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“Start-up Nation” vs “the Republic of Samsung”: power and politics in the partner choice discourse in Israeli–Korean business collaboration “初创国家”与“三星共和国”：以色列与韩国商业合作伙伴选择话语中的权力与政治

IF 2 Q2 Business, Management and Accounting

Critical Perspectives on International Business

Pub Date : 2021-05-10 DOI: 10.1108/CPOIB-09-2019-0073

Irina Lyan

PurposeThis paper aims to propose to politicize partner choice as a discourse that rationalizes, legitimizes and justifies the choice of partners by underlining economic, cultural and institutional differences to (re)create power relations. By reconceptualizing partner choice as a discourse, the paper challenges the established view of partner choice according to international business and management studies as a rational and strategic behavior based on resource complementarity, best practices and win–win situations.Design/methodology/approachBased on the longitudinal study of Israeli–Korean business collaboration, which includes in-depth interviews, observations and media texts, this paper uses critical discourse analysis (CDA) to demystify partner choice as neither a neutral nor an objective behavior to unveil its discursive construction and embeddedness in power relations.FindingsThe actors on both sides of the Israeli–Korean business collaboration evoke resource complementary discourse between “Israeli innovation” and “Korean productivity” to rationalize their partner choice as a win–win situation. CDA demonstrates how both sides are engaged in a “borrowing” process from east-to-west and head-to-hands postcolonial images to (re)produce hierarchy between the parties. While east–west mapping remained almost unchallengeable, the reversal, crossing and blurring of the Israel-to-Korea knowledge transfer direction provides a counter-narrative to resource complementarity discourse.Originality/valueThe resource complementarity discourse supported by east–west mapping and “head–hands” justifications for partner choice reveals the lingering presence of postcolonial images, imagery and imagination. By taking two nations without substantial troubled memories, histories and relations, the paper broadens the picture beyond national contexts, emphasizing the importance of borrowing and translation from postcolonial vocabulary to non-colonial situations.

目的本文旨在提出将伙伴选择政治化，通过强调经济、文化和制度差异来（重新）创造权力关系，从而使伙伴选择合理化、合法化和正当化。通过将合作伙伴选择重新定义为一种话语，本文挑战了根据国际商业和管理研究确立的合作伙伴选择观，即基于资源互补、最佳实践和双赢情况的理性和战略行为。设计/方法论/方法基于对以色列-韩国商业合作的纵向研究，包括深入采访、观察和媒体文本，本文使用批判性话语分析（CDA）来揭开伙伴选择既不是中立行为也不是客观行为的神秘面纱，以揭示其在权力关系中的话语建构和嵌入性。发现以色列-韩国商业合作双方的参与者唤起了“以色列创新”和“韩国生产力”之间的资源互补话语，以将他们的合作伙伴选择合理化为双赢局面。CDA展示了双方如何参与从东到西的“借用”过程，以及如何正面交锋后殖民图像，以（重新）产生政党之间的等级制度。尽管东西方地图绘制几乎是不可挑战的，但以色列到韩国知识转移方向的逆转、交叉和模糊为资源互补性话语提供了一种反叙事。独创性/价值由东西方地图和选择伴侣的“头-手”理由支持的资源互补话语揭示了后殖民图像、意象和想象力的挥之不去。本文以两个没有实质性麻烦记忆、历史和关系的国家为例，将画面扩展到国家背景之外，强调了从后殖民词汇到非殖民情况的借用和翻译的重要性。

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引用次数: 1

How far are we from understanding corruption? The effect of cultural distance on corruption perception 我们离理解腐败还有多远?文化距离对腐败感知的影响

IF 2 Q2 Business, Management and Accounting

Critical Perspectives on International Business

Pub Date : 2021-04-09 DOI: 10.1108/CPOIB-06-2020-0079

Mike Szymanski, Ivan Valdovinos, E. Kaltenecker

PurposeThis study aims to examine the relationship between cultural distances between countries and their scores in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), which is the most commonly used measure of corruption in international business (IB) research.Design/methodology/approachThe authors applied fixed-effect (generalized least squares) statistical modeling technique to analyze 1,580 year-country observations.FindingsThe authors found that the CPI score is determined to a large extent by cultural distances between countries, specifically the distance to the USA and to Denmark.Research limitations/implicationsCPI is often used as a sole measure of state-level corruption in IB research. The results show that the measure is significantly influenced by cultural differences and hence it should be applied with great caution, preferably augmented with other measures.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to look at cultural distances as determinants of CPI score. The authors empirically test whether the CPI is culturally biased.

