Andrew Delios , Jiatao Li , Andreas P.J. Schotter , Demetris Vrontis
{"title":"Challenging the orthodoxy in international business research: Directions for “new” research areas","authors":"Andrew Delios , Jiatao Li , Andreas P.J. Schotter , Demetris Vrontis","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101552","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101552","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A strong critique of the international business field is that it has been “running out of steam” because IB scholars have failed to engage with emerging paradigm shifts in IB practice and management theory. IB research requires rejuvenation with timely, unique, controversial, and challenging new research questions. IB scholars need to move beyond incremental improvements to existing research agendas and focus on questions that are fundamentally new to the field. With this essay, we address four pressing topics (Buckley, Doh, & Benischke, 2017), namely: (1) the resurgence of populism, decoupling, and globalization; (2) disruptive technologies and digitalization; (3) sustainable development goals; and (4) the changing power relationships between firms, and between firms and governments. Our aim is to provide direct avenues for relevant new research that challenges the existing orthodoxy across the IB field. As part of this process, we introduce the papers in this special issue.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":"59 4","pages":"Article 101552"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141182787","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}
Peter J. Buckley (Professor) , Peter Enderwick (Professor) , Linda Hsieh (Professor) , Oded Shenkar (Professor)
{"title":"International business theory and the criminal multinational enterprise","authors":"Peter J. Buckley (Professor) , Peter Enderwick (Professor) , Linda Hsieh (Professor) , Oded Shenkar (Professor)","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101553","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Criminal syndicates have been around for millennia. While some were founded to undertake cross-border activities, others have expanded internationally, evolving into sophisticated organizations that mimic multinational enterprises. The growing prevalence of criminal multinational enterprises (CMNEs) provides an opportunity to revisit international business theory, particularly internalization theory. We start by defining the CMNE, explaining its rise and interface with legitimate multinationals, and establishing similarities and differences with legitimate multinational enterprises. Then, we use the CMNE to “stress-test” the internalization theory of the multinational enterprise, set its boundaries, and offer theoretical development by way of extension, qualification, and refinement.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":"59 5","pages":"Article 101553"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090951624000336/pdfft?md5=327177adc1bdd26b46af311b6fc29426&pid=1-s2.0-S1090951624000336-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141243918","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}
Weiting Zheng , Yaqin Zheng , Jingtao Yi , Noman Shaheer , Sali Li
{"title":"Context matters: The signaling role of foreign bidders’ reputation in cross-border acquisition contests","authors":"Weiting Zheng , Yaqin Zheng , Jingtao Yi , Noman Shaheer , Sali Li","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101551","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Existing research offers limited understanding of how foreign acquirers enhance their chance of success in cross-border acquisition (CBA) deals. Engaging and extending signaling theory, this paper argues that during the bidding stage of an acquisition deal wherein information asymmetry is heightened between the bidder and seller, reputation of foreign bidders can serve as a signal of quality, increasing their likelihood of winning a deal over domestic bidders. Importantly, this signal is only effective when there is strong nationalist sentiment in the seller's country. Analyses of 580 bidders in 275 cross-border multi-bidder acquisition contests between 1994 and 2016 support our predictions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":"59 4","pages":"Article 101551"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141090586","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}
Linda Hui Shi , J. Brock Smith , Shaoming Zou , Yuqing Han , Kang Frank Tan
{"title":"The mediated and moderated effects of IEO on international performance: An investigation of emerging market SMEs","authors":"Linda Hui Shi , J. Brock Smith , Shaoming Zou , Yuqing Han , Kang Frank Tan","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101550","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Mixed and inconsistent research results linking International Entrepreneurial Orientation (IEO) to international performance have led to controversies about the value of IEO as a determinant of international performance. Our research proposes a new model that considers international dynamic capabilities (IDCs) as a mediator between IEO and international performance. Cultural and institutional distance are considered as boundary conditions. Using multi-country, multi-informant, and multi-source data collected from 303 SMEs in China and Tunisia, we find that IDCs mediate the effect of SMEs' IEO on international performance, but the impacts of three IEO dimensions on IDCs vary under different institutional and cultural contexts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":"59 4","pages":"Article 101550"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140951647","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":"Language and identity: The dynamics of linguistic clustering in multinational enterprises","authors":"Komal Kalra , Wade Danis","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101541","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Research on language diversity in international business has shown that language is a core element of one's social identity and employees in MNEs often form homophily-based clusters with those who share their native language. Such clusters can significantly influence communication and knowledge sharing processes within MNEs. However, research assumes that language-based clusters are monolithic in nature. In this study of two MNE headquarters in India, we develop a model to depict the dynamic processes by which language intersects with other salient identity attributes such as gender, regional dialects, and education to change the composition of language-based clusters and alter group dynamics and organizational processes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":"59 4","pages":"Article 101541"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109095162400021X/pdfft?md5=4748dfda3228d7ae621793bede883a65&pid=1-s2.0-S109095162400021X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140558780","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}
Juan Bu , Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra , Yadong Luo , Stephanie Lu Wang
