The Rise of Multinationals from Emerging Economies
Achieving a New Balance
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Liability of Emergingness of Emerging Market Banks Internationalizing to Advanced Economies
International management scholars are paying increasing attention to the internationalization of service firms from emerging markets, but empirical research on the challenges facing such firms remains scarce. ...
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Open AccessIs Internationalization Beneficial to Innovation? Evidence from a Meta-analysis
This paper conducts a meta-analytical review to examine the impact of internationalization on innovation, with particular attention to the role of research design factors that may confound causal inferences. T...
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Introduction: The Rise of Multinationals from Emerging Economies—Achieving a New Balance
The spread of particularly American multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the first half of the last century marked an increasing domination of the world economy by these firms. In the second half of the twentie...
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Do Foreign Ownership Modes Matter for FDI Spillovers?
The welfare-enhancing role of spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) in a host country generates significant interests and debates among policymakers, long after a wide range of regulatory changes in ...
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Implications for International Business of Separatist Movements: The Case of Scottish Independence
In September 2014, the people of Scotland will vote in a referendum proposing that Scotland should become an independent country. If voters in Scotland accept the proposal, Scotland would become a new country....
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Outward Foreign Direct Investment and the Adaptive Efficiency of the German Institutional System
There have been calls to incorporate comparative institutional li terature, such as the Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) (Hall and Soskice, 2001) and National Business Systems (NBS) (Whitley, 1999), into research...
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The Type and Number of Resources and the Performance of Early Internationalizing South Korean SMEs
The growth of research into ‘born-globals’ (Bell, 1995; Madsen and Servais, 1997) led to research that has expanded our knowledge of early internationalizing SMEs (Jones and Nummela, 2008). The literature has ...
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Watching the players at the climate poker table
In two decades of covering climate-change negotiations, Frank McDonald, has seen youthful hope fight dark forces, and a distant threat become a reality.
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The Persistence of Outward Foreign Direct Investment from German Manufacturing Industries
The longitudinal properties of outward FDI and multinational company (MNC) strategies and activities have been extensively investigated by international business scholars (Buckley et al., 2007; Butler and Domi...
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Das adaptierte deutsche Arbeitsbeziehungsmodell im Vergleich
Das deutsche Modell der Beziehungen zwischen Arbeitgebern und Arbeitnehmern innerhalb eines Unternehmens — vor allem die betriebliche Mitbestimmung — stand lange Zeit in der Kritik, während das anglo-amerikani...
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Cross-Border Transfer of Employment Relations Approaches: Country-of-Origin Effects and the Level and Type of Industry Internationalization
The cross-border transfer of business and management practices within multinational companies (MNC) forms an important strand of research in international business. The way MNCs are shaped by their institution...
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Neuropsychology and Coma Management
Stedman’s Medical Dictionary-26th Edition (1995) defines a coma as “a state of profound unconsciousness from which one cannot be roused; may be due to the action of an ingested toxic substance or of one formed...
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Conclusions and Policy Implications
The study reported in this book is the first of its kind to assess the impact of both labour relations practices and labour relations approaches on the performance of German subsidiaries. The study incorporate...
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Overview of Employee Relations in Germany and the United Kingdom
At the macro-economic level, the importance of employee relations (ER) in contributing to countries’ economic success has recently been highlighted by a number of authors (see, for instance, Hall and Soskice, ...
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Institutional Environments and Employee Relations in German Firms
Heightened globalization pressures, characterized, inter alia, by rising capital mobility and increasing international competition have led to a growing interest in the institutional environments in which firms o...
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Employee Relations in Multinational Companies
As outlined in Chapter 2, employee relations (ER) in different national economies are often portrayed as being distinct. This raises a number of issues when a company from one country establishes a subsidiary ...
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Voice in Employee Relations Systems
A systematic and comprehensive assessment of the performance impact of alternative ER patterns requires an integrated framework that draws together the discrete strands of the relevant literatures. There has b...
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The Characteristics of Voice Mechanisms in German Subsidiaries
The results of the regression estimates for the pooled sample of German and US subsidiaries are shown in Table 7.1. The results are presented in summative form. For ease of presentation, this summary table of ...