目的本研究旨在检验国家之间的文化距离与其在腐败感知指数（CPI）中的得分之间的关系，CPI是国际商业研究中最常用的衡量腐败的指标。设计/方法论/方法作者应用固定效应（广义最小二乘）统计建模技术分析1580 年国别观察。研究结果作者发现，CPI得分在很大程度上是由国家之间的文化距离决定的，特别是与美国和丹麦的距离。研究局限性/含义CPI通常被用作IB研究中衡量州级腐败的唯一指标。结果表明，该措施受到文化差异的显著影响，因此应非常谨慎地应用，最好与其他措施相结合。原创性/价值据作者所知，这是第一项将文化距离视为CPI得分决定因素的研究。作者实证检验了CPI是否具有文化偏见。

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引用次数: 4

Reversal of language hierarchy and the politics of translation in a multinational corporation 语言等级制度的颠倒与跨国公司的翻译政治

IF 2 Q2 Business, Management and Accounting

Critical Perspectives on International Business

Pub Date : 2021-04-05 DOI: 10.1108/CPOIB-06-2020-0086

Jonna Ristolainen, Virpi Outila, R. Piekkari

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explain the reversal of language hierarchy in a Finnish multinational corporation (MNC) from a political perspective. This paper situated the language hierarchy in the historical context of the colonial-style relationship between Finland and Russia. From a post-colonial perspective, the colonial legacy of Russia has had an influence on language strategy and everyday translation work in the Finnish multinational until the present day.Design/methodology/approachThis paper undertook a case study based on qualitative secondary analysis of existing data sets. These data sets originated from two previously conducted studies of the same Finnish MNC.FindingsThe findings revealed a reversal of the traditional corporate language hierarchy. Russian, as the host country language of powerful local subsidiaries, rose to the top of the hierarchy at the expense of English, the common corporate language, and other languages. The colonial-style relationship was enacted by professional and paraprofessional translators who collaborated by using “the master’s language and imitating the master’s voice” to reap the strategic benefits of local responsiveness.Originality/valueIn contrast to previous work drawing on post-colonial theory in the study of MNCs, this paper represents the headquarters in Finland as the “colonised” party and the Russian subsidiaries as the “coloniser.” Owing to its colonial legacy, Russian, the host country language, became very powerful and influenced the language strategy of the entire MNC. This paper conceptualized translation as a multilevel phenomenon and offers a holistic explanation of why the language hierarchy in the Finnish MNC was reversed.

目的本文的目的是从政治角度解释芬兰跨国公司语言等级制度的逆转。本文将语言等级制度置于芬兰和俄罗斯殖民风格关系的历史背景下。从后殖民主义的角度来看，直到今天，俄罗斯的殖民遗产一直影响着芬兰跨国公司的语言策略和日常翻译工作。设计/方法论/方法本文在对现有数据集进行定性二次分析的基础上进行了案例研究。这些数据来源于之前对同一芬兰跨国公司进行的两项研究。芬丁研究结果揭示了传统企业语言等级制度的逆转。俄语作为强大的当地子公司的东道国语言，以英语（通用公司语言）和其他语言为代价，上升到了层级的顶端。殖民风格的关系是由专业和准专业翻译人员建立的，他们通过使用“大师的语言和模仿大师的声音”进行合作，从当地的反应中获得战略利益。独创性/价值与以往在跨国公司研究中借鉴后殖民理论的工作不同，本文将芬兰总部视为“被殖民”的一方，将俄罗斯子公司视为“殖民者”。由于其殖民遗产，东道国语言俄语变得非常强大，并影响了整个跨国公司的语言战略。本文将翻译概念化为一种多层次的现象，并对芬兰跨国公司的语言等级制度发生逆转的原因进行了全面的解释。

