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Money laundering as a transnational business phenomenon: a systematic review and future agenda 洗钱作为一种跨国商业现象:系统回顾与未来议程

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Critical Perspectives on International Business

Pub Date : 2022-10-14 DOI: 10.1108/cpoib-10-2021-0088

E. Isolauri, Irfan Ameer

PurposeMoney laundering continues to emerge as a transnational phenomenon that has harmful consequences for the global economy and society. Despite the theoretical and practical magnitude of money laundering, international business (IB) research on the topic is scarce and scattered across multiple disciplines. Accordingly, this study aims to advance an integrated understanding of money laundering from the IB perspective.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conduct a systematic review of relevant literature and qualitatively analyze the content of 57 studies published on the topic during the past two decades.FindingsThe authors identify five streams (5Cs) of research on money laundering in the IB context: the concept, characteristics, causes, consequences and controls. The analysis further indicates six theoretical approaches used in the past research. Notably, normative standards and business and economics theories are dominant in the extant research.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors review the literature on an under-researched but practically significant phenomenon and found potential for advancing its theoretical foundations. Hence, the authors propose a 5Cs framework and a future agenda for research and practice by introducing 21 future research questions and two plausible theories to help study the phenomenon more effectively in the future.Practical implicationsIn practical terms, the study extends the understanding of the money laundering phenomenon and subsequently helps mitigating the problem of money laundering in the IB environment, along with its harmful economic and societal impacts.Originality/valueThe authors offer an integrative view on money laundering in the IB context. Additionally, the authors emphasize wider discussions on money laundering as a form of mega-corruption.

洗钱作为一种跨国现象继续出现，对全球经济和社会造成有害后果。尽管洗钱的理论和实践规模巨大，但国际商业(IB)对该主题的研究很少，而且分散在多个学科中。因此，本研究旨在从IB视角推进对洗钱的综合认识。设计/方法/方法作者对相关文献进行了系统的回顾，并对过去二十年来发表的关于该主题的57项研究进行了定性分析。作者确定了IB背景下洗钱研究的五个流(5c):概念、特征、原因、后果和控制。分析进一步指出了过去研究中使用的六种理论方法。值得注意的是，规范标准和商业经济学理论在现有研究中占主导地位。研究局限/启示作者回顾了研究不足但具有现实意义的现象的文献，并发现了推进其理论基础的潜力。因此，作者提出了一个5c框架和未来的研究和实践议程，通过引入21个未来的研究问题和两个似是而非的理论来帮助未来更有效地研究这一现象。实际上，该研究扩展了对洗钱现象的理解，并有助于减轻IB环境中的洗钱问题，以及其有害的经济和社会影响。原创性/价值作者对IB背景下的洗钱问题提供了一个综合的观点。此外，作者强调将洗钱作为一种巨大腐败形式进行更广泛的讨论。

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引用次数: 5

International business research on “emerging economies”: a critical review and recommendations 关于“新兴经济体”的国际商业研究：一项重要的审查和建议

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Critical Perspectives on International Business

Pub Date : 2022-10-05 DOI: 10.1108/cpoib-11-2021-0100

Dana L. Ott, Snejina Michailova, A. Earl, S. H. Ang

PurposeOver the past few decades, examinations of emerging economies (EEs) have received increasing attention in international business (IB) research. This article takes a critical stance on some of the re-occurring shortcomings of that research.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a critical literature review of 493 articles on EEs that have been published in five top-tier IB academic journals in the period 2010–2020. True to the nature of a critical literature review, the authors judge and question some of the practices that have impeded knowledge accumulation.FindingsThe authors found a recurring lack of definitional clarity and contextualization, as well as overgeneralized inferences from findings. The authors provide recommendations on how to address these weaknesses and a checklist to guide future IB research on EEs.Originality/valueThe authors question and problematize what they see as dominant but undesirable practices when conducting EE research. The actionable directions for addressing uncovered issues and checklist to guide future research in this area that the authors offer are rather bold and unambiguous.

