Showing papers in "International Business Review in 2017"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the relevance of different types of innovation for firms' export performance and show that organizational innovation enhances export performance both directly and indirectly by sustaining technological innovation.

TL;DR: In this paper, a panel data analysis of an international sample of 696 companies for the period 2007-2014 shows that voluntary assurance acts as a legitimization tool implemented by companies in response to normative, coercive and mimetic pressures; that is, companies operating in countries with a greater legal system and cultural development, especially in industries that are greatly concerned about sustainability, are more likely to issue an assurance statement.

TL;DR: This integrative literature review of AC adds to the categorization of the literature, links the international business research to AC, and provides promising future research directions.

TL;DR: A critical and systematic review of the current literature on citizens' trust in e-government, with a particular focus on the most critical factors influencing citizens trust in respect of the adoption of eGovernment is provided in this article.

TL;DR: In this article, a quantile regression model is used to test the influence of communities' culture features on corporate environmental sustainability reporting (CESR) practices to overcome some limitations of conventional statistical approaches applied by previous research.

TL;DR: In this article, the causal relationship between environmental quality, Foreign Direct Investment and economic growth using simultaneous-equation panel data VAR model was investigated in 17 MENA countries over the period 1990-2012.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors elaborate on the expectation that organizational ambidexterity has explanatory power for profitable globalization and perform case studies of IKEA and AB Volvo to motivate their expectation and illustrate how these firms have been able or not able to balance and manage the simultaneous processes of exploration and exploitation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop and test an original framework exploring the role of a balanced innovation approach, the ambidextrous innovation of born global firms, to enhance the performance of newly born international firms, known as born globals, by leveraging the highest levels of innovation for superior performance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the internationalization stages followed by traditional SMEs to seize global market opportunities, which can be triggered by internal and external factors, reflect characteristics of different internationalization models proposed in the literature.

TL;DR: This article showed that the shareholders of Chinese firms that acquire a target firm in a host country with a low level of political risk gain higher cumulative abnormal returns than those firms targeting companies in countries with a high level of risk.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of board gender diversity on dividend payments in the context of emerging economies using a dataset of listed firms from India, China and Russia over the period 2007-2014.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors argue that state ownership creates dependence of SOEs on their home governments, which may undermine manufacturing SOEs' willingness to conduct OFDI, autonomy and market orientation, and legitimacy in overseas markets.

TL;DR: In this article, a multilevel empirical analysis of 1200 firms in 24 emerging markets indicates that controlling ownership is positively related to earnings management, but the level of minority shareholder protection in a country weakens this positive relationship.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of three informal institutions, performance orientation, self-expression and social desirability, on the extent of internationalization by early stage entrepreneurial firms was examined.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a theoretical model specifically tailored to the context of SMEs in order to study the relationship between entry mode choice and foreign venture performance and showed that international experience as a resource and product adaptation as a capability improve the performance of non-equity entry modes by mitigating liabilities of smallness inherent to SMEs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a survey dataset of 187 Spanish family firms to study the characteristics that may influence family firms in their decision of internationalizing their activity, concluding that the CEO academic level of achievement influences the level of success in international expansion.

TL;DR: This paper investigated whether emerging economy multinational enterprises (EMEs) that undertake outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) become more productive, controlling for the self-selection into the global investment market.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed and tested a conceptual model to identify the impact of internal drivers (personal and organizational) on the international performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the extent to which breakthrough innovation (both tech-innovation and market innovation) has a positive impact on both economic and strategic export performance, and they found that the relationship becomes stronger when more human resources are available and the exporter becomes more oriented toward the importer.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report a comparative qualitative study of how decision-makers in internationalizing SMEs respond to relevant institutions in their domestic environment through networking activity, finding substantial differences between the two national samples in SME decision makers' networking behaviour in response to specific institutional conditions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effect of the disclosure of integrated information on the cost of capital of 995 companies in 27 countries and 3294 observations over a period from 2009 to 2013.

TL;DR: In this article, three groups of Spanish exporters are identified according to their managerial involvement with social media tools: potential in SM, initiated in SM and expert in SM; these three clusters of exporting firms are fully characterized and their relationship with firm performance is determined.

TL;DR: This article conducted a bibliometric study of articles published in twelve leading international business journals over three decades in a longer time frame (1996-2015) and found five research trends were found in IB journals: business ethics, integration of stakeholder management, the evolution of the CSR concept, the political and social demands of CSR, and the financial implications.

TL;DR: In this paper, a longitudinal analysis of the learning processes, sources and foci of four New Zealand-based SMEs that internationalized incrementally and four that internationalised rapidly is presented.

TL;DR: This article studied the extent to which emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs) engage in strategic asset-seeking acquisitions in advanced countries in relation to the strength of their home-and host-country national innovation system (NIS).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the usefulness of sustainability reporting in reducing information asymmetry as result of lower dispersion and higher accuracy in financial analysts' earnings forecasts and found that the disclosure of sustainability information alone is not sufficient in this regard.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that managers that operate in dynamic industries develop stronger asset management capabilities, and whether these capabilities contribute to in-crisis performance is contingent upon the industry environment in which the capability evolves.

TL;DR: In this article, Born Globals have significantly higher turnover and employment levels as well as job growth rates compared to other start-ups, and they show a wider market reach, but little to no productivity advantage compared to firms with less or later internationalization.

TL;DR: In this article, a preliminary stage of in-depth interviews with senior managers, they identified three capabilities, market intelligence generation, marketing adaptability, and team cohesion, that underscore the interaction between innovation and marketing.

TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper examined whether foreign institutional investment influences firms' dividend policies and found that foreign institutional investors do not change firms' future dividend payments once they have made their investment choices in China.