Showing papers in "Journal of World Business in 2017"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the literature on the exporting challenges and problems of small and medium scale enterprises in this era of globalization and identify gaps in the literature and provide directions for future research, which serve as a basis to understand the research gaps, opportunities, and undertake new research projects based on the propositions and the future research agenda outlined.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify benchmark criteria and develop coding schemes that IB scholars can use in review studies, and demonstrate the application of content analysis through a review of Content Analysis-based articles, published in the top eight IB journals from 1991 to 2015.

TL;DR: The authors systematically reviewed 494 articles in 31 journals over a 31-year period and found that international CSR research is far from being global and still emerging in ‘mainstream’ management/business.

TL;DR: The authors reviewed and evaluated 153 quantitative studies on FDI location choice over four decades from 1976 to 2015 across multiple disciplines, including international business, management, economics, urban and regional studies, and economic geography.

TL;DR: In this paper, a taxonomy of research published over the past three decades in international business, strategic management, finance, and economics is presented, with syntheses in seven strands: macroeconomic and financial markets environment, institutional and regulatory environment, political environment and corruption, tax and the taxation environment, accounting standards and valuation guidelines, cultural environment, and geographical environment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify three generations of evaluative criteria, each derived from different philosophical orientations, and show how these generations shape what the scholarly community considers to be "good" qualitative research.

TL;DR: In this article, a two-step analytic framework is proposed to better trace the meaning and practice of CSR in developing countries, which draws from an institutional logics approach combined with the Scandinavian institutionalist perspective on the circulation of ideas.

TL;DR: The authors investigate the extent to which host countries' speech and press freedoms influence corporate social irresponsibility (CSIR) for a sample of Multilatinas, observed during the period 2003-2012.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that context should be much more adequately emphasized in IB research and suggest guidelines for scholars to enhance the rigor of their research and to make their IB research more relevant for practitioners.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between board structure and risk taking behavior of emerging market firms by looking at firms' growth strategies in foreign as well as domestic markets and found that boards that are structured keeping in view the resource dependence role are more helpful in pursuing growth strategies.

TL;DR: The authors analyzed the impact of home country uncertainty on the internationalization-performance relationship of emerging market firms and argued that this relationship is strengthened for firms based in emerging countries with higher corruption and political risk.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the contribution of Latin America to the internationalization of firms from emerging markets, particularly as compared with the experience of other regions, and present some suggestions for future research.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of culture on companies' economic, social, and environmental sustainability practices are examined with a triple-bottom-line lens on sustainability, and they find that future orientation, gender egalitarianism, uncertainty avoidance, and power distance practices positively, and performance orientation practices negatively, predict corporate sustainability practices.

TL;DR: In this article, a study of 180 SMEs located in contrasting industry and home country contexts was conducted, and three distinct international business models (traditional market-adaptive, technology-exploiter, and ambidextrous explorer) were found among the SMEs studied.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look at the poor as producers and explore drivers of higher employee wages and find support for a mediated model, where SMEs with government contracts, higher exports, or female ownership achieve higher organizational efficiency, and in turn pay higher employees' wages.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that there is a need for a more fine-grained understanding of the human side, which requires conceptualizing M&As as practice-oriented processes.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of speed of internationalization on long-term performance of Spanish listed firms has been analyzed using knowledge-based view and organizational learning theory, and the results contribute to the existing IB literature on the performance of FDI, cross-country knowledge transferability, and nonsequential entry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that metacognitive and cognitive cultural intelligence are important cross-cultural competences that stimulate and enable expatriates to discover international opportunities and be innovative.

TL;DR: The authors describes a move to a more pluralistic perspective on statistics-based decision-making at the Journal of World Business, which is in spite of many criticisms that have been made both of p-values and how they are used in practice.

TL;DR: In this article, a composition-based logic toward international expansion by emerging market firms (EMFs) is presented, where firms use compositional investment, compositional competition, and compositional collaboration to create a unique competitive advantage in global competition.

TL;DR: This article explored the influence of language differences on power dynamics in multinational teams and found that different language policies, the degree of formality in language structures, and language proficiency disparity moderate team members' capacity to capitalize on these power sources.

TL;DR: This article examined the influence of perceived organizational support (POS: financial, career, and adjustment) and motivation (autonomous and controlled) on self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) organizational and community embeddedness.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify how barriers to absorptive capacity limit success in integrating external technology by firms in emerging markets and classify them into internal (managerial biases and weak social integration mechanisms) and external (muted activation triggers, conflicting source relationships, and feeble appropriability regimes).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the role of government support on the ownership choices by multilatinas in cross-border acquisitions, both directly and in moderating the relationship between institutional distance and knowledge access.

TL;DR: This article showed that overstating results can occur when the interaction term coefficient is statistically significant but the marginal effect is not significantly different from zero for some value(s) of the moderating variable.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the association between the Big 4 accountancy firms and the extent to which multinational enterprises build, manage and maintain their networks of tax haven subsidiaries and showed that public policy related to the role of auditors can have a significant impact on the tax avoidance behaviour of MNEs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed hypotheses from a bifurcation bias approach involving the asymmetric treatment of family and non-family assets, and test them on a sample of 6893 European family SMEs.

TL;DR: In this paper, an organizational ecological perspective was applied to address the impact of firm age on international entry mode choices, and an inverted U-shaped relationship between firm age and the choice of high-equity modes was found, and a higher degree of marketization further reinforced this relationship.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that strategic priorities towards foreign markets, Foreign Market Focus (FMF), as well as "Outward Looking Competences" (OLC) are important factors in enhancing productivity, and ultimately achieving a sustainable competitive presence abroad.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study firms in the formal sector operating in countries with different institutional backgrounds, and compare the incentives and constraints of staying within the formal sectors against the competitive pressures originating from the informal sector.