{"title":"A framework for a more reflexive engagement with ethnography in International Business Studies","authors":"Jasmin Mahadevan , Fiona Moore","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101424","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101424","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A limited idea of what ethnography involves, and dominant disciplinary ideas of rigour and validity stand in the way of International Business studies engaging more deeply with ethnography. For higher managerial and scholarly relevance, we propose the use of “reflexive engagement”. Reflexive engagement involves the researcher (ethnographer), the research subjects (actors) and those reading the study report (audience) in the “ethnographic triangle”. We outline the principles of reflexive ethnographic engagement with all three sides of the ethnographic triangle. We provide ethnographers in International Business studies with concrete research and writing advice regarding the three criteria of ‘excellent’ ethnography, namely positionality, plausibility and intersubjectivity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":"58 4","pages":"Article 101424"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44564318","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":"International Business, digital technologies and sustainable development: Connecting the dots","authors":"Francesca Ciulli , Ans Kolk","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2023.101445","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jwb.2023.101445","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Building on emerging debates on the ‘dark’ and ‘bright’ side of digital globalization, and calls for considering its environmental and social implications in more detail, this perspective article seeks to ‘unravel’ these components of ‘the digital age’ for International Business (IB). Inspired by the affordance perspective developed in Information Systems research, we offer IB scholars a new approach to ‘zoom in’ on the (potential) role of individual novel technologies in addressing specific sustainable development issues. Three examples illustrate the relevance of this approach for multinationals and for developing innovative research avenues in IB, which extend existing insights on digital globalization.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":"58 4","pages":"Article 101445"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44539947","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}
Arrian A D Cornwell , Emmanuel Ogiemwonyi Arakpogun , Mary E. Thomson
{"title":"Exit or stay: A critical incident analysis of decision-making in conflict-torn countries","authors":"Arrian A D Cornwell , Emmanuel Ogiemwonyi Arakpogun , Mary E. Thomson","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2023.101459","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jwb.2023.101459","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Deploying small world representation logic, we examine the context-specific factors that inform managerial decision-making in conflict-torn countries. Drawing on insights from thirty-one managers, we spotlight nine higher-order heuristics that commonly inform MNEs’ mental representations and their managers’ decision to exit or stay. These heuristics were identified by categorising the commonalities arising from our respondents’ accounts on what information they search for (<em>discovery heuristics</em>) and how it was evaluated (<em>evaluation heuristics</em>). We discovered that information accessibility, conditioned by firms’ in-country experiences, is paramount. Furthermore, since employees are strategy shapers, they can undermine the resilience-enhancing benefits of operational flexibility in conflict-torn countries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":"58 4","pages":"Article 101459"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46246806","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":"What happens abroad, stays abroad? Exploring how corporate social irresponsibility in domestic and international markets influences corporate reputation","authors":"Giulio Nardella , Irina Surdu , Stephen Brammer","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101420","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101420","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) can occur in the multinational enterprise's (MNE) domestic and international markets, thereby risking corporate reputation. However, are corporate reputations differentially influenced by the <em>location</em> of CSI events? Drawing on the ethnocentric bias perspective, we examine how CSI affects corporate reputations according to whether CSI emerges in the MNE's home or international markets. We theorize that, when CSI occurs in an international host market, the negative relationship between CSI and corporate reputation is generally weaker. Conversely, when CSI arises within the home location, home country-located CSI has the strongest negative relationship to corporate reputation. Our findings generally reflect the core argument of the paper: home-country based CSI incidents may be more consequential to an MNE's corporate reputation compared to those CSI incidents which unfold in certain host countries. Our longitudinal analysis, comprising of 2,401 CSI events, involving 465 MNEs, confirms our theorizing. Among our principal contributions, this study adds to the growing and important literature on the dark side of international business (IB).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":"58 4","pages":"Article 101420"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43825982","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":"Scaling digital and non-digital business models in foreign markets: The case of financial advice industry in the United States","authors":"Murad A. Mithani","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2023.101457","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jwb.2023.101457","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>This study investigates whether a digital business model helps firms internationalize faster. It tests the hypothesis that a digital business model accelerates the rate of internationalization because economies of scale enabled by digitalization exceed those offered by a non-digital business model. Based on analysis of foreign digital and non-digital entrants in the U.S. financial advice </span>industry, the study found that while digital entrants scaled faster than their non-digital counterparts, a diverse product portfolio harmed digital entrants even when it benefited non-digital entrants. The contrast between scale and scope highlights that digitalization only conditionally benefits internationalization.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":"58 4","pages":"Article 101457"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44518605","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}
Pavlina Jasovska , Hussain G. Rammal , Carl Rhodes , Danielle Logue
