Showing papers in "Journal of World Business in 2014"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a comprehensive outline of knowledge about TM, theoretical as well as practical, and identify several key trends that will continue to influence the practice and study of TM in the future.

TL;DR: This article found that firms that are affiliated with a business group, have more firm-and group-level international experience and have more technological and marketing resources are more likely to shift from exports to FDI.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce four talent management philosophies that vary in their perception of talent as (a) rare (exclusive) or universal (inclusive), and (b) stable or developable: the exclusive/stable, exclusive/developable, inclusive/stable and inclusive/developmental.

TL;DR: The authors studied the first step leading to catch-up, namely the managerial intent to acquire strategic assets that help closing the gap, and identified key factors contributing to firms' strategic intent to catch up by acquiring strategic assets abroad.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors adopt a social exchange theory perspective to explain the impact of talent management (TM) on the psychological contract and its outcomes, and they propose that in contexts where a war for talent prevails, the strong interest of Generations X and Y in training, development and career advancement makes highly engaged and extensive TM activities even more crucial for retaining talented individuals than is the case for the so-called Baby Boomer generation.

TL;DR: In this article, the integration of global mobility and global talent management can contribute to the success of the multinational enterprise's (MNEs) global workforce management systems, but the two areas of practice have largely been decoupled in research and practice.

TL;DR: The authors investigates how the concept of talent is understood, what talent management practices are in place, and what talent-management challenges may be confronting firms in China and India through the perspectives of 178 non-HR managers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a conceptual framework of talent in which the definition, operationalization and measurement of talent and its relation to excellent performance is clarified, and systematically introduce 11 propositions into the framework, building on fragmented insights from the literature.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a new, theory-driven and multidimensional conceptualization and operationalization of the Uppsala model for speed of internationalization, which is embedded in the main concepts of the original Uppala model.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new and systematic analysis of the likely associations between decision modes, information use, and network attachment among internationalizing SMEs is presented, and the analysis is subsequently contextualized in terms of two contingencies.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed how talent management (TM) is molded by institutional and corporate drivers in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) context and presented a framework that portrayed how various forces impact the TM process.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop and test a framework about the resource and context-specificity of prior experience in acquisitions and examine whether the role of EMNCs' idiosyncratic resources (such as access to new markets and cheap production facilities) and investment experience in enhancing the performance of target firms differs across acquisition contexts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address how the concept of "Talent Management" is of both theoretical and practical value, and how to use it for leader development, succession, on-boarding, training, and organizational design.

TL;DR: This paper examined the impact of early foreign market entry on new ventures' performance outcomes and highlighted the importance of incorporating time-based dimensions of international venturing for a better understanding of the performance implications of early internationalization.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that talent management and expatriation are two significantly overlapping but separate areas of research and that bringing the two together has significant and useful implications for both research and practice.

TL;DR: In this article, a set of hypotheses aimed at explaining the multifaceted nature of power and decision-making in multinational firms is presented. But the authors focus on how power is gained within large organizations, such as the intraorganizational network of MNCs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effect of talent management practices, differentiation strategies, and incongruent talent perceptions in terms of psychological-contract fulfillment, and showed the importance of clearly defining talent and communicating this clearly to all employees.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the implications of psychological contract theory for global talent management practice and demonstrate a largely financially driven balancing act between self-initiated and organization-assigned expatriate assignments.

TL;DR: This article examined the potential of host country national (HCN) coworkers as an important yet often overlooked source of support for expatriates working in the U.S. and found that expats were more likely to seek advice from HCN coworkers they perceived as being credible and likable.

TL;DR: This paper explored the effects of formal and informal institutions on strategic alliance partner preferences in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong and found that cultural and commercial conventions represent important informal institutions, whereas more formal institutions include the regulatory, economic, and political forces in the environment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on the behavioral theory of the firm to the postulate relationships between organizational slack and performance aspirations, and internationalization processes, and find that firms with high organizational slack that have performance that falls below aspirations managers are more likely to exhibit a rapid pace, a wider scope, and an irregular rhythm in their internationalization process.

TL;DR: Using the Ghanaian construction industry as an empirical focus, this paper explored T&K transfer potential in Sub-Saharan Africa using the construction industry and found significant weaknesses in transfer across industry subsectors and between foreign and local firms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the dynamics of institutional constraints and the reaction of business to such constraints and propose a conceptual framework of home country pressures influencing multinational enterprises' international operation, and the variation of their impact across industries and firms.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of emotional intelligence (EI) in cross-cultural adjustment of expatriates on international assignments was examined, and an interesting interaction effect between gender and the ability to appraise and express emotions was found.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors find that exposure to and accumulated experience dealing with political risk allows firms to better implement a wide set of political actions such as negotiation of entry conditions, lobbying, litigation, campaign contributions and coalition formation, leading to preferential conditions, reduced environmental uncertainty, reduced transaction costs and increased long-term sustainability.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effect of time compression diseconomies in post-entry expansion by examining the speed of establishing subsequent subsidiaries and the performance outcomes and found that early mover subsidiaries are less likely to make a profit when they are established with faster speed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate that the interaction between knowledge-based and network-based activities is essential in understanding how subsidiaries gain influence within an MNC, and they test this using data on 184 foreign-owned subsidiaries in the UK.

TL;DR: In this article, the antecedent factors that drive MNE subsidiaries to adopt VEMPs, using data drawn from a key emerging country -Turkey, were explored. And the effects of stakeholder pressures, perceived polluting potential, customer focus and competitive intensity were investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of top-executive compensation and regional institutions on the outward FDI of a sample of Chinese-listed firms is examined. And the results show that top- executive cash pay and equity ownership have a positive association with OFDI.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore a non-linear relationship between corruption and two measures of bank foreign market commitment, the capital invested and the share of equity, on a sample of 131 bank entries in forty host countries.