目的在过去的几十年里，新兴经济体的考试在国际商业研究中越来越受到关注。本文对该研究中再次出现的一些缺点持批评态度。设计/方法论/方法作者对2010-2020年期间发表在五家顶级IB学术期刊上的493篇关于EEs的文章进行了批判性文献综述。与批判性文献综述的性质一样，作者对阻碍知识积累的一些做法进行了判断和质疑。研究结果作者发现，定义的清晰度和语境的缺乏，以及对研究结果的过度概括推断。作者就如何解决这些弱点提出了建议，并提供了一份清单，以指导IB未来对EE的研究。Originality/value作者在进行EE研究时，对他们认为占主导地位但不受欢迎的做法提出了质疑。作者提供的解决未发现问题的可行方向和指导该领域未来研究的清单相当大胆和明确。

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引用次数: 2

Towards a successful learning process of companies from developing countries involved in offshore outsourcing: proposal for an integrative analytical framework 发展中国家公司参与离岸外包的成功学习过程:关于综合分析框架的建议

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Critical Perspectives on International Business

Pub Date : 2022-10-05 DOI: 10.1108/cpoib-07-2021-0059

Amoin Bernadine N’Dri, Zhan Su

PurposeThis paper aims to contribute to international business research by providing an integrative framework of the factors determining the learning process of outsourcing companies in developing countries.Design/methodology/approachA systematic review of the literature was performed with an analysis of 84 articles published in peer-reviewed academic journals, published between 2000 and 2020.FindingsThe results show that the different factors should be seen as complementary and not mutually exclusive. It is the interaction between macro and micro factors that jointly shape the learning of developing country subcontractors. Moreover, the results of the analysis show that many existing studies have not been based on specific theoretical frameworks.Research limitations/implicationsThis study develops a roadmap of the current state of research on the determinants of learning among developing country subcontractors and offers suggestions to guide future research. The authors conclude with a call for methodological advancement and theory development on the topic.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study proposes the first comprehensive review of the literature on the factors determining the learning of subcontractors in developing countries. The authors have tried to provide an integrative analytical framework to discuss what has been known and what needs to be known in this regard.

本文旨在通过提供一个决定发展中国家外包公司学习过程因素的综合框架，为国际商业研究做出贡献。设计/方法/方法对2000年至2020年间发表在同行评议学术期刊上的84篇文章进行了系统的文献综述分析。结果表明，不同的因素应该是互补的，而不是相互排斥的。宏观和微观因素的相互作用共同塑造了发展中国家分包商的学习。此外，分析结果表明，许多现有的研究并没有基于具体的理论框架。研究局限/启示本研究为发展中国家分包商学习决定因素的研究现状制定了路线图，并为指导未来的研究提供了建议。最后，作者呼吁对这一主题进行方法上的改进和理论上的发展。原创性/价值据作者所知，本研究首次对有关发展中国家分包商学习决定因素的文献进行了全面回顾。作者试图提供一个综合的分析框架来讨论在这方面已经知道的和需要知道的。

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引用次数: 0

Time to call time on emerging markets: a critique and a new agenda 是时候给新兴市场叫停了:一份批评和一份新议程

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Critical Perspectives on International Business

Pub Date : 2022-07-20 DOI: 10.1108/cpoib-12-2021-0108

Yusaf H. Akbar

PurposeFirst developed in the 1980s, one of the most essential ideas in international business research has the been the concept of emerging markets. Since the start of the twenty-first century, empirical research has shown that there is no clear correlation between long-term real growth in gross domestic product and real equity returns in firms active in emerging markets. The purpose of this paper is to develop an explanation for both the pervasiveness and endurance of the emerging market discourse despite empirical evidence that substantially questions its very robustness.Design/methodology/approachThe author offers a “weak form” critique of the emerging market discourse that identifies weaknesses and gaps in the emerging market concept and offers suggestions on how to modify it without fundamentally rejecting its conceptual and ideological core. This paper also offers a “strong form” critique of emerging markets as a discourse arguing that the discourse itself is actually propagated to maintain and reinforce global economic inequality and should, therefore, be fundamentally transformed.FindingsBased on the strong form critique of emerging markets discourse, this paper shows how a three-phase process allows emerging market discourse to engender strategic and public policy practice. Scholars and educators play a pivotal role through their writing and discursive interactions with students and executives in their classroom. The centrality of scholars and educators is supported by the broader media ecosystem as well as being reinforced by interactions between executives and policymakers.Practical implicationsThis paper makes the case that international business scholars and educators should play a leading role in fundamentally transforming the emerging market discourse and to launch a renewed critical, inter-subjective discussion of dependency and global inequality through three mechanisms: peer-review research; course syllabi and programs; and public intellectualism.Originality/valueThrough critical discourse analysis, this paper addresses for the first time how emerging markets as a concept has prospered in academic and managerial circles despite credible empirical evidence of its lack of robustness.

