{"title":"The role of dynamic capabilities in global strategy of emerging economies’ multinationals","authors":"Zaheer Khan, Y. Lew, Rekha Rao‐Nicholson","doi":"10.1080/00208825.2019.1703375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.2019.1703375","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The internationalization of firms from emerging economies have attracted significant research interest. Yet, there is limited research that has examined the role of dynamic capabilities in the global strategy of these firms, and how these firms develop and use different set of dynamic capabilities in their foreign operation. This article provides key insights of the special issue and highlights important areas for future studies on this important topic. The six articles shed light on the nature and role of dynamic capabilities in the context of firms from emerging markets.","PeriodicalId":55644,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78974965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two decades of management research on emerging economies: a citation and co-citation review","authors":"M. Ferreira, N. Reis, Cláudia Sofia Frias Pinto","doi":"10.1080/00208825.2020.1724470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.2020.1724470","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Recent years have witnessed an unprecedented increase in scholars’ interest in emerging economies, with an increasing number of articles published. This study investigates the knowledge base that has formed the foundation for research on emerging economies. Using bibliometric techniques of citations and co-citations, we reviewed the extant management/business research on emerging economies to identify the intellectual structure and the main research concentrations of the field over the past two decades, from 1992 to 2013. The findings reveal that an institutional perspective has been foundational to the research on emerging economies multinationals. Yet, there is a growing emphasis on firms’ strategic choices and the use of resource, and dynamic capabilities-based views – entering and exiting emerging economies. Institutional perspectives complement a greater emphasis on the global strategies of firms in and out of emerging economies as scholars delve into the emerging countries multinationals’ dynamic capabilities as sources of competitive advantage. This study extends the current comprehension of the theories and themes researched, how the research agenda has progressed, and the conceptual idiosyncrasies of emerging economies studies. We provide scholars and practitioners with a global rear view of the field, organize, classify and systematize the stock of accumulated knowledge and the trends of theorizing, as a foundation to spawn future research endeavors.","PeriodicalId":55644,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87280689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pervaiz Akhtar, S. Ullah, S. H. Amin, Gaurav Kabra, Sarah Shaw
{"title":"Dynamic capabilities and environmental sustainability for emerging economies’ multinational enterprises","authors":"Pervaiz Akhtar, S. Ullah, S. H. Amin, Gaurav Kabra, Sarah Shaw","doi":"10.1080/00208825.2019.1703376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.2019.1703376","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The purpose of this study is to enhance our understanding of how macro (country)—level dynamic capabilities (DC), such as government environmental policies, legal and market requirements, and technological advances, and micro (firm)—level DC, such as organizational size, culture, and managerial characteristics, are related to emerging economies multinationals’ environmental sustainability policies and practices. Limited studies explore linkages between macro-and micro-level DC and environmental sustainability, which urge emerging economies’ multinationals to reconsider their environmental policies and practices in order to compete with enterprises from developed countries. We develop a theoretical framework and offer propositions about the fundamental links between macro and micro DC and emerging economies environmental sustainability efforts. The propositions can be empirically tested in subsequent studies using country-level and firm-level data to examine the interactions between macro-and micro-level capabilities, in relation to sustainable policies and procedures, for multinationals in emerging economies.","PeriodicalId":55644,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76466160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adapt to the wild: the effect of dynamic capabilities on international entry mode","authors":"Y. Liu, Yuanfei Kang","doi":"10.1080/00208825.2019.1703379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.2019.1703379","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The literature about the relationship between an emerging market enterprise (EME)’s dynamic capabilities and its international entry modes, such as cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and Greenfield investment, is limited. This study offers a model based on the dynamic capability perspective complemented by the industry-based view and institutional theory. The proposed hypotheses are tested using binary logistic models with survey data from 303 Chinese outward foreign direct investment firms. The findings confirm that an EME’s adaptive dynamic capabilities that are contingent upon industry and institutional actors influence its international entry mode strategic choices. Results show that adaptive dynamic capability can positively affect the likelihood of an EME opting for a Greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI) rather than cross-border M&A. The host country’s institutional quality and home country industry conditions-–industry research and development (R&D) input–-also can positively influence an EME to opt for Greenfield investment. Suggestions for future research and managerial implications are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":55644,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77603114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New challenges and opportunities in the global marketplace: learning from developed-country multinationals’ failures","authors":"J. Amankwah‐Amoah, E. Osabutey","doi":"10.1080/00208825.2019.1703377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.2019.1703377","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this article, we integrate the attention-based view of the firm and the organizational ambidexterity literature to develop a perspective on the effects of unbalanced attention to both domestic and foreign expansion. We utilize the case of British supermarket Tesco’s expansions in the UK and USA to demonstrate divestment as an unintended outcome of unbalanced attention to both domestic and foreign markets. We demonstrate how emerging-market multinationals could learn from historical international expansion strategic failures by developed-country multinationals.","PeriodicalId":55644,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89299277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Myropi Garri, Lee Spicer, V. Pereira, Yama Temouri, A. Malik, S. Tarba
