{"title":"Go small or go home: Operational exposure to violent conflicts and foreign subsidiary exit","authors":"Hyoungjin Lee , Chris Changwha Chung","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101361","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>This study aims to open the black box of heterogeneous responses to violent conflicts by focusing on subsidiaries’ operational exposure to violent conflict and their decisions to exit host countries. Drawing on real options theory, we propose a viable approach </span>multinational enterprises can take when they encounter violent conflicts in their operating locations. Our analysis of 3,479 foreign subsidiaries operating in 11 countries over 26 years suggests that the exit decision of any given subsidiary located in a conflict-affected country depends on its operational scope. However, this effect depends on the characteristics of the operations the subsidiary undertakes, specifically, whether the subsidiary conducts natural resource-seeking operations and the degree of operational overlap with the same-parent affiliates.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136841637","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}
Nicholas R. Prince , Benjamin Krebs , J. Bruce Prince , Rüediger Kabst
{"title":"Revisiting Gooderham et al. (1999) “Institutional and Rational Determinants of Organizational Practices: Human Resource Management in European Firms”","authors":"Nicholas R. Prince , Benjamin Krebs , J. Bruce Prince , Rüediger Kabst","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101316","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101316","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54835874","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":"Introducing the eventful temporality of historical research into international business","authors":"Stephanie Decker","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101380","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101380","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Historical research represents an alternative understanding of temporality that can contribute to greater methodological and theoretical plurality in international business (IB) research. Historians focus on the importance of events within their historical context and structure their accounts through periodisation, assume that the temporal distance between the past and present determines the temporal positionality of researchers, and seek to reconstruct past events through historical sources, which require critical interpretation. Historical research provides an alternative methodological approach to temporality, context, and distance with relevance to a range of IB theories.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090951622000712/pdfft?md5=86d94793cd5b5b5f777230489bd9f684&pid=1-s2.0-S1090951622000712-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42768404","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":"Orchestrating ecosystem resources in a different country: Understanding the integrative capabilities of sharing economy platform multinational corporations","authors":"Jing Zeng","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101347","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101347","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper investigates how sharing economy platform multinational corporations (SEP-MNCs) orchestrate ecosystem resources to drive sustainable growth in a different country, through a dynamic capability perspective. Based on a multiple-case design, we offer a process perspective that identifies three sets of distinct integrative capabilities that come to the fore at different stages of the SEP-MNC's ecosystem development in a different country. By arguing that dynamic capabilities need to be co-created, we posit that, ultimately, the platform ecosystem value creation requires collective engagements of both internal and external resources of the platform ecosystem in building and preserving the collaborative action that amplified their individual resources to identify new and novel opportunities. We therefore re-conceptualizing dynamic capabilities of SEP-MNCs resides at the ecosystem level where the capabilities become an emergent and highly integrated property, with recurrent patterns that only become apparent from continuous interactions with their ecosystem partners. We also contribute to the IB literature by offering a holistic view that infuses dynamic capabilities with the themes of interdependence, sub-national network coordination, and data intelligence; themes that are yet to be fully incorporated into IB scholarship.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090951622000384/pdfft?md5=1bad7939f572e73fd721c5a6b48c608a&pid=1-s2.0-S1090951622000384-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54835966","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}
Jing Yu Yang , Liang Wen , Stefan Volk , Jane Wenzhen Lu
{"title":"Temporal boundaries and expatriate staffing: Effects of parent–subsidiary work-time overlap","authors":"Jing Yu Yang , Liang Wen , Stefan Volk , Jane Wenzhen Lu","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101367","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101367","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>By integrating the boundary-spanning perspective with the expatriate staffing literature, we explore why and how temporal boundaries between multinational enterprise (MNE) parent and subsidiary locations affect MNEs’ deployment of expatriates in foreign subsidiaries. Temporal boundaries, defined as local work-time schedule differences, delimit the degree of work-time overlap between two locations. A lack of work-time overlap between MNE parent and subsidiary locations creates significant barriers in day-to-day, remote real-time communication, resulting in increased deployment of expatriates as intermediaries by parents to overcome these barriers. Conversely, greater parent–subsidiary work-time overlap enables more remote real-time communication via digital technologies, altering the cost–benefit analysis of deploying expatriates over local nationals, consequently reducing parents’ reliance on expatriates as intermediaries. Therefore, we posit a negative relationship between parent–subsidiary work-time overlap and the expatriate ratio in a subsidiary. Further, we posit that the negative relationship is weakened by home – host country distance in terms of information and communication technology development and linguistics because technological and semantic boundaries can reduce the effectiveness of parent–subsidiary real-time communication. Empirical analyses of 22,556 subsidiaries established by 5,912 Japanese MNEs operating in 31 host countries between 1990 and 2018 support our theorizing.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54836011","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}
Aleksi Niittymies , Kalle Pajunen , Juha-Antti Lamberg