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引用次数: 3

From Ebola to COVID-19: what explains institutionalized manias and the ultimate preference for non-optimal solutions in global health governance? 从埃博拉到新冠肺炎：是什么解释了制度化的狂热和全球卫生治理中对非最佳解决方案的最终偏好？

IF 2 Q2 Business, Management and Accounting

Critical Perspectives on International Business

Pub Date : 2021-04-05 DOI: 10.1108/CPOIB-05-2020-0057

Frederick Ahen

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how “manias” in global health governance lead to health inequalities even before, during and in the aftermath of acute health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic “Manias” as used here refer to obsessive ir/rational behaviors, misguided policy/strategic choices and the exercise of power that benefit the major global health actors at the expense of stakeholders Design/methodology/approach: From post-colonial and historical perspectives, this study delineates how the major global health actors influence outcomes in global health governance and international business when they interact at the national–global level using an illustration from an emerging economy Findings: Power asymmetry in global health governance is constructed around the centralization of economic influence, medico-techno-scientific innovation and the geopolitical hegemony of a conglomerate of super-rich/powerful actors They cluster these powers and resources in the core region (industrialized economies) and use them to influence the periphery (developing economies) through international NGOs, hybrid organizations, MNCs and multilateral/bilateral agreements The power of actors to maintain manias lies in not only how they influence the periphery but also the consequences of the periphery’s “passivity” and “voluntary” renunciation of sovereignty in medical innovations and global health policies/politics Social implications: As a quintessential feature of manias, power asymmetry makes it harder for weaker actors to actually change the institutional conditions that produce structural inequalities in global health Originality/value: This timely and multidisciplinary study calls for a novel architecture of global health governance Thus, democratizing global health governance with sufficiently foresighted investments that prioritize equitable access by and the inclusiveness of vulnerable stakeholders will help dismantle institutionalized manias while decreasing health inequalities © 2021, Emerald Publishing Limited

目的：本文的目的是调查全球卫生治理中的“狂热”如何在新冠肺炎大流行等急性卫生危机之前、期间和之后导致健康不平等，误导性的政策/战略选择和以牺牲利益相关者为代价使全球主要卫生行为者受益的权力行使设计/方法/方法：从后殖民主义和历史的角度来看，本研究以一个新兴经济体为例，描述了全球主要卫生行为者在国家-全球层面互动时如何影响全球卫生治理和国际商业的结果，医学技术科学创新和超级富豪/强大行为者集团的地缘政治霸权他们将这些权力和资源聚集在核心地区（工业化经济体），并利用它们通过国际非政府组织、混合组织、，跨国公司和多边/双边协议行动者维持躁狂的力量不仅在于他们如何影响外围国家，还在于外围国家在医疗创新和全球卫生政策/政治中“被动”和“自愿”放弃主权的后果社会影响：作为躁狂的一个典型特征，权力不对称使较弱的行为者更难真正改变导致全球卫生结构性不平等的制度条件。原创性/价值：这项及时的多学科研究呼吁建立一种新的全球卫生治理架构。因此，通过足够前瞻性的投资实现全球卫生治理的民主化，优先考虑弱势利益相关者的公平获取和包容性，将有助于消除制度化的狂热，同时减少健康不平等©2021，Emerald Publishing Limited

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引用次数: 5

International relationships and resilience of New Zealand SME exporters during COVID-19 2019冠状病毒病期间新西兰中小企业出口商的国际关系和韧性

IF 2 Q2 Business, Management and Accounting

Critical Perspectives on International Business

Pub Date : 2021-03-08 DOI: 10.1108/cpoib-05-2020-0061

Benjamin Fath, Antje Fiedler, Noemi Sinkovics, Rudolf R. Sinkovics, Bridgette Sullivan-Taylor

Purpose

This paper aims to empirically investigate how small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have engaged with international network partners during COVID-19 and how the crisis has changed network relationships and resilience depending on pre-COVID relationship strength and, secondarily, on opportunity outlook in a market.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper draws on 14 qualitative interviews with managers of New Zealand SMEs from diverse industries and four with industry experts. Rather than generalization, the aim of this exploratory paper is to identify contingency factors, which, under duress, strengthen or break business relationships.

