并非所有的威胁都是平等的:象征性的和现实的威胁以及母国国民的部署

IF 8.6 1区 管理学 Q1 BUSINESS
Fiona Kun Yao, Jing Yu Yang, Song Chang, Jane Wenzhen Lu
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通过将心理学方法扩展到威胁,我们提出了一个威胁-权变模型,以了解东道国威胁的两个领域-象征性和现实性-如何驱动跨国企业(MNEs)部署母国国民来管理其外国子公司。当在东道国面临与伦理和道德有关的象征性威胁时,跨国公司会采取严格和保守的行动,这增加了将母国国民派往外国子公司担任高管的可能性。然而,在处理与东道国潜在经济损失有关的现实威胁时,跨国公司具有适应性,减少了将母国国民转移到国外的趋势,并在外国子公司中增加了对东道国国民的使用。这两种威胁相互作用,影响人员配置决策。此外,产业全球化对两种威胁的影响具有非对称的调节作用:全球化强化了象征性威胁的影响,但弱化了现实威胁的影响。我们使用了初步的档案研究和补充的实验室研究来检验我们的假设。总的来说,我们的研究提供了一个额外的理论解释,以解释跨国公司对东道国两个威胁领域的不同反应。我们总结了对国际商业和全球流动性研究的启示。
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Not all threats are equal: symbolic and realistic threats and the deployment of parent-country nationals

Not all threats are equal: symbolic and realistic threats and the deployment of parent-country nationals

Through extending the psychological approach to threats, we advance a threat–contingency model to understand how two domains of host-country threats–symbolic and realistic–drive multinational enterprises (MNEs) to deploy parent-country nationals to manage their foreign subsidiaries. When faced with symbolic threats related to ethics and morals in a host country, MNEs act rigidly and conservatively, increasing the likelihood of deploying parent-country nationals as executives in foreign subsidiaries. When dealing with realistic threats associated with potential economic losses in a host country, however, MNEs are adaptive, decreasing the tendency to transfer parent-country nationals abroad and increasing the use of host-country nationals in foreign subsidiaries. The two threats interact in affecting staffing decisions. Moreover, industry globalization moderates asymmetrically the influences of the two threats: globalization strengthens the effect of symbolic threats but weakens the effect of realistic threats. We used a primary archival study and supplementary laboratory studies to test our hypotheses. Overall, our study provides an additional theoretical account to explain MNEs’ divergent responses toward two domains of threats in a host country. We conclude the study with implications for international business and global mobility research.

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CiteScore
16.20
自引率
10.30%
发文量
84
期刊介绍: The Selection Committee for the JIBS Decade Award is pleased to announce that the 2023 award will be presented to Anthony Goerzen, Christian Geisler Asmussen, and Bo Bernhard Nielsen for their article titled "Global cities and multinational enterprise location strategy," published in JIBS in 2013 (volume 44, issue 5, pages 427-450). The prestigious JIBS Decade Award, sponsored by Palgrave Macmillan, recognizes the most influential paper published in the Journal of International Business Studies from a decade earlier. The award will be presented at the annual AIB conference. To be eligible for the JIBS Decade Award, an article must be one of the top five most cited papers published in JIBS for the respective year. The Selection Committee for this year included Kaz Asakawa, Jeremy Clegg, Catherine Welch, and Rosalie L. Tung, serving as the Committee Chair and JIBS Editor-in-Chief, all from distinguished universities around the world.
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