Showing papers in "Journal of World Business in 2011"

TL;DR: The need for multinational firms to be as competitive in the global marketplace as possible has increased dramatically over the past twenty years and this has meant many strategic opportunities to international human resource management.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that there are two opposing classes of explorative and exploitative capabilities differentially linked to output variables and introduce the notion of third-order capabilities to balance trade-offs and maximize internationalization performance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of managerial characteristics on the choice of foreign entry mode and found that TMTs with international experience are more likely to choose full-control entry modes over shared control entry modes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated and compared structure, properties and mean levels of susceptibility to interpersonal influences and highlighted the interfunctional interactions among British and Indian consumers, finding that normative interpersonal influences were significant across nations, but the role of informational interpersonal influences was significant only among Indian consumers.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of managerial ties with government officials and foreign MNC partners on knowledge acquisition and investigate how the acquired knowledge affects firms' new product market performance, finding that knowledge acquisition from external sources could only enhance new product markets performance with the presence of realized absorptive capacity.

TL;DR: The authors analytically and graphically examines the Uppsala model's risk formula (Johanson & Vahlne, 1977) in its two variables: commitment and uncertainty.

TL;DR: Using interview data from managers in eight German and Japanese corporate HQs and their subsidiaries in Japan or Germany, this article provided the first large-scale empirical analysis of the language barrier and its solutions.

TL;DR: The authors identify key theoretical developments in international managerial decision-making research, synthesize how they have been employed, and discuss contributions that may emerge as researchers devote increased attention to bounded rationality.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how ownership structure affects these strategic orientations and their effectiveness in facilitating international business success and find that entrepreneurial orientation directly promotes a firm's internationalization activities, whereas market orientation has an inverse U-shaped relationship with internationalisation activities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of cross-cultural training on expatriate managers' adjustment in Nigeria and found that cross-culture training programs provided to employees and their families by multinational corporations have become crucially important for successful international operations.

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis of 42 empirical studies was conducted to quantitatively summarize the corruption literature within a holistic theoretical framework, finding that variables within the political/legal, economics, and socio-cultural categories were equally correlated with national corruption.

TL;DR: This article examined how national culture values affect strategic decision-making processes (SDMPs) of internationalized firms and proposed hypotheses regarding the associations between three SDMP dimensions and three national culture aspects, notably the relationships between hierarchical decentralization and power distance; lateral communication and individualism; and formalization and uncertainty avoidance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between organizational structure, job characteristics, and work outcomes in export sales organizations and found that higher levels of job autonomy, job variety and job feedback enhance the job satisfaction of export sales managers.

TL;DR: The authors used quantitative functional-level data to chart language use in subsidiaries' communication with other MNC units and local partner firms, and analyzed some consequences of these patterns against the background of previous qualitative work in the area.

TL;DR: In this article, the adoption timing of an international treaty, the Paris Convention on Industrial Property Rights, leads to more inbound foreign direct investment (FDI), and time spent with this IPR reform interacts with the host country's innovation base to affect inbound FDI.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the process and outcomes of cultivating external legitimacy through the employment of host country nationals by multinational enterprises' (MNEs) affiliates in the United Arab Emirates.

TL;DR: This paper reviewed the historical growth and development of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the territory extending from Morocco to Turkey alongside the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean as far east as Iran, and south to Sudan and Yemen.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the selection of the country in which a firm starts internationalization and propose that some firms strategically choose a non-sequential internationalization, that is, they select a country that is dissimilar to their country of origin for their first foreign expansion.

TL;DR: The authors examined managerial leadership and its cultural and historical foundations in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and found that a common cultural characteristic, ubuntu, was reflected in high levels of group solidarity, paternalistic leadership, and Humane Oriented leadership.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a model of why MNCs develop overlapping linkages to local subsidiary networks even if the subsidiaries have grown out of the initial start-up phase.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate whether foreign acquiring firms contribute towards enhancing the technological capabilities of local firms in foreign markets by using three dimensions of organizational characteristics based on absorptive capacity.

TL;DR: The authors apply a discursive approach to analyze how people account for the ways that specific languages are used in multilingual companies, and identify six different ways of accounting for language use, and map the various tensions between these accounts through which they can understand how the rise of English alters the discursive negotiation in two different organizational contexts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the complexity of managing people in a diverse context that is attracting the attention of investors who see Africa as the last great frontier, albeit one that they barely understand.

TL;DR: In this paper, factors affecting survival of foreign subsidiaries in the context of Japanese foreign equity ventures in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) were examined as determinants of survival while controlling for other determinants previously established in the literature.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effects of language standardization on the acceptance and use of e-HRM systems in foreign subsidiaries, based on interviews with subsidiary HR managers from two European MNCs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship among strategic orientation, strategy, and firm performance of high technology ventures in two transition economies (China and Russia) and found that there is a strong link between strategic orientations and resulting strategies in both transition economies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the nature of HRM in Mozambique and its relationship to business systems theory, and conclude that diversity between companies suggests a segmented business system, and the implications of these findings for government policy and management practice.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the findings of a study, conducted among 167 British importers, focusing on the factors that drive their adaptation in the working relationship with Western European or U.S. export manufacturers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the risk implications of switching options in multinational operations, and explored the extent to which the real options logic can be classified as best practice in decision-making and risk management.

TL;DR: The authors empirically examined whether managerial reactions to specific leadership scenario-based situations change as a consequence of the language they use and found that the choice of language (native or English) does not matter much for the studied leadership scenarios.