国际商业研究中最重要的概念之一是新兴市场的概念，这一概念最早出现在20世纪80年代。自21世纪初以来，实证研究表明，活跃在新兴市场的企业，国内生产总值(gdp)的长期实际增长与实际股权回报之间没有明显的相关性。本文的目的是对新兴市场话语的普遍性和持久性进行解释，尽管经验证据实质上质疑其稳健性。作者对新兴市场话语进行了“弱形式”的批判，指出了新兴市场概念中的弱点和差距，并就如何在不从根本上拒绝其概念和意识形态核心的情况下对其进行修改提出了建议。本文还对新兴市场作为一种话语提出了“强有力的形式”批评，认为这种话语本身实际上是为了维持和加强全球经济不平等而传播的，因此应该从根本上进行转变。基于对新兴市场话语的强烈形式批判，本文展示了一个三阶段过程如何使新兴市场话语产生战略和公共政策实践。学者和教育工作者通过他们的写作和与学生和管理人员在课堂上的话语互动发挥了关键作用。学者和教育者的中心地位得到了更广泛的媒体生态系统的支持，并通过高管和政策制定者之间的互动得到加强。本文认为，国际商业学者和教育工作者应该在从根本上改变新兴市场话语方面发挥主导作用，并通过以下三种机制，发起一场关于依赖性和全球不平等的新的批判性、主体间的讨论:同行评议研究;课程大纲和计划;以及公共理智主义。原创性/价值通过批判性话语分析，本文首次阐述了新兴市场作为一个概念是如何在学术界和管理界蓬勃发展的，尽管有可靠的经验证据表明它缺乏稳健性。

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引用次数: 2

Patterns of inconsistency: a literature review of empirical studies on the multinationality–performance relationship 不一致模式：跨国绩效关系实证研究的文献综述

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Critical Perspectives on International Business

Pub Date : 2022-07-08 DOI: 10.1108/cpoib-06-2021-0051

A. Schmuck, K. Lagerström, James E. Sallis

PurposeThis study aims to understand the performance implications of when a business internationalizes. Many managers take the performance implications of internationalization for granted. Whether seeking a broader customer base or cost reduction through cross-border outsourcing, the overwhelming belief is that internationalization leads to higher profits.Design/methodology/approachThis paper offers a systematic review, content analysis and cross-tabulation analysis of 115 empirical studies from over 40 major journals in management, strategy and international business between 1977 and 2021. Focusing on research settings, sample characteristics, underlying theoretical approaches, measurements of key variables and moderators influencing the multinationality and performance relationship, this study offers a detailed account of definitions and effects.FindingsThe findings of this study suggest a tenuous connection between internationalization and performance. No strain of research literature conclusively identifies a consistent direct path from internationalization to performance. The context specificity of the relationship makes general declarations impossible.Research limitations/implicationsFuture researchers should recognize that internationalization is a process taking different forms, with no specific dominant form. General declarations are misleading. The focus should be on the process of internationalization rather than on the outcome.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the international business literature by exploring reasons for the inconsistent results and lack of consensus. Through a detailed account of definitions and effects, this paper explores the lack of consensus as well as the identified shapes of the relationship.

目的本研究旨在了解企业国际化对绩效的影响。许多管理者认为国际化对业绩的影响是理所当然的。无论是寻求更广泛的客户群，还是通过跨境外包降低成本，人们普遍认为国际化会带来更高的利润。设计/方法论/方法本文对1977年至2021年间来自管理、战略和国际商业领域40多家主要期刊的115项实证研究进行了系统综述、内容分析和交叉列表分析。本研究重点关注研究环境、样本特征、基本理论方法、关键变量的测量以及影响跨国性和绩效关系的调节因素，详细介绍了定义和影响。研究结果这项研究的结果表明，国际化与绩效之间存在着微妙的联系。没有任何一种研究文献能够最终确定从国际化到绩效的一致直接路径。这种关系的上下文特殊性使得一般性声明成为不可能。研究局限性/含义未来的研究人员应该认识到，国际化是一个采取不同形式的过程，没有特定的主导形式。一般的声明具有误导性。重点应该放在国际化进程上，而不是放在结果上。独创性/价值本研究通过探索结果不一致和缺乏共识的原因，为国际商业文献做出了贡献。通过对定义和效果的详细说明，本文探讨了缺乏共识以及确定的关系形式。

