Showing papers in "International Business Review in 2021"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight some of the major changes in the global business environment over the past 30 years and draw attention to four new realities that they believe merit increased attention in the IB literature: the growth of populism and economic nationalism, sustainable development and climate change, new digital technologies, and changing power relationships.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors systematically review and critically appraise the literature of ambidexterity from a micro-foundational perspective, within the context of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how social media, digital, and traditional sales communication tools are leveraged during the three main phases of the B2B sales process within international SMEs.

TL;DR: The state of the art of research in International Entrepreneurship can be found in this paper, which discusses the levels of analysis, individual, organizational and inter-organizational, and founding constructs of the field, distance and opportunities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined two South-Asian airlines: Pakistan International Airlines and Sri Lankan Airlines, and proposed a four-stage approach towards renewing such underperforming organizations to respond effectively to black swan events and external shocks.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look back and assess this research stream, noting key milestones and the contributions it has made to our knowledge and raise the question of whether the topic of emerging markets has been glorified, and whether businesses and governments have been overlooking some undesirable developments in some emerging markets.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore a process linking servant leadership (SL) to organizational identification (OI) and assess moral meaningfulness as a moderator in the relationship between SL and OI through internal CSR perceptions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a framework for understanding location and governance choice in the reshoring decision and highlighted the value of integrating location-specific factors with process-and firmspecific factors.

TL;DR: In this paper, a microfoundations perspective and prior experience in international entrepreneurship are explored as an essential microfoundation for the dual network capability, and a post-hoc analysis reveals that at a higher level of market change, younger firms benefit more from network exploration, whereas older firms achieve greater success when leveraging benefits from network exploitation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a new lens toward internationalization advantages for multinationals: new O (open resource advantage), L (linkage advantage), and I (integration advantage).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relational mechanisms-PIS relationship by drawing insights from the relational view to argue that foreign market knowledge mediates the relationship between relational mechanisms and PIS.

TL;DR: This paper found that FDI has a negative (crowding-out) effect on domestic entrepreneurship at below-threshold levels of institutional capacity, and a positive (rowdinging-in) effect at above threshold levels of institution capacity.

TL;DR: In this paper, a knowledge-based dynamic capabilities (KBDC) that act as drivers of innovation performance in innovation ecosystems, across different market economies, are analyzed. And a KBDC-centered innovation ecosystem framework is proposed to highlight the innovation performance and competitive advantage inherent in each knowledge-related capability.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of marketing skills in developing a dynamic capability (market responsiveness) for improved marketing performance, and the changes in this relationship under highly competitive intensity, were examined empirically for emerging market exporting firms in advanced economies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between organizing paradox (formalization and decentralization), and organizational levels of learning paradoxes, and found that learning ambidexterity has a positive impact on both organizational resilience and organizational energy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the relationship between internationalization and corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication in Russian firms and found that internationalization positively affects CSR reporting, as it is expected to enhance the legitimacy of Russian firms abroad.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how parent superior competitiveness affects the subsidiary contextual ambidexterity (innovation initiative and motivation of learning from the parent), which in turn increases subsidiary innovation performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate whether and how digitization may affect the power relationships that constrain the upgrading of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in global value chains.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of FDI flows on institutional quality in African countries by distinguishing investments from developed versus developing economies, and found no significant FDI effect from developed and developing economies on the institutional quality of host countries.

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic literature review on the interplay between global value chains (GVCs) and emerging market firms' environmental sustainability remains fragmented, and a coherent picture of the dispersed body of knowledge on the environmental implications of global production vis-a-vis emerging markets firms is lacking.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the international opportunity exploration and exploitation processes of high-technology international new ventures (INVs) operating in the global medical devices sector and found that sequential ambidexterity applies to how the subject firms manage the exploration and exploit of opportunities in the delivery of their innovations to global markets.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of exploration, exploitation and ambidexterity on export performance and the moderating role of investment in infrastructure is explored, and it is shown that ambidextrousness has a negative effect on trade performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors systematically review the relationship between cross-border knowledge flows and innovation across several literature strands in international business, management, strategy and innovation, and provide insights into where the literature is likely to head and develop in the future.

TL;DR: In this paper, the development of an ambidextrous context in a rapidly growing emerging market multinational (EMNE), thus unbundling cultural and structural complexities, is explored and identified through the micro-foundational lens of ambidexterity.

TL;DR: This paper used a case study methodology to explore how three Chinese multinationals (Citic, Sinopec and Chinalco) developed non-market relations with the institutions of three African countries, namely, Algeria, Gabon and the Republic of Guinea, both during and after the submission of international tenders, to win strategic contracts and securely embed the company in question within the target host country.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used scientometric analysis to identify gaps in research and propose a number of future research directions for the International Business Education (IBE) scholarship, and compared the scholarship to the Academy of Management Learning and Education and to the Journal of International Business Studies together with the journal of World Business journal scholarships.

TL;DR: This article reviewed the content of the International Business Review (IBR) since its foundation thirty years ago, and analyzed statistically the topics addressed by the journal's contributors, concluding that the underlying forces that have led to the emergence of new themes are political, social and economic.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how different forms of accumulated exploitable knowledge (i.e., export experience with the current firm and past entrepreneurial experience) stimulate export destinations, defined as the number of foreign markets where businesses sell their products/services.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the intersection between the internationalization of multinational enterprises and their institutional environments by undertaking a critical review of the existing literature, given that institutional forces not only shape organizational behavior but also affect EMNEs' internationalization strategies and organizational outcomes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the symbolic motivations (snob, bandwagon and Veblen motivations) underpinning luxury purchases between and within Tier-1 and lower-tier cities in two prominent emerging markets, China and India.