Findings

Four main patterns emerge from the data, with respect to how SMEs engaged with network partners depending on the nature of their prepandemic relationships and the extent to which their markets had been affected by the pandemic. During crisis, weak ties either break or remain weak, forcing firms to create new, potentially opportunistic, relationships. Strong ties increase resilience, even under a negative outlook, as network partners support each other, including through the development of new ties. Strong ties can also accelerate business model transformation.

Research limitations/implications

Future large-scale research is needed to test the generalizability of the authors’ findings.

Practical implications

The findings of this paper indicate lessons for business continuation management and future preparedness for major disruptions. Specific insights may help stimulate managerial action to accelerate contingency planning and policy to support SMEs.

Originality/value

This paper is an early study on how weak and strong ties influence SME resilience during crisis.

本文旨在实证调查中小企业(SMEs)在COVID-19期间如何与国际网络合作伙伴进行合作，以及危机如何根据COVID-19前的关系强度以及其次是市场机会前景改变网络关系和弹性。设计/方法/方法本文采用了对来自不同行业的新西兰中小企业经理的14次定性访谈和对行业专家的4次访谈。这篇探索性论文的目的不是泛化，而是确定在胁迫下加强或破坏业务关系的应急因素。关于中小企业如何根据其大流行病前关系的性质及其市场受大流行病影响的程度与网络伙伴进行接触，数据显示出四种主要模式。在危机期间，弱关系要么破裂，要么保持弱关系，迫使企业建立新的、潜在的机会主义关系。由于网络伙伴相互支持，包括通过发展新关系，牢固的联系可以增强韧性，即使在负面前景下也是如此。牢固的联系也能加速商业模式的转变。研究局限性/意义需要未来的大规模研究来检验作者研究结果的普遍性。实际意义本文的研究结果为业务延续管理和未来重大中断的准备提供了经验教训。具体的见解可能有助于激励管理层采取行动，加快应急计划和政策，以支持中小企业。独创性/价值本文是对弱纽带和强纽带如何影响中小企业危机应变能力的早期研究。

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引用次数: 0

Towards crisis protection(ism)? COVID-19 and selective de-globalization 走向危机保护(主义)?COVID-19和选择性去全球化

IF 2 Q2 Business, Management and Accounting

Critical Perspectives on International Business

Pub Date : 2021-03-04 DOI: 10.1108/CPOIB-05-2020-0046

L. Branicki, Bridgette Sullivan-Taylor, Stephen Brammer

Purpose: Drawing on Wendt’s (1995, 1999) thin constructivist approach to international relations this paper aims to critically examine how the measures taken by the Australian Government to protect the country from coronavirus (COVID-19) have prompted politicians and opinion-makers to mobilize globalizing and de-globalizing discourses towards divergent conceptualizations of national resilience Design/methodology/approach: The paper examines 172 Australian political and media articles, which focus on both COVID-19 and globalization/de-globalization published between February and June 2020 The data were imported to NVivo to enable in-depth thematic analysis Findings: The paper develops the concept of crisis protectionism to explain how COVID-19 has been mobilized in discourses aimed at accelerating selective de-globalization in Australia Selective de-globalization is inductively theorized as involving material structures (i e border closures), ideational structures (i e national identity) and intersubjectivities (i e pre-existing inter-country antagonisms) Research limitations/implications: The paper relies upon publicly available data about Australian discourses that relate to a unique globally disrupting extreme event Practical implications: Crisis protectionism and selective de-globalization are important to multinational enterprises (MNE) that operate in essential industry sectors (e g medical supply firms), rely upon open borders (e g the university sector) and for MNEs entering/operating in a host country experiencing antagonistic relationships with their home country Originality/value: The paper extends Witt’s (2019) political theorization of de-globalization towards a socialized theory of de-globalization By rejecting liberal and realist explanations of the relationship between COVID-19 and de-globalization, this study highlights the importance and endogeneity of non-market risks and non-economic logic to international business and MNE strategy © 2020, Emerald Publishing Limited