{"title":"Mitigating soft and hard infrastructure deficiencies in emerging markets","authors":"Juan Bu , Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra , Yadong Luo , Stephanie Lu Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101540","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines the impact of soft and hard infrastructure deficiencies on foreign firms’ investments in emerging markets and firm strategies to mitigate such impact. <em>Soft</em> infrastructure refers to intangible components such as institutions and regulations, while <em>hard</em> infrastructure encompasses tangible physical components like transportation, energy systems, and water supply. Drawing on resource dependence theory, we argue that foreign firms are likely to decrease their investment scale in countries with deficient soft and hard infrastructures to reduce uncertainty. We further propose two strategies to mitigate the negative effects of infrastructure deficiencies. First, foreign firms can adopt an <em>influencing</em> strategy, increasing their influence on the host government to alleviate the negative impact of soft infrastructure deficiencies. Second, a <em>shielding</em> strategy can be employed to reduce dependence on the host government, particularly when dealing with hard infrastructure deficiencies. We analyze data from a sample of 3,341 foreign firms operating in 88 emerging economies between 2005 and 2020 and find empirical support for these arguments, highlighting the significance of infrastructural considerations for foreign investments in emerging economies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":"59 4","pages":"Article 101540"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140547198","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":"Extradition treaties and emerging market firms’ host country location choice✰","authors":"Tianyou Hu , Shu Yu , Andrew Delios","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101542","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Traditional perspectives on interstate cooperation stress its benefits in facilitating foreign direct investment (FDI) by reducing uncertainty in international operations and enhancing mutual trust between countries. Our investigation explores another side of interstate cooperation by discussing the potential risks that can emerge from it. Our fulcrum for exploring risks comes from an explicit consideration of the divergent interests that can exist between nation states and business. We focus on the phenomenon known as bilateral treaties on extradition, which enable one country to request the repatriation of fugitives or convicted criminals from another country through official cooperation. Extradition treaties extend the jurisdictional influence of a firm's home country to a host country. This mechanism can create concerns for firms when they are motivated to use FDI to escape from their home country, especially from certain emerging markets with weak institutions. We propose that emerging market firms can be motivated to circumvent host countries that have established extradition treaties with their home country. Both private-owned and state-owned enterprises can show this behavior, albeit the effect is weaker for state-owned enterprises as compared to private-owned ones. The effect is particularly strong on firms that have documented malfeasance in their home country. We test these ideas on outward FDI made by Chinese firms in 106 foreign countries during 2001–2013.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":"59 4","pages":"Article 101542"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140547197","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":"From heterogeneity to inequality: The impact of nationality diversity on leadership in multinational teams","authors":"Gouri Mohan , Minna Paunova , Yih-Teen Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101535","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study distinguishes heterogeneity and inequality by exploring how nationality diversity influences leadership perceptions in multinational teams. Using two studies that assessed 105 (Study 1) and 40 (Study 2) teams comprising 4,120 and 2,180 dyads respectively, we find that nationality-based status influences leadership perceptions directly and indirectly through <em>competence</em> perceptions of higher-status peers. Nationality-based identity had no direct effect, but some evidence suggests an indirect effect on leadership that was mediated by <em>warmth</em> perceptions of culturally similar peers. These findings highlight nationality as a source of inequality beyond heterogeneity, elucidating the social perceptual paths that shape leadership in multinational contexts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":"59 3","pages":"Article 101535"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090951624000191/pdfft?md5=aea1fa9ee25c88e15affbbff4e27f1bb&pid=1-s2.0-S1090951624000191-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140328721","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":"State ownership and Chinese private firms’ OFDI in developed economies","authors":"En Xie , Fanshu Li , Zhan Wu , Vikas Kumar","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101534","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The study applies multiple logics based on institutional theory to explain how state ownership influences Chinese firms’ outward foreign direct investment (OFDI). A sample of Chinese listed private firms is used to understand which logic dominates the relationship between Chinese private firms’ state ownership and their OFDI in developed economies (OFDI-in-DE). We find that state ownership depresses Chinese private firms’ OFDI-in-DE, supporting the institution-(in)compatible logic, and that government subsidies weaken this negative effect, while negative media coverage of these firms strengthens it. The findings imply that the institution-incompatible logic dominates the influence of state ownership on Chinese private firms’ OFDI-in-DE.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":"59 3","pages":"Article 101534"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140321522","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":"Improving global value chain governance: Empowering women through third-party interventions within institutionally fragile contexts","authors":"Shengwen Li, Anthony Goerzen","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101533","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jwb.2024.101533","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Promoting women's empowerment in institutionally fragile contexts has been overlooked in global value chain (GVC) analysis, despite the recognition of its importance by UN SDG 5. Building on GVC governance and feminist institutional theories, we evaluate three aspects of an intervention led by an international non-governmental organization to empower women within socially and economically fragile environments. Using a unique dataset collected between 2018 and 2020 from 2,143 individuals in artisanal mining communities, our findings show that the intervention that promotes economic incentives and facilitates female leadership is positively related to women's inclusion and some empowerment indicators, yet its self-sustainability remains difficult within these challenging contexts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":"59 3","pages":"Article 101533"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090951624000178/pdfft?md5=b0ba1dc80808fb3a1bd5ddae7caa2e3b&pid=1-s2.0-S1090951624000178-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140192737","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}