Copenhagen Business School

About: Copenhagen Business School is a education organization based out in Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Corporate governance & Context (language use). The organization has 2194 authors who have published 9649 publications receiving 341898 citations.

Contextualizing Experience Effects in International Business: A Study of Ownership Strategies

Abstract: Experienced firms act differently than newcomers, yet such differences vary with the context and with the type of experience. We thus investigate the effects of international experience on MNEs' ownership strategy across a range of developed and developing economies. We distinguish competence building and partner selection effects of experience, which vary between general international experience and country-specific experience, and across host contexts. This contextualization of the theoretical arguments suggests that the predicted effects hold in some host countries, but not in others. In support of these arguments, our empirical study of 1787 Taiwanese overseas subsidiaries finds that general international experience facilitates wholly owned operations in developed economies in North East Asia and Europe, while country-specific experience facilitates joint ownership in China.

Translog-II: a Program for Recording User Activity Data for Empirical Reading and Writing Research

Abstract: This paper presents a novel implementation of Translog-II. Translog-II is a Windows-oriented program to record and study reading and writing processes on a computer. In our research, it is an instrument to acquire objective, digital data of human translation processes. As their predecessors, Translog 2000 and Translog 2006, also Translog-II consists of two main components: Translog-II Supervisor and Translog-II User, which are used to create a project file, to run a text production experiments (a user reads, writes or translates a text) and to replay the session. Translog produces a log files which contains all user activity data of the reading, writing, or translation session, and which can be evaluated by external tools. While there is a large body of translation process research based on Translog, this paper gives an overview of the Translog-II functions and its data visualization options.

Formative Perspectives on the Relation Between CSR Communication and CSR Practices: Pathways for Walking, Talking, and T(w)alking:

Abstract: Within the burgeoning corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication literature, the question of the relationship between CSR practices and CSR communication (or between “walk” and “talk”) has...

The Performance and Risk Management Implications of Multinationality: An Industry Perspective

Abstract: Multinational enterprise in control of dispersed overseas resources and capabilities has been linked to strategic flexibility that allows the firm to take advantage of opportunities and manage exposures imposed by changing environmental conditions. This paper analyzes the implied performance and risk management effects in a comprehensive sample of public firms and finds supportive evidence for the proposition that multinationality can enhance performance across industries. However, the ability to exploit upside potential and avoid downside risk is industry specific. The positive effects of multinationality are found particularly pronounced among firms operating in knowledge intensive service industries while firms in capital-intensive primary industries display the inverse relationships.

Environmental upgrading of Third World enterprises through linkages to transnational corporations. Theoretical perspectives and preliminary evidence

Abstract: With economic globalization, Third World enterprises are increasingly collaborating with foreign firms through trade, subcontracting and equity linkages. The paper examines under which conditions linkages to foreign firms lead to environmental upgrading of Third World enterprises. Derived from the authors' research in a number of developing countries, the paper presents preliminary evidence of such upgrading. As the existing literature on environmental upgrading has a normative bias and tends to ignore economic mandates and constraints, the remaining part of the paper presents four theoretical frameworks based on standard business economics that may explain under which conditions linkages between Third World enterprises and foreign firms may be accompanied by environmental upgrading. It is argued that environmental upgrading in the value chain must be understood partly as a result of external industry and market forces, and partly as a result of the internal resources and competitive strategies of the companies involved. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.