Abrar Ali Saiyed , Marleen Wierenga , Stephanie A. Fernhaber , Niina Nummela
{"title":"From grassroots to international markets: A qualitative study of marginalized entrepreneurs in India","authors":"Abrar Ali Saiyed , Marleen Wierenga , Stephanie A. Fernhaber , Niina Nummela","doi":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102163","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102163","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Much of the growing literature on international entrepreneurship focuses on how positive circumstances, such as having prior international experience, business networks, or formal institutions lead to international entrepreneurial action and overlooks the role more challenging circumstances might play. In this study, we extend and refine challenge-based entrepreneurship theory to explore what influences international entrepreneurial action undertaken by marginalized entrepreneurs in an emerging economy. Despite widening economic and social disparities in emerging economies, little is known about entrepreneurs who have traditionally been “left behind.” Our findings suggest that these marginalized entrepreneurs have not only a set of liabilities but also advantages, including creative problem solving and perseverance, as well as local knowledge and networks. To spur the first-person international opportunity belief associated with international entrepreneurial action, an intermediary with resources and networks is needed to offset the liabilities. These intermediaries act as gatekeepers, helping some marginalized entrepreneurs but holding back others.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51352,"journal":{"name":"International Business Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48493237","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":"Efficiency of multinational banks: Impacts of geographic and product loci","authors":"Canan Yildirim , Adnan Kasman , Mohamed Azzim Gulamhussen","doi":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102162","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102162","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper explores geographic diversification strategies’ impact on multinational banks’ operational performance within the context of research on globalization and regionalization. We employ a sample of the 49 largest banks from 16 European countries from 2011 to 2018 and proxy operational performance by technical efficiency. We find the impact of geographic diversification on operational performance depends on the locus of geographic diversification—home-regional vs. inter-regional—and the interplay between geographic diversification and banks’ functional focus. More specifically, home-regional diversification together with a concentration on non-interest income-generating activities, including fee and commission and trading income, worsens performance, and diversification across regions alongside a focus on non-interest income-generating activities improves performance. Distinct product characteristics’ ability to facilitate different regional dispersions has important managerial implications for enhancing the success of geographic diversification strategies, a central but unresolved issue in global banking.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51352,"journal":{"name":"International Business Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48910194","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 enterprises’ nonmarket strategies: Insights from History","authors":"Marcelo Bucheli , Thomas DeBerge","doi":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102198","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102198","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper aims to provide an historical perspective that offers insights from existing business historical research for the enrichment of current international business (IB) nonmarket strategy literature. Identifying seven questions that are of interest to IB nonmarket strategy scholars, we highlight exemplary historical studies to illuminate insights into each of these questions. We maintain that historians’ ability to provide such insights is rooted in their methodology consisting of archival research and an analysis of firms’ decisions within the context of long-term political and economic processes. The questions discussed in this paper cover various areas: the adoption of rhetoric that embraces host-country nationalism, the use of an MNE’s third-country status to gain advantages over other MNEs, the development of secret nonmarket strategies, the building of coalitions to obtain support from home-country stakeholders, the elements that turn the political ties between the MNE and the host-country elite from an advantage into a liability, the direct intervention of MNEs in international diplomacy, and the strategies developed by MNEs to confront global anti-corporate activism.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51352,"journal":{"name":"International Business Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134995032","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 Tech Cold War, the multipolarization of the world economy, and IB research","authors":"Rosalie L. Tung , Ivo Zander , Tony Fang","doi":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102195","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper first traces the evolution of the Tech Cold War to multipolarization in the context of major developments in the global economy, i.e. the ascent of China in the 21st century, antagonistic rivalry for technological supremacy between the United States and China, and the impending bifurcation of the world economy and its consequences. The paper then discusses the implications of the aforementioned developments for international business (IB) research and practice. Research topics include the Global North-South divide, nonmarket influences, government-MNE relationships, industrial policy and techno-nationalism, innovation in a multipolar world economy, the rise of middle powers, and innovation under geopolitical pressure.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51352,"journal":{"name":"International Business Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71784530","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}
Randi Lunnan , Klaus Meyer , Ram Mudambi , Qin Yang
{"title":"The impact of knowledge and financial resource flows for MNE strategy: A typology of subsidiary roles","authors":"Randi Lunnan , Klaus Meyer , Ram Mudambi , Qin Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102190","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>What are the implications of finance and knowledge flows for MNE strategy? In this perspective paper, we discuss the antecedents and implications of HQ-subsidiary financial and knowledge flows. These flows differ, as the deployment of knowledge hinges on numerous contextual characteristics, whereas financial flows are relatively fungible. The complexity and diversity of knowledge resources make their transfer sensitive to several subsidiary-level characteristics such as R&D mandates, location, and inter-unit interdependencies. In contrast, financial resource flows are relatively easier to measure and directly compare across domains. Hence, they are likely to be allocated primarily on risk considerations, notably the equity control over the subsidiary. Both flows are needed for subsidiaries to succeed. Based on the interrelations of knowledge and financial resources flows into the subsidiaries, four types of subsidiary roles are categorized: strategic growth, interrelated, diversified, and independent. We discuss implications on subsidiary competitiveness and MNE risk and point to future research avenues addressing the dynamic and interrelated flows of both these resources.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51352,"journal":{"name":"International Business Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71784529","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}
