these effects is moderated by cross-national distance. To test our theoretical arguments, we use a dataset of private equity firms that made investments in three emerging market regions—Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe—from 1996 to 2011. The results support all our hypotheses. We contribute to the literature on regional internationalization by providing new insights that complement the Uppsala internationalization model.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51352,"journal":{"name":"International Business Review","volume":"33 2","pages":"Article 102231"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138510052","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":"Liability of political embeddedness in Chinese multinationals: Implications for headquarters’ roles and reverse knowledge transfer","authors":"Cong Su ,&nbsp;Ulf Holm ,&nbsp;Oscar Martín Martín","doi":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102230","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102230","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>It is well known that Chinese multinationals’ international expansion is often supported by the home-country government. This study argues that the political embeddedness of Chinese multinationals’ headquarters may impair their managerial intentions and abilities to carry out their entrepreneurial and administrative roles and, indirectly, their capacity to achieve reverse knowledge transfers from their foreign subsidiaries. Based on a study of 177 subsidiaries of 99 Chinese multinationals, we find no support for the argument that political embeddedness affects headquarters’ centralization of subsidiary decisions, although such centralization is negatively associated with reverse knowledge transfer. Additionally, our findings show that home-country political embeddedness is negatively associated with headquarters’ entrepreneurial role vis-à-vis individual subsidiaries. This hampers subsidiaries’ reverse knowledge transfers. The results contribute to understanding the value of political embeddedness and headquarters’ roles in the context of Chinese multinationals. They also provide insights into the strategic asset-seeking internationalization of Chinese multinationals. By developing and operationalizing the multidimensional concept of political embeddedness, this study further contributes to the research on firm-government relations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51352,"journal":{"name":"International Business Review","volume":"33 3","pages":"Article 102230"},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969593123001300/pdfft?md5=d02f161e963f313e9f61a526edcea04e&pid=1-s2.0-S0969593123001300-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139302530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}