目的:利用Wendt(1999,1999)对国际关系的建构主义方法，本文旨在批判性地研究澳大利亚政府为保护国家免受冠状病毒(COVID-19)的侵害而采取的措施如何促使政治家和舆论制造者动员全球化和去全球化的话语，以实现国家复原力设计/方法/方法的不同概念:该论文研究了2020年2月至6月期间发表的172篇澳大利亚政治和媒体文章，重点关注COVID-19和全球化/去全球化。数据导入NVivo，以便进行深入的专题分析。本文发展了危机保护主义的概念，以解释COVID-19如何在旨在加速澳大利亚选择性去全球化的话语中被动员起来。选择性去全球化被归纳为涉及物质结构(如边境关闭)、观念结构(如国家认同)和主体间性(如预先存在的国家间对抗)。这篇论文依赖于澳大利亚的公开数据，这些数据与一个独特的全球破坏性极端事件有关。危机保护主义和选择性去全球化对于在重要工业部门(如医疗用品公司)经营、依赖开放边界(如大学部门)的跨国企业(MNE)以及进入/在东道国经营的与本国存在敌对关系的跨国企业(MNE)来说非常重要。本文将Witt(2019)的去全球化政治理论扩展到社会化的去全球化理论，通过拒绝对COVID-19与去全球化之间关系的自由主义和现实主义解释，本研究突出了非市场风险和非经济逻辑对国际商业和跨国公司战略的重要性和内生性©2020,Emerald Publishing Limited

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引用次数: 11

The Covid-19 pandemic: towards a societally engaged IB perspective 新冠肺炎大流行：面向社会参与的IB视角

IF 2 Q2 Business, Management and Accounting

Critical Perspectives on International Business

Pub Date : 2021-02-19 DOI: 10.1108/CPOIB-02-2021-0021

C. Dörrenbächer, R. Sinkovics, Florian A. A. Becker-Ritterspach, Mehdi Boussebaa, Louise Curran, A. Jonge, Zaheer Khan

Purpose This viewpoint takes up the Covid-19 pandemic as a trigger for a research agenda around societally engaged international business (IB) research Design/methodology/approach The paper is organized as a viewpoint First, it provides an overview of Covid-19 research in business and management and IB in particular Second, it introduces a societally engaged IB perspective, around poverty and human rights as well as trade Findings The paper offers an annotated introduction to the paper contributions of the special issue with three clusters, "re-reading the crisis", "crisis protectionism" and "firm strategies during the pandemic" Research limitations/implications The paper points to future research opportunities in terms of crisis management and societally engaged IB research Practical implications The Covid-19 crisis poses new questions for research on international business and its related disciplines In particular, the political, economic and societal disruption which the pandemic has caused highlights the importance of addressing broader societal issues such as climate change, poverty and inequality through a purposeful and forward-looking research agenda Originality/value The paper and the special issue are some of the first combined research outputs on the Covid-19 pandemic in international business

本观点将Covid-19大流行作为围绕社会参与国际商业(IB)研究设计/方法/方法的研究议程的触发器。本文组织为一个观点，首先，它概述了Covid-19在商业和管理方面的研究，特别是IB，其次，它介绍了社会参与国际商业的观点。这篇论文对特刊的论文贡献做了一个有注释的介绍，分为三个组:“重新阅读危机”;“危机保护主义”和“大流行期间的企业战略”研究局限/启示本文指出了未来在危机管理和社会参与IB研究方面的研究机会。新冠肺炎疫情对经济和社会造成的破坏凸显了通过有目的和前瞻性的研究议程解决气候变化、贫困和不平等等更广泛社会问题的重要性。该论文和特刊是国际商业中首批关于新冠肺炎疫情的联合研究成果

