Showing papers in "International Business Review in 2015"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply and extend resource dependence theory to comparatively investigate major factors that determine the level of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) by emerging market firms (EMFs) in developed and developing markets.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed a database of Spanish and Italian SMEs and found that entrepreneurial orientation is a managerial attitude that enhances exports when managers also make efforts in organizational learning and innovation, but it might not be sufficient for increasing export performance if the company is not able to learn and to innovate.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of state ownership and institutional influences on value creation through cross-border mergers and acquisitions by Chinese firms during the period using a sample of 468 firms.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how marketing and research and development capabilities as well as degree of internationalization influence the innovation performance of SMEs and found that internationalization has a positive effect on innovation performance when SMEs' R&D capability or marketing capability is high.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of R&D internationalization on firm innovation performance was investigated using a longitudinal dataset of Taiwanese high-tech firms, which revealed a curvilinear U-shaped relationship.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a sample composed of internationally listed companies for the period 2003-2009 to analyse CSR information disclosures in family businesses, as well as the fundamental role of the independence of the board in this regard.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of the use of institutional networks by SMEs in the context of international entrepreneurship is examined and the significance of this influence is continuous and intertwined in the different stages of the internationalization process.

TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of corruption distance between pairs of countries and applying it to the special context of Latin America has been proposed, and it has been shown that corruption distance has an asymmetrical impact on FDI.

TL;DR: The authors examines the connections between corporate governance mechanisms and good practices, as informed by an empirical and contextual analysis on the basis of research methods triangulation, and presents nine specific antecedents of good corporate governance in weak institutional settings (Nigeria).

TL;DR: In this article, the role of social trust with regard to this gender preference has not been adequately investigated and it was found that MFIs favor women more in low trust countries and in countries where social trust formation is primarily behavioral.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze how knowledge, learning, and strategic intent shape export intensity during the period surrounding the initiation of export activities in small, independent firms, and find that pre-existing foreign knowledge influences export intensity in younger firms, but not in older ones.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study of exporting manufacturers examined the external and internal determinants of green export business strategy and its effects on export competitive advantage and performance and found that green export strategy positively affected firms' export product differentiation advantage but had no effect on export cost leadership advantage.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors address this research gap by referring to the four key dimensions of culture defined by Hofstede and seven top drivers of job satisfaction, and find that job characteristics' impacts vary significantly between countries, while others prove to be independent of national context.

TL;DR: Based on Schwartz's human values theory and the stimulus response and balance theory, the authors developed a research model to examine the drivers which influence consumers' and entrepreneurs' perceptions of corporate social responsibility (CSR).

TL;DR: In this article, the transfer of tacit and explicit knowledge from foreign parents to international joint ventures (IJVs) and the impact of these two types of knowledge transfers on the performance of young and mature IJVs were investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and innovation in an exporting context and found that while CSR contributes to developing a higher impact of technology orientation on exploratory innovation, the CSR effect toward building stronger exploitative innovation was not significant.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the moderating role of country developmental status on PCI coupled with two antecedents of PCI, namely consumer ethnocentrism and cosmopolitanism, and test a new model that incorporates these constructs with a sample of 2655 younger generation consumers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how the Chinese government influences the internationalization of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and of privately owned enterprises (POEs) in the process of entering into both developed and developing host countries.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between distance factors, market attractiveness, and network relationships, with particular attention to small and new ventures, and contributed to an understanding of the stability of the distance factors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a comprehensive conceptual model of seventeen hypothesized relationships among key structural, supervisory-related, and psychological factors, and examined this nomological network that leads to explaining export sales managers' intentions to quit.

TL;DR: In this article, a static and dynamic gravity model was developed to test the determinants of FDI between 14 investment partners and 39 host countries during the period 1990-2011 and evaluate the impact of the recent economic crisis on FDI.

TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic review of the market entry modes literature has been conducted to explain the multi-levels of the political environment that can have a moderating effect on transnational corporations' (TNC) market entry processes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the determinants of FDI in 260 EU NUTS2 regions between 2000 and 2006 and find that economic potential, labour market characteristics, technological progress and competitiveness exert a significant impact on FDI location patterns; in contrast, market size and labour regulation do not seem to play any noteworthy role.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use event study methodologies to analyze trends in home and host country patent applications of Chinese MNEs that acquire strategic asset-rich developed market businesses.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the measurement of performance for international new ventures (INVs) using a sequential mixed methods approach of exploratory interviews and a survey sample of 310 firms from New Zealand and Australia.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of managerial communication, managerial support, and three cultural dimensions on employee emotions, which in turn influence employee intentions and behaviors, and revealed that managerial support influences the employees' emotions as well as active resistance behavior.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors investigated whether state-controlled public firms exhibit a lower degree of market orientation than privately controlled public firms in China, and found that the firm's market orientation is relatively high when firm ownership is concentrated in the hands of non-state shareholders.

TL;DR: This article investigated the family-related performance antecedents of 121 expatriate managers assigned to a terrorism-endangered country and found evidence that safety-related intra-family tension significantly impedes expatriates' work performance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of internationalization experience and market scope strategy on the export performance of firms operating in Poland, using data from 2003 to 2010, an eight-year period that includes the country's accession into the European Union in 2004.