Showing papers in "Journal of World Business in 2018"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze how a firm's home country influences its internationalization and propose two complementary types of influence: comparative advantage, comparative disadvantage, country of origin advantage, and country-of-origin liability.

TL;DR: This paper extends the scope of INV theory via a model that encompasses the internationalization process of digital platform providers, and reports on a longitudinal case study of a digital platform provider (covering the period 2000–2017), to gain in-depth insight into the INV phenomenon.

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis demonstrates that leaders' emotional intelligence (EI) demonstrates incremental validity and relative weight in predicting subordinates' task performance and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) after controlling for the Big Five and cognitive ability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use signaling theory to explore the causes of an unacknowledged source of business group heterogeneity, which may result in differences in business groups' geographic scope and location choices as they internationalize.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore an under-explored difference between MNEs from emerging economies and their AE counterparts concerning their country of origin and find that EEs have less munificent business environments and are more deterred by barriers to entry.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the influence of FDI in land in agriculture in developing countries, a phenomenon also known as land grabbing, on host country food security, and suggest a differential impact depending on the investor's country of origin.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the selection, use, and reporting of control variables in studies published in the leading international business (IB) research journals and provided recommendations on how to effectively identify, use and report controls in IB studies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the policymaking that underpins the internationalization of firms is not only a top-down (state inspired) but also a bottom-up process.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the effect of institutional compatibility on the outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and found that institutional compatibility (thus legitimacy) at home and institutional incompatibility (thus lack of legitimacy) abroad reduce SOEs' OFDI activities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted an interpretive interview study involving managers and advisers to reveal the knowledge types required by micromultinationals, and they extended the SME internationalization literature by distilling knowledge types that this unique body of small multinationals requires.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the pursuit of a mercantilist domestic agenda by autocratic governments is influential upon the magnitude and direction of state-owned multinational enterprises' (SOMNC) outward investment via acquisition.

TL;DR: The natural resources sectors have not been prominent in the recent international business (IB) or management literature as mentioned in this paper, but they are characterized by a set of features that make them different, and raise issues that are central to international business.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between decision-making autonomy and the development of product innovations and found that higher autonomy increases the probability of a subsidiary developing a product innovation.

TL;DR: The authors examined the antecedents of speed of foreign market re-entry into previously exited markets and found that the length of experience accumulated between initial entry and exit does not lead to earlier re-entries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that escape foreign direct investment (FDI) happens when unknown future "rules of the game" cause concern about the continued productive capacity of the economy.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of domestic political connections on foreign direct investment has been investigated and it has been shown that domestic political knowledge also shapes foreign expansion and that contacts provided by former politicians may not be useful for foreign expansion whilst their political knowledge can be of help in countries with discretionary governments and with similar institutional environments to the one of the home country.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper dichotomized export strategy in emerging economies into two distinctive types, expansion-oriented vs. escape-oriented, with the former inspired by exploiting firm-specific competencies as portrayed by the RBV and the latter motivated by avoiding the domestic institutional deficiencies as informed by the institutional perspective.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use meta-analytic techniques to quantitatively synthesize and evaluate the impact of centralization, formalization and socialization on knowledge transfer in MNE integration literature.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Salience and Institutional Analysis and Design framework is introduced as a means to analyze the MNE strategies used to address informal miners across different governance levels in the gold mining sector of Ghana and discusses the implications of these strategies for sustainability.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how the interplay between home and host country regulatory institutions affects the investment strategy of private equity firms in an emerging market context, and they show that when a host emerging market has a strong regulatory institutional system relative to other emerging markets, it is more likely that this country will attract PE investments from firms based in home countries with very strong and very weak institutional systems.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors examined how Chinese companies deal with this legitimacy imbalance by investigating five cases where Chinese firms acquired firms from more developed economies, and they found that there is a difference in internal and external legitimacy vis a vis internal stakeholders, and that their relative importance changes over the course of the merger process.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the direct effect of board composition and family ownership on the equity-based ownership strategies of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in their affiliates, and how institutional distance may moderate this.

TL;DR: This article developed a theoretical model that examines the impacts of a foreign parent's disseminative capacity on knowledge transfer to International Joint Ventures (IJVs), and tested their model with data from 199 IJVs in South Korea.

TL;DR: In this paper, the extractive sector MNEs have been seen as an obstacle to sustainable development, because they operated in enclaves with limited local engagement, restricting FDI.

TL;DR: The authors examines the engagement of subsidiaries in co-operative, the simultaneous pursuit of competitive and cooperative behavior, in subsidiary role development, and uncover how framing of the mandate situation shapes subsidiary actions to influence role development.

TL;DR: In this article, a multilevel analysis across 11 welfare states shows that social enterprises are perceived as a more efficient solution to social problems when a liberal or socialist logic dominates a given state's market coordination and social welfare provision.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed how institutional factors (i.e., labor market flexibility and efficiency) influence the relationships between speed of human and functional integration on acquisition performance and found that both relationships are moderated by labor market flexible and efficiency, but in different ways.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the factors underpinning the international diffusion of environmental management standards (EMSs), focusing on how macro-level institutions explain differences in the extent to which ISO 14001 has penetrated into each country.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the impact of internationalization on the corporate social performance (CSP) of extractive industry firms (EIFs) and argue that internationalization positively impacts their CSP because, as they internationalize, they increasingly benefit from actions that help them enhance their social licenses to operate (SLOs) and hence have a greater need to increase both the overall social (SP) and environmental (EP) aspects.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the internationalization of firms with ownership links to the state from the perspective of resource dependence theory, and argue that internationalization can reduce dependence on the home country government, but, paradoxically, this strategy also creates additional dependences, shifts the power balance, and provides rationales for increasing government control.