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引用次数: 11

Emerging social and business trends associated with the Covid-19 pandemic 与新冠肺炎大流行相关的新兴社会和商业趋势

IF 2 Q2 Business, Management and Accounting

Critical Perspectives on International Business

Pub Date : 2021-02-17 DOI: 10.1108/CPOIB-05-2020-0066

Hamideh Yeganeh

Purpose: This paper aims to identify, classify and study emerging social and business trends associated with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic Design/methodology/approach: By adopting the meta-synthesis method, the study scrutinizes, synthesizes and interprets the findings from a pool of publications This approach results in identifying 53 key ideas that are classified under nine dominant trends Findings: The study identifies and examines nine major trends caused and intensified by the Covid-19 pandemic, i e the rise of authoritarianism, the new era of corporate welfare, deep imbalances in public finances, exacerbated inequalities, higher risks of poverty and famine, the dominance of giant corporations, the increasing influence of big tech, the accelerated innovation and the fluidity of work and organizations The paper suggests that these trends are the continuation of the past three decades’ transformations, are contributing to the rising concentration of power and wealth and are leading to a new type of globalization marked by high connectivity and low tangibility Originality/value: The originality of this paper resides in adopting a multidisciplinary approach to analyzing various social and business dimensions of a complex phenomenon While the study should not be viewed as a comprehensive investigation, it offers a groundwork for further research on Covid-19 © 2021, Emerald Publishing Limited

目的：本文旨在识别、分类和研究与新冠肺炎大流行爆发相关的新兴社会和商业趋势设计/方法论/方法：通过采用元综合方法，综合并解释一系列出版物的研究结果。这种方法确定了53个关键想法，这些想法被归类为九个主要趋势。研究结果：该研究确定并审查了新冠肺炎大流行引起和加剧的九个主要趋势，即威权主义的兴起、企业福利的新时代、公共财政的严重失衡、，加剧的不平等、更高的贫困和饥荒风险、大公司的主导地位、大型科技日益增长的影响力、加速的创新以及工作和组织的流动性。论文认为，这些趋势是过去三十年转型的延续，导致了权力和财富的日益集中，并导致了一种以高连通性和低有形性为特征的新型全球化。原创性/价值：本文的独创性在于采用多学科的方法来分析复杂现象的各种社会和商业层面调查，它为进一步研究新冠肺炎提供了基础©2021，Emerald出版有限公司

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引用次数: 27

Internalising and internationalising country specific CSR practices of a Japanese multinational company 日本跨国公司针对具体国家的企业社会责任实践国际化

IF 2 Q2 Business, Management and Accounting

Critical Perspectives on International Business

Pub Date : 2021-02-15 DOI: 10.1108/CPOIB-02-2019-0013

C. Perera, C. Hewege

PurposeApplying mainstream, Western-centric corporate social responsibility (CSR) theory to make sense of CSR practices of multinational firms of non-Western origin seems to be problematic for CSR theory and practice. The purpose of this study is to critically analyse the CSR integration journey of a Japanese multinational firm with a view to understanding CSR integration in a global business context.Design/methodology/approachThis study used a qualitative research method using a single case study approach to investigate a contemporary phenomenon within its real-life context. A theoretical lens of seven patterns of CSR integration interwoven with Japanese and mainstream CSR discourses is used to make sense of internalisation and internationalisation process.FindingsMain findings are presented under four themes: product harm crisis as a call for CSR, CSR governance and bottom up initiatives, recycling oriented CSR and product designing, co-existing Japanese CSR in the global marketplace. An external misfit of a firm’s practice in the domestic market can lead to internalising country-specific CSR through CSR integration resulting in successful internationalisation of country-specific CSR practices.Research limitations/implicationsCountry-specific CSR integration follows context-specific routines and practices; this process can be shaped and reshaped by the prevailing international CSR discourse due to internationalisation of a firm’s operation.Originality/valueAlthough CSR is viewed as a fundamental strategic priority driving firms to focus on shared value-creating products and services, how best a firm can integrate CSR into an existing business model is unclear. This gap is addressed in this current study.