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引用次数: 4

The Third Space, mimics and ambivalence of HRM in the Global South: a postcolonial reading 第三空间，模仿和矛盾的人力资源管理在全球南方:一个后殖民的阅读

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Critical Perspectives on International Business

Pub Date : 2022-06-29 DOI: 10.1108/cpoib-03-2021-0033

D. Jayawardena

PurposeThis paper aims to accomplish two purposes: firstly, it revisits the “positional identity” – the ambivalent-hybrid disposition – of human resource management (HRM) in the (postcolonial) Global South. Secondly, it seeks to reframe the role of Southern agents of the epistemic community of HRM, particularly human resource (HR) managers, in managing people in the South.Design/methodology/approachThis paper takes inspiration from the postcolonial theory of Homi Bhabha, his notions of hybridity, the Third Space and colonial positionality, to revisit the positional identity of HRM and to reframe the role of HR managers in the South.FindingsIn postcolonial Southern organisations, HR managers play a dual role – as “mimics” and “bastards” of Western discourses of HRM. The dual role tends to put the managers in Southern organisations in a “double–bind”.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper helps in the understanding of the role of HRM as well as HR managers in Southern organisations regarding the (post-)colonial legacy of the South.Originality/valueThis paper provides new insights into the identity of HRM in the Global South beyond the dualistic understanding of HR practices, such as convergence–divergence and the mere form of crossvergence. It argues that hybridisation of HRM in Southern organisations takes place in the form of (post-)colonial hybridity.

本文旨在实现两个目的:首先，它重新审视了(后殖民)全球南方国家人力资源管理(HRM)的“位置认同”——矛盾-混合配置。其次，它试图重新构建南方人力资源管理认知社区的角色，特别是人力资源(HR)经理，在管理南方人员方面。设计/方法/方法本文从Homi Bhabha的后殖民理论，他的混合，第三空间和殖民定位的概念中获得灵感，重新审视人力资源管理的位置认同，并重新构建南方人力资源经理的角色。在后殖民时期的南方组织中，人力资源经理扮演着双重角色——西方人力资源管理话语的“模仿者”和“私生子”。这种双重角色往往使南方组织的管理者陷入“双重束缚”。本文有助于理解人力资源管理以及人力资源经理在南方组织中关于南方(后)殖民遗产的作用。原创性/价值本文提供了新的见解，超越了对人力资源实践的二元理解，如趋同-分歧和纯粹的交叉形式。它认为人力资源管理的混合在南方组织发生在(后)殖民混合的形式。

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Natural resources and national productivity in Africa: are there differences in high and low globalized economies? 非洲的自然资源和国家生产力：全球化经济的高低是否存在差异？

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Critical Perspectives on International Business

Pub Date : 2022-06-23 DOI: 10.1108/cpoib-12-2021-0103

Solomon Nborkan Nakouwo, Daniel Ofori‐Sasu, B. Kusi

PurposeThis paper aims to examine the effect of natural resources on the national productivity of high and low globalized economies in Africa.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses two-step generalized method of moments dynamic panel data of 30 African economies between 2006 and 2016 to achieve the purpose of the study.FindingsThe results suggest that natural resources promote productivity within African economies regardless of the level of globalization. However, while natural resources have an overall enhancing effect on national productivity in both high and low globalized economies, the enhancing effect varies according to the forms of globalization. The findings of this study suggest that globalization can alter the nexus between natural resources and national productivity in Africa. The results imply that African Governments and their related policymakers can rely on globalization to promote the effect of natural resources on productivity of African economies.Practical implicationsThis result is good and welcoming news, especially when natural resources in Africa have been described by prior studies as a curse to the continent. While globalization can be a tool for policymakers in Africa to deploy the positive effect of natural resources on national productivity, they might as well be careful as to which form of globalization they pursue, given that different forms and different levels or extent (high or low) of globalization yields different results on the nexus between natural resources and national productivity.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first of its kind to examine how natural resources affect national productivity in high and low globalized economies, especially in Africa.