{"title":"Temporality and firm de-internationalization: Three historical approaches","authors":"Aleksi Niittymies , Kalle Pajunen , Juha-Antti Lamberg","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101381","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101381","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper contributes to process-oriented international business research by showing how three distinct historical approaches can enrich theoretical understanding concerning temporality in firm de-internationalization. First, we show how comparative historical analysis unleashes the causal structure of the process and provides explanatory understanding of the temporal grounding of the mechanisms driving the process. Second, we explicate how interpretive history reveals the embeddedness of de-internationalization in the prevailing spirit of the time. Finally, we consider how poststructuralist history enables us to focus on the strong subjectivity of individuals in which multiple temporalities come together in a chaotic combination underlying behavior.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090951622000724/pdfft?md5=88090cc9f7997ec0c025e1c4ece64518&pid=1-s2.0-S1090951622000724-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47718822","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":"Headhunter-assisted recruiting practices in foreign subsidiaries and their (dys)functional effects: An institutional work perspective","authors":"Vesa Peltokorpi","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101366","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101366","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper applies the institutional work perspective to elucidate how and why dysfunctional effects are reproduced by HRM practices. Our analysis of headhunter-assisted recruitment of local employees in foreign subsidiaries demonstrates how mutual dependence, self-interests, and a stratified labor market lead to specific candidate search criteria and limit the scope of search. It also shows how these practices result in limited positive effects from the key actors’ perspective, but in the long run reproduce voluntary turnover, communication-competence misalignment, and limited use of local talent pools. However, because these practices have become commonly used, the actors are unwilling and/or unable to change the system.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54836002","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}
George O. White III , Tazeeb Rajwani , Sorin M.S. Krammer
{"title":"Legal distance and entrepreneurial orientation of foreign subsidiaries: Evidence from Southeast Asia","authors":"George O. White III , Tazeeb Rajwani , Sorin M.S. Krammer","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101382","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101382","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>How will variation in legal distance influence a foreign subsidiary's propensity to engage in entrepreneurially orientated initiatives within the context of an emerging market environment? We answer this question by combining elements of institutional theory to suggest that legal distance between a foreign subsidiary's parent home and host country, as well as managerial perceptions of deficiencies in the host country legal service sector, will influence EO initiatives. By analyzing 352 multinational enterprise foreign subsidiaries operating in the Philippines and Thailand our results indicate the complexity of these relationships in that there is a curvilinear (U-shaped) relationship concerning the legal distance between a foreign subsidiary's parent home and host country and its propensity to engage in EO initiatives. Our findings also suggest that this curvilinear relationship will strengthen as managerial perceptions of host country legal deficiencies increase, particularly when the parent possess an in-house legal affairs department. Following these insights, we discuss theoretical implications and future research opportunities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48728068","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":"Necessary conditions in international business research–Advancing the field with a new perspective on causality and data analysis","authors":"Nicole Franziska Richter , Sven Hauff","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101310","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101310","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Many researchers in international business (IB) refer to necessity when they theorize about the relationships between different concepts. However, necessary conditions involve a specific causal logic: they represent constraints, bottlenecks, or critical factors that must be overcome for a desired outcome to exist. Usually, this logic is not fully acknowledged, neither in theoretical thinking nor in empirical research. In this paper, we demonstrate the relevance of necessary conditions in IB research and discuss how an adequate consideration of necessity logic can advance the field. Furthermore, we introduce necessary condition analysis (NCA) as a new analytical technique that identifies necessary conditions in data sets. We illustrate its application by analyzing whether certain institutional factors are necessary conditions for inward foreign direct investment. Finally, we assess the value of necessity logic and NCA as novel approaches to think about causality and to analyze data in IB.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090951622000037/pdfft?md5=c710e67b848ac7392e94c8af4e345607&pid=1-s2.0-S1090951622000037-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54835785","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}
Panagiotis Ganotakis , Palitha Konara , Mario Kafouros , James H. Love
{"title":"Taking a time-out from exporting: Implications for the likelihood of export re-entry and re-entry export performance","authors":"Panagiotis Ganotakis , Palitha Konara , Mario Kafouros , James H. Love","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101349","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101349","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Drawing from Organizational Learning Theory, we explain how the “time-out period” from exporting affects a) the likelihood of re-starting exporting and b) re-entry export performance. We also explain how foreign collaboration influences these two relationships. We show that the time-out period has an inverted U-shaped relationship with the likelihood of re-starting exporting, and a U-shaped relationship with re-entry export performance. Foreign collaboration enhances managerial confidence and thereby increases the likelihood of re-starting exporting during the <em>earlier</em> phases of the time-out period. It also enhances re-entry export performance by accelerating new knowledge accumulation in the <em>later</em> phases of the time-out period.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090951622000402/pdfft?md5=095a9209301546457cc0c0994d85b6bc&pid=1-s2.0-S1090951622000402-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44734770","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}