目的应用以西方为中心的主流企业社会责任理论来理解非西方跨国公司的企业社会责任实践似乎对企业社会责任的理论和实践存在问题。本研究的目的是批判性地分析一家日本跨国公司的企业社会责任整合历程，以期在全球商业背景下理解企业社会责任的整合。设计/方法论/方法本研究采用定性研究方法，采用单一案例研究方法，在现实生活中调查当代现象。将七种企业社会责任整合模式的理论视角与日本和主流企业社会责任话语交织在一起，来理解企业社会责任的内化和国际化过程。调查结果主要分为四个主题：产品危害危机对企业社会责任的呼吁、企业社会责任治理和自下而上的举措、以回收为导向的企业社会责任和产品设计、全球市场上共同存在的日本企业社会责任。企业在国内市场实践的外部不匹配可能导致通过企业社会责任整合将特定国家的企业社会责任内部化，从而成功实现特定国家企业社会责任实践的国际化。研究局限性/含义特定国家的企业社会责任整合遵循特定背景的惯例和实践；由于企业运营的国际化，这一过程可以被主流的国际企业社会责任话语所塑造和重塑。独创性/价值尽管企业社会责任被视为推动企业专注于共享价值创造产品和服务的基本战略优先事项，但企业如何最好地将企业社会责任融入现有的商业模式尚不清楚。这一差距在当前的研究中得到了解决。

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引用次数: 2

What shapes industrial relations in foreign affiliates? Comparative case study results from Germany 是什么塑造了外国子公司的劳资关系?德国案例对比研究结果

IF 2 Q2 Business, Management and Accounting

Critical Perspectives on International Business

Pub Date : 2021-02-11 DOI: 10.1108/CPOIB-07-2020-0090

C. Dörrenbächer, Heinz-Josef Tüselmann, Heinz-Rudolf Meissner, Q. Cao

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to develop an analytical framework to categorize the quality of industrial relations in foreign affiliates. Using the case of foreign affiliates in Germany, this paper further explores what factors shape the quality of industrial relations in foreign affiliates.Design/methodology/approachGiven the scarcity of research on industrial relations in foreign affiliates, this paper is based on conceptual work as well as on a comparative case investigation of 21 foreign affiliates in Germany, involving informants from both labor and management.FindingsIndustrial relations in foreign affiliates in Germany can take four different qualities, based on the following: social partnership; conflict partnership; latently adversarial; and adversarial relations. While previous literature focused on country-of-origin effects, the authors’ case-based investigation further revealed that both affiliate effects and multinational corporation (MNC) effects have a strong impact on the quality of industrial relations in foreign affiliates in Germany.Originality/valueThis paper provides systematic evidence on the presumption that micro-organizational and MNC-specific factors are necessary to gain a deeper understanding of industrial relations in MNCs. Moreover, this paper contributes to the discussion on the quality of industrial relations in foreign affiliates in Germany, by placing results from both single-case studies and management surveys into perspective.

目的本文的目的是建立一个分析框架来对外国子公司的劳资关系质量进行分类。本文以德国的外国子公司为例，进一步探讨了影响外国子公司劳资关系质量的因素。设计/方法论/方法鉴于对外国子公司劳资关系的研究很少，本文基于概念工作以及对德国21家外国子公司的比较案例调查，涉及劳工和管理层的线人。Findings在德国的外国子公司的劳资关系可以具有四种不同的品质，基于以下方面：社会伙伴关系；冲突伙伴关系；潜在的对抗性；以及敌对关系。虽然先前的文献集中于原籍国效应，作者基于案例的调查进一步表明，附属公司效应和跨国公司效应对德国外国附属公司的劳资关系质量都有很大影响跨国公司的劳资关系。此外，本文通过对单个案例研究和管理调查的结果进行透视，有助于讨论在德国的外国子公司的劳资关系质量。

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