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A review of 50 years of research since Knickerbocker (1973): competitive dynamics in international business
Competition has long been considered a central element of strategy for multinational enterprises in classical foreign direct investment theories. This review evaluates the large and diverse literature on compe...
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Open AccessBilateral political tension and the signaling role of patenting in a host country
The current increasing volatility in international politics makes it more important to understand how multinational enterprises respond to political tension between host and home countries. This paper explains...
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Publisher Correction: The impacts of structural configurations on expatriates’ organizational commitment and assignment completion intention
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State dominance over the market: Reexamining the survival of China’s state-owned enterprises
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) and their liabilities have been extensively examined in the literature. However, less attention has been paid to how SOEs overcome such liabilities and even flourish in a market ...
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From Learner to Innovator: Knowledge Transfer from a Parent MNE and Foreign Subsidiaries’ Local Innovation
Knowledge transfer from a parent multinational to a foreign subsidiary does not automatically lead to innovation in a host country. To develop from a learner into an innovator, a foreign subsidiary must develo...
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The impacts of structural configurations on expatriates’ organizational commitment and assignment completion intention
Global employee mobility is a very important concern for multinational enterprises (MNEs), as such individuals are critical strategic human capital resources for MNEs. Ensuring that expatriates (one type of gl...
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Blockchain and OR Based Data Sharing Solution for Internet of Things
Communication between nodes in the Internet of Things (IoT) is still in its infancy, and several contemporary security dangers and issues are impeding data transmission in this process. In this research, we in...
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Organizational non-conformity in an emerging economy: Exploring the non-adoption of credit rating in China
Institutional scholarship tends to emphasize the tendency of organizations to conform to prevailing practices, but this study investigates Chinese firms’ non-conformity behavior in terms of not participating i...
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Correction: Subnational-level government influence and FDI location choices: The moderating roles of resource dependence relations
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Doing good, feeling good? corporate social responsibility and CEOs’ self-perceived status
This study examines how chief executive officers (CEOs) personally benefit from their firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities and the contingencies in this relationship. We apply stakeholder th...
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Subnational-level government influence and FDI location choices: The moderating roles of resource dependence relations
By linking the resource dependence perspective with research on foreign direct investment location choices, we analyze how the dependence relationship between the home country of a multinational enterprise (MN...
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Open AccessSpatial heterogeneity of tumor microenvironment influences the prognosis of clear cell renal cell carcinoma
Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is an immunologically and histologically diverse tumor. However, how the structural heterogeneity of tumor microenvironment (TME) affects cancer progression and treatmen...
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Open AccessEffects of whole-body vibration on sensorimotor deficits and brain plasticity among people with chronic ankle instability: a study protocol for a single-blind randomized controlled trial
Chronic ankle instability (CAI) is a form of musculoskeletal disease that can occur after a lateral ankle sprain, and it is characterized by pain, recurrent ankle sprains, a feeling of “giving way” at the ankl...
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International business in the digital age: Global strategies in a world of national institutions
Digital technologies are changing how businesses strategize and organize internationally. They not only enable cost reduction in businesses crossing national boundaries but also enable novel types of products ...
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Ecosystem social responsibility in international digital commerce
Despite the surge of interest in digital globalization, its social dimensions have received far less attention than deserved. The lack of conversation between the two prominent areas of IB research, digitaliza...
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Open AccessProtecting intellectual property in foreign subsidiaries: An internal network defense perspective
This study examines firm internal network structures as a defense of intellectual property rights (IPR) in high-risk environments with inadequate IPR protection. Specifically, we investigate firm social and kn...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Assessing the belt and road initiative as a narrative: Implications for institutional change and international firm strategy
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-021-09766-w
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Open AccessAssessing the Belt and Road Initiative as a narrative: Implications for institutional change and international firm strategy
This article explores the role of narratives as drivers that guide the institutional change associated with globalization and deglobalization. For China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to succeed as a driver ...
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Belt and Road Initiative, globalization and institutional changes: implications for firms in Asia
Research on Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is rising but far from complete. This special issue (SI) aims to enhance our understanding of how firms in Asia and beyond strategically respond to the BRI and what n...
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Open AccessInformal institutions and the international strategy of MNEs: Effects of institutional effectiveness, convergence, and distance
Informal institutions influence all aspects of international business (IB), but they have received limited attention in the literature relative to formal institutions. This article extends prior IB work by exa...