目的本文旨在检验自然资源对非洲高全球化经济体和低全球化经济体国民生产力的影响。设计/方法/方法本研究使用了2006年至2016年间30个非洲经济体的两步广义矩动态面板数据来实现研究目的。研究结果表明，无论全球化程度如何，自然资源都能促进非洲经济体的生产力。然而，尽管在全球化程度高的经济体和全球化程度低的经济体中，自然资源对国民生产力都有总体的提高作用，但提高作用因全球化的形式而异。这项研究的结果表明，全球化可以改变非洲自然资源与国家生产力之间的关系。研究结果表明，非洲各国政府及其相关政策制定者可以依靠全球化来促进自然资源对非洲经济生产力的影响。实际意义这一结果是一个好消息，尤其是当先前的研究将非洲的自然资源描述为对非洲大陆的诅咒时。虽然全球化可以成为非洲决策者利用自然资源对国家生产力产生积极影响的工具，但鉴于不同形式、不同水平或程度（高或低）的全球化在自然资源与国家生产力之间的关系上产生了不同的结果，他们不妨谨慎选择哪种形式的全球化。原创性/价值据作者所知，这项研究是第一项研究自然资源如何影响全球化程度高和低的经济体，特别是非洲的国家生产力的研究。

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Working toward the sustainable development goals in earnest – critical international business perspectives on designing and implementing better interventions 认真地朝着可持续发展目标努力——设计和实施更好的干预措施的关键国际商业视角

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Critical Perspectives on International Business

Pub Date : 2022-06-14 DOI: 10.1108/cpoib-05-2022-0059

Noemi Sinkovics, L. Vieira, R. van Tulder

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to reflect on the importance of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) framework as a milestone for concerted efforts to tackle the underlying grand challenges.Design/methodology/approachThis viewpoint is predominantly conceptual in nature. However, this study adapts the University of Auckland's SDG key words to broadly map existing international business research in each SDG category across nine journals.FindingsThe SDG framework offers a positive and inclusive way forward to integrate social and environmental with economic aspects in the field of international business.Originality/valueThe inclusive nature of the SDG framework may achieve what previous labels such as social value creation and corporate social responsibility could not. It offers a path where integrating social and environmental with economic perspectives does not need to threaten the identity of the field. The SDG mapping exercise across nine selected journals clearly demonstrates that mainstream, economically focused research can continue to make valuable contributions to the SDGs as long as the discipline allows more room for integrators.

本研究的目的是反思可持续发展目标(SDG)框架作为共同努力应对潜在重大挑战的里程碑的重要性。设计/方法/方法这个观点本质上主要是概念性的。然而，这项研究采用了奥克兰大学的可持续发展目标关键词，在9种期刊上广泛地绘制了每个可持续发展目标类别的现有国际商业研究。可持续发展目标框架为国际商业领域的社会、环境和经济方面的整合提供了积极和包容的方式。独创性/价值可持续发展目标框架的包容性可以实现以前的标签，如社会价值创造和企业社会责任无法实现的目标。它提供了一条将社会和环境与经济观点相结合的道路，而不需要威胁到该领域的身份。在选定的9种期刊上进行的可持续发展目标映射工作清楚地表明，只要该学科为整合者提供更多空间，以经济为重点的主流研究可以继续为可持续发展目标做出有价值的贡献。

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Declining industries in emerging economies and firms’ strategies 新兴经济体中衰落的产业和企业的战略

IF 2 Q3 BUSINESS

Critical Perspectives on International Business

Pub Date : 2022-05-26 DOI: 10.1108/cpoib-01-2021-0015

Hao Tan

Purpose

International business (IB) and strategy research in the context of emerging economies (EEs) has focused traditionally on the strategies of firms in and from those markets to seize opportunities arising from their economic growth. This paper aims to demonstrate that declining industries in EEs are an important but overlooked research context for critical IB scholarship and to illuminate special considerations for strategising under those conditions.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper provides an overview of declining industries in EEs and includes an illustration of a sample of such industries in major EEs. This paper then critically reviews research on firms’ strategies in declining industries and extends that critical discussion to the EE context.

Findings

Firstly, this paper provides evidence relating to declines in industries in EEs. Secondly, this paper identifies three major strategies that firms use in response to an industry decline and critically discusses those strategies’ manifestations and special considerations in the context of EEs.

Social implications

Industry decline in EEs and the resultant responses of multi-national enterprises and local firms, such as business exit, market competition and firm diversification strategies, cause significant social challenges. This paper calls for further research on the phenomenon, especially regarding its distinctive ramifications compared with those in the context of developed countries.

Originality/value

This paper contributes to the critical IB scholarship by questioning the assumptions around high economic growth in individual EE industries and by challenging a universalistic approach that applies findings grounded in declining industries in developed countries to the distinctive context of EEs. This paper also provides forward-looking expositions concerning industry decline in EEs.