{"title":"Building dynamic capabilities for high margin product development: a corporate control style perspective","authors":"Myropi Garri, Lee Spicer, V. Pereira, Yama Temouri, A. Malik, S. Tarba","doi":"10.1080/00208825.2019.1703380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.2019.1703380","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article contributes to the dynamic capabilities (DCs) literature by exploring the link between sensing, seizing and reconfiguring and firm performance defined as commercially successful high margin products development (HMPD). Our qualitative findings are based on semi-structured interviews conducted within a multinational telecommunication corporation. Our qualitative findings show that the sensing, seizing and reconfiguring aspects of DCs positively influence firm performance. Moreover, the level of positive influence of DCs on performance depends on the corporate control style (CCS) of the firm, since CCS directly affects the seizing and reconfiguring activities of DCs. CCS also regulates the link between sensing and seizing DCs activities and firm performance. We find evidence that there is no specific order in which the sensing, seizing, and reconfiguring activities occur. We also find that the identification of ’Surge’ and ‘Lurch‘events is a key channel for managers to enhance DCs in their firms.","PeriodicalId":55644,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90094047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Context and HRM: Theory, Evidence, and Proposals","authors":"W. Mayrhofer, P. Gooderham, C. Brewster","doi":"10.1080/00208825.2019.1646486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.2019.1646486","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Human resource management (HRM) has paid insufficient attention to the impact of context. In this article, we outline the need for HRM to take full account of context, particularly national context, and to use both cultural theories and, particularly, institutional theories to do that. We use research publications that utilize the Cranet data to show how that can be done. From that evidence, we develop a series of proposals for further context-based research in HRM.","PeriodicalId":55644,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2019-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75562789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Cranet Survey: Improving on a Challenged Research-Practice?","authors":"J. Christensen, Frans Bévort, E. Rasmussen","doi":"10.1080/00208825.2019.1646491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.2019.1646491","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Cranet-survey has mapped human resource management (HRM) practices for more than 25 years, and so it is timely to take a closer look at the significance of this unique multinational, longitudinal, empirical endeavor. How may we understand the inner workings and emergent practices of this ambitious research effort in order to better assess the value of the unique data-set and propose avenues for its improvement? This is of course a daunting task if the purpose is to make a general evaluation, as was the case in 2011 in the Human Resource Management Review issue on the Cranet International Network. Rather, the contribution of this article is to examine the established research practices of the Cranet Network from the point of view of incoming researchers to identify and assess fundamental challenges of design, measurement, and project management that underlie many of the more apparent and often-discussed issues relating to validity, comparability, and the multinational adaptation of standardized research tools. To accomplish this, the article analyzes the Danish Cranet project from its inception in 1991 until today, with particular emphasis on the effort to establish a longitudinally comprehensive Danish database with application in cross-country comparisons, exemplified here through comparisons with New Zealand. On this basis, the article discusses the ramifications for the Cranet Network and proposes opportunities and potentials for improving future consistency and comparability of the global research practice.","PeriodicalId":55644,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2019-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84571300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Antecedents of Comparative Differences in Union Presence and Engagement: Evidence from Coordinated and Liberal Market Contexts","authors":"M. Brookes, G. Wood, C. Brewster","doi":"10.1080/00208825.2019.1646488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.2019.1646488","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study employs a large on-going survey database to explore the antecedents of comparative differences in union representation and the extent to which employers engage with them at the workplace, and how this has changed over time. It finds that amongst organizations employing more than 100 employees, there has been no uniform decline in the presence of unions, or engagement by employers with them at the workplace. In other words, although we do not measure the range of topics covered or the impact of such engagement, it is clear that neither the neo-liberal nor the more critical theory suggestions that systems are naturally converging to a common model of minimal union presence and engagement receives much support. Collective employment relations are influenced by comparative capitalisms and, to a lesser extent, legal systems and remain a significant feature of many continental European economies.","PeriodicalId":55644,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2019-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88989003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wilson Aparecido Costa de Amorim, A. Fischer, J. Trullén
{"title":"A Comparative Study of Trade Union Influence over HRM Practices in Spanish and Brazilian Firms: The Role of Industrial Relations Systems and Their Historical Evolution","authors":"Wilson Aparecido Costa de Amorim, A. Fischer, J. Trullén","doi":"10.1080/00208825.2019.1646487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.2019.1646487","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study explores trade union influence over human resource management (HRM) practices in Spanish and Brazilian organizations using the Cranet 2014 dataset. While some of the existing data suggest that trade unions may hold little power within surveyed organizations, we offer additional evidence contradicting this. Trade unions’ influence is better understood when taking into account the industrial relations systems of Spain and Brazil, as well as their historical evolution. Understanding such evolution helps us account for similarities and differences observed in the way trade unions influence HRM in these two countries.","PeriodicalId":55644,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2019-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90730275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}