Dongdong Huang , Lai Si Tsui-Auch , Marleen Dieleman , David Gomulya
{"title":"Politically connected EMNCs in a (de)globalising world: A review and future research directions","authors":"Dongdong Huang , Lai Si Tsui-Auch , Marleen Dieleman , David Gomulya","doi":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102196","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102196","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Emerging market multinational corporations (EMNCs) have emerged as significant global players, driven by their home country political connections that present both opportunities and challenges. Despite the insights gained from current studies, we still lack a clear conceptualisation of diverse political connections and the distinctiveness of politically connected EMNCs. Our study conducts a comprehensive review to bridge those gaps. We identify and compare two types of political connections, delve into major theories and highlight their main focus, key arguments, mechanisms and outcome predictions. Consequently, we propose a context-mechanism-outcome framework across three contextual levels, emphasising theoretical convergence and divergence between politically connected EMNCs and advanced market multinational corporations (AMNCs). We also spotlight disruptions caused by deglobalisation and their implications for those EMNCs. We conclude by proposing an agenda to reorient future research on this important and timely topic, especially in light of the deglobalisation trends that are reshaping the international business landscape.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51352,"journal":{"name":"International Business Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969593123000963/pdfft?md5=2e25a878b6fe4dba8a5b8a8e4d0044fe&pid=1-s2.0-S0969593123000963-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135388232","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}
F. Javier Sánchez-Vidal , M. Camino Ramón-Llorens , Maurizio La Rocca
{"title":"Corruption and intrapreneurship","authors":"F. Javier Sánchez-Vidal , M. Camino Ramón-Llorens , Maurizio La Rocca","doi":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102173","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102173","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This work analyzes for the first time the impact of the perception of corruption on intrapreneurship. The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) database and Transparency International information allowed us to implement a cross-country panel data analysis. The results show that the perception of corruption sands the wheels of intrapreneurship. The results take into account the low dispersion of the dependent variable and are robust to alternative proxies of corruption and different sets of control variables. As a further test, there is evidence of a quadratic relationship between corruption and intrapreneurship for less economically developed countries, which is indicative of differences in the aforementioned relationship for diverse levels of economic development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51352,"journal":{"name":"International Business Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969593123000732/pdfft?md5=938b7e8d2a573b7ecb6a2ab3ae3cead3&pid=1-s2.0-S0969593123000732-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135388764","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}
Hélène Langinier , Aline Pereira Pündrich , Akram Al Ariss
{"title":"Understanding professional migrant women’s successful career progression within the Big Four in Luxembourg","authors":"Hélène Langinier , Aline Pereira Pündrich , Akram Al Ariss","doi":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102174","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102174","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper identifies the resources used by professional migrant women (PMW) from Asian countries, Mauritius and Eastern Europe to succeed in their careers in the context of the Big Four firms in Luxembourg. Our study builds on 39 interviews, 21 of which are with PMW, and the remaining 18 are with leaders working in this field. We draw on the Theory of Practice of Bourdieu to highlight how a population who is a priori discriminated against can rebalance an unfavorable power dynamic through the identification of resources necessary to develop agency in order to succeed in a specific context. Understanding the role of the interplay between local and organizational factors in shaping the power logic that defines career progression provides the opportunity to alter the reproduction of a notoriously elitist field in favor of more diversity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51352,"journal":{"name":"International Business Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135347312","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}
Flladina Zilja , Gabriel R.G. Benito , Hamid Boustanifar , Dan Zhang
{"title":"CEO wealth and cross-border acquisitions by SMEs","authors":"Flladina Zilja , Gabriel R.G. Benito , Hamid Boustanifar , Dan Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102192","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines the role of chief executive officers’ (CEOs) wealth in explaining the cross-border acquisition (CBA) activity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). CBAs require substantial financial resources and expose the firm to additional risks. Within a micro-foundations framework, we integrate insights from the resource-based view and the upper echelons theory and argue that CEO wealth plays a dual role in the CBA activity of SMEs by alleviating financial constraints and increasing willingness to take risks. Using Norwegian census data for the period 2000–2013, we find consistent evidence that CEO wealth has a positive effect on the number, the geographic scope, and the likelihood of engaging in CBAs in high political risk countries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51352,"journal":{"name":"International Business Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71784480","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}
Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen , Claudine Gaibrois , Natalie Victoria Wilmot
{"title":"Perfection, hybridity or shutting up? A cross-country study of how language ideologies shape participation in international business","authors":"Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen , Claudine Gaibrois , Natalie Victoria Wilmot","doi":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102189","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102189","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Employees’ participation in professional international business (IB) communication has important consequences for knowledge transfer and processing, a crucial function for multinational enterprises (MNEs). Research suggests that participation is shaped by language, but prior research has focused on firm-internal language dynamics, meaning that less is known about the influence of external context. We help redress this balance by drawing on the sociolinguistic concept of “language ideologies”. Language ideologies, or shared sets of beliefs about language(s) amongst social groups, are societal-level phenomena that employees bring with them to work. As such, they are part of the external social, political and historical context of IB activities. Our analysis of 82 interviews in three countries indicates that some language ideologies block participation and create friction, while others support participation. Implications for the conceptual understanding of language in IB and the management of internationally active firms are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51352,"journal":{"name":"International Business Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969593123000896/pdfft?md5=e6183a77ad2af47aba9a2540ad5f3fc6&pid=1-s2.0-S0969593123000896-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135249187","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}