目的:新兴经济体背景下的国际商业(IB)和战略研究传统上关注的是这些市场中的公司和来自这些市场的公司抓住经济增长带来的机遇的战略。本文旨在证明，对于关键的IB奖学金来说，ee的衰落产业是一个重要但被忽视的研究背景，并阐明在这些条件下制定战略的特殊考虑。设计/方法学/方法本文概述了经济环境中衰落的行业，并举例说明了主要经济环境中这些行业的样本。然后，本文批判性地回顾了衰落行业中企业战略的研究，并将批判性讨论扩展到EE背景下。研究发现:首先，本文提供了与环境污染地区产业衰退相关的证据。其次，本文确定了企业在应对行业衰退时使用的三种主要策略，并批判性地讨论了这些策略的表现形式和在EEs背景下的特殊考虑。社会影响跨国企业和本土企业在企业退出、市场竞争和企业多元化战略等方面的行业衰退带来了重大的社会挑战。本文呼吁对这一现象进行进一步的研究，特别是与发达国家的情况相比，其独特的后果。原创性/价值本文通过质疑围绕各个EE行业的高经济增长的假设，并通过挑战将基于发达国家衰落行业的发现应用于EE独特背景的普遍方法，为关键的IB奖学金做出了贡献。本文还对机电一体化产业的衰落进行了前瞻性的论述。

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Multinational orchestration: a meta-theoretical approach toward competitive advantage 跨国编排：一种获取竞争优势的元理论方法

IF 2 Q3 BUSINESS

Critical Perspectives on International Business

Pub Date : 2022-05-24 DOI: 10.1108/cpoib-11-2021-0090

Vaneet Kaur

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to critically evaluate the canonical contribution of the classical theories of multinational enterprises (MNE) and complement them with congruous multi-theoretical lenses to a propose a meta-theoretical view for competitive advantage. The proposed framework is applied to fundamental questions of MNE, and exploratory insights are revealed.Design/methodology/approachThis study sought to review the literature on various paradigms such as resource-based view, knowledge-based view, attention-based view, relational view, dynamic capability view and institution-based view to propose a meta-theoretical approach explicating the phenomenon of competitiveness.FindingsThis study proffers that the key to global competitiveness lies in building micro-foundational, multidimensional and multilevel multinational orchestration capabilities. The requisite orchestration capabilities are capabilities par excellence that explain: how organizational capabilities originate through the cognition of individual employees at the micro level; how individual-level abilities are amplified when they are harnessed through relational capabilities to form knowledge capabilities at the meso-level; and how the confluence of knowledge capabilities and higher order dynamic capabilities gives rise to heterogeneous firm-level knowledge-based dynamic capabilities that can be combined with institution capabilities to aggrandize the prediction of competitive advantage for MNEs.Originality/valueThe successful development of MNE competitiveness as a field of academic inquiry, brought about by an increasing amount of theoretical specialization, has come at the price of significant fragmentation of the overall scientific quest. The abovementioned paradigms and their underlying constructs have primarily been conceptualized in silos. The classical theories of MNE have been used a starting point to which complementary multidisciplinary views have been scaffolded to gain a more nuanced understanding of global competitiveness.

本研究的目的是批判性地评价跨国企业经典理论的规范贡献，并以一致的多理论视角对其进行补充，以提出竞争优势的元理论观点。提出的框架应用于跨国公司的基本问题，并揭示了探索性的见解。本研究通过对资源基础观、知识基础观、注意基础观、关系观、动态能力观和制度基础观等理论范式的回顾，提出了一种解释竞争力现象的元理论方法。研究结果表明，企业全球竞争力的关键在于构建微观基础、多维度和多层次的跨国协调能力。必要的编排能力是卓越的能力，它解释了:组织能力是如何通过个体员工在微观层面的认知而产生的;当个人能力通过关系能力形成中观层面的知识能力时，如何被放大;知识能力和高阶动态能力的融合如何产生异质的企业层面基于知识的动态能力，这种动态能力可以与制度能力相结合，从而扩大对跨国公司竞争优势的预测。随着越来越多的理论专业化，跨国公司竞争力作为一个学术研究领域的成功发展，是以整体科学探索的显著分裂为代价的。上面提到的范例和它们的底层构造主要是在筒仓中概念化的。跨国公司的经典理论已被用作一个起点，在这个起点上，互补的多学科观点已被搭建起来，以获得对全球竞争力更细致入微的理解。

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