{"title":"Tapping foreign markets: Construction of legitimacy through market categorization in the internationalizing craft beer industry","authors":"Pavlina Jasovska , Hussain G. Rammal , Carl Rhodes , Danielle Logue","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101425","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101425","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Literature provides insights into various mechanisms for achieving legitimacy via adaptation. Yet we know little about how internationalizing firms can break away from existing legitimacy conventions and still achieve congruence. We investigate how internationalizing firms selectively reconstruct meanings of market categories as sources of legitimacy. We qualitatively examine internationalizing craft beer industry across four countries (Australia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, and New Zealand) and find that breweries engage in stretching, corroborating, and molding market category meanings. We extend current theorizing on legitimacy by demonstrating how actors orchestrate cultural codes of their market categories to conform to legitimacy prescriptions that matter.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":"58 4","pages":"Article 101425"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42200652","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":"Time in international strategic alliances: Progress and prospect","authors":"Nuno Oliveira , Fabrice Lumineau , Africa Ariño","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2023.101456","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jwb.2023.101456","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Time has significant implications for the functioning of international strategic alliances. Drawing on a systematic review (1943–2022), we consolidate the literature around types of time (i.e., clock, event, cyclical, and life-cycle) and time facets (e.g., duration and speed) in international strategic alliances. This review's findings aid us in developing a temporal-relational framework that intends to advance the study of how partners’ similar as well as dissimilar perspectives about time can engender either friction or enrichment. This framework supports a research agenda that emphasizes subjective time to advance theory about international strategic alliances.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":"58 4","pages":"Article 101456"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41846679","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":"Absorptive capacity, learning and profiting from outward FDI: Evidence from Canadian firms","authors":"Walid Hejazi , Jianmin Tang , Weimin Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2023.101427","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jwb.2023.101427","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The extant literature highlights a threshold productivity level firms are required to attain ex-ante in order to successfully undertake FDI. The current paper extends this framework by modelling a threshold productivity range which is below the required threshold productivity level. Firms in this range can successfully venture abroad when learning allows these firms to rise above that threshold productivity level, ex-post. Theoretical models which predict negative profitability for firms which undertake FDI when below the required threshold productivity level are extended to incorporate learning, and negative profits during the transition path turn positive once productivity increases above the threshold productivity level. The hypotheses developed are tested using panel data on firms operating in Canada over the period 2000 to 2014. These firm-level data include measures of productivity, firm size, R&D intensity, and when firms undertake outward FDI. We demonstrate that firms which venture abroad while in the threshold productivity range and also have sufficiently high levels of absorptive capacity, proxied by R&D intensity, are able to learn from their foreign experience, and hence increase their productivity levels, ex-post.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":"58 3","pages":"Article 101427"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44083691","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}
Alexandra Kriz , Maria Rumyantseva , Catherine Welch
{"title":"When does the internationalization process begin? Problematizing temporal boundaries in international business","authors":"Alexandra Kriz , Maria Rumyantseva , Catherine Welch","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101423","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101423","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Recently there has been greater interest among international business researchers in studying processes and their temporal dimensions. We examine one such dimension by problematizing when processes are deemed to commence or end. Reperiodizing the start and end points of a process under study affects the theoretical conclusions about the process itself. We develop a methodology for reperiodization and apply it to an empirical study into the internationalization process of a type of new venture: the spinoff firm. Our conclusions specify the theoretical insights gained through reperiodization, demonstrating how this research strategy can be used to study processes in international business.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":"58 3","pages":"Article 101423"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43628040","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}
Johann Fortwengel , Gabriela Gutierrez Huerter O , Tatiana Kostova
{"title":"Three decades of research on practice transfer in multinational firms: Past contributions and future opportunities","authors":"Johann Fortwengel , Gabriela Gutierrez Huerter O , Tatiana Kostova","doi":"10.1016/j.jwb.2023.101430","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jwb.2023.101430","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The cross-border transfer of practices lies at the heart of how multinational enterprises (MNEs) coordinate their international business activities. Research on transfer has increased substantially over the last three decades and now constitutes a well-established literature. For a systematic analysis, we review a sample of 167 articles published in 18 top journals. We structure these past contributions in a ‘Practice Transfer Framework.’ Our mapping reveals some limitations and blind spots in existing theoretical and methodological approaches. Beyond more conventional extensions, we offer several ideas that could qualitatively elevate research on transfer, commensurate with the paradigms of 21<sup>st</sup> century global business.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51357,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Business","volume":"58 3","pages":"Article 101430"},"PeriodicalIF":8.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43753361","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}