{"title":"","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47937,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Management","volume":"31 4","pages":"Article 101259"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146727888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2024.101202
Julianne Sellin , Vaibhav Mishra
Contemporary events have challenged the idea of an inevitable rise in connectivity. Economic, geopolitical, and regulatory disruptions have led scholars and practitioners to consider the potential implications that a loss of global mobility and connectedness has on the potential for knowledge creation. Although key to this process, the notion of connectivity has seldom been studied along with disruptions. To fill in this gap, this paper intends to investigate the impact of an unprecedented regulatory shock - the 2016 United Kingdom European Union (EU) membership referendum - on UK-based inventor teams' knowledge connectivity. There is considerable literature documenting a negative relationship between the uncertainty generated by disruptions and innovation. We add a complementary and potentially ameliorating effect whereby disruptions increase knowledge connectivity. We review the evidence for the former and discuss potential mechanisms behind the latter. Relying on patent application data from 2009 to 2022, we observe an overall increase in connectivity for teams with at least one inventor based out of the UK after the referendum. Our analysis also suggests an internationalization of UK teams taking precedence over what may have been a more regional focus. We discuss the immediate, and potential long-term implications of this dynamic for UK innovation.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2024.101201
Qiuhao Xie , Pei Ma , Ying Gao , Shuibo Zhang
Further progress in coopetition research is currently impeded by three ongoing problems in the literature: (a) conceptual ambiguity surrounding the coopetition construct; (b) an insufficient understanding of contingency factors; and (c) a lack of consideration of the potential variations in coopetition structures. In the specific context of international strategic alliances (ISAs), these unresolved issues have increased confusion regarding coopetition–joint performance relationship. To address these interrelated issues, this study unpacks coopetition in the ISA context into coopetition intensity and coopetition balance, examines the contingent role of trust in coopetition–joint performance relationship, and provides a nuanced analysis of coopetition structures. Based on a sample of 172 ISAs, we find that both coopetition intensity and balance independently exert positive effects on ISA joint performance outcomes. Moreover, simultaneously high levels of coopetition intensity and balance yield synergistic benefits. The results of the moderating effects indicate that goodwill trust weakens the positive effect of coopetition balance on joint performance, while competence trust strengthens this positive effect. Compared to a horizontal structure, the moderating effects of trust on the relationship between coopetition balance and joint performance are stronger in a vertical structure. This study therefore provides novel results; specifically, it indicates how coopetition manifests and how parties in ISAs jointly benefit or suffer from coopetition activities, offering fresh insights into managing coopetition in ISAs.
{"title":"Unpacking coopetition in international strategic alliances: Dimensions, contingencies, and structures","authors":"Qiuhao Xie , Pei Ma , Ying Gao , Shuibo Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.intman.2024.101201","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intman.2024.101201","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Further progress in coopetition research is currently impeded by three ongoing problems in the literature: (a) conceptual ambiguity surrounding the coopetition construct; (b) an insufficient understanding of contingency factors; and (c) a lack of consideration of the potential variations in coopetition structures. In the specific context of international strategic alliances (ISAs), these unresolved issues have increased confusion regarding coopetition–joint performance relationship. To address these interrelated issues, this study unpacks coopetition in the ISA context into coopetition intensity and coopetition balance, examines the contingent role of trust in coopetition–joint performance relationship, and provides a nuanced analysis of coopetition structures. Based on a sample of 172 ISAs, we find that both coopetition intensity and balance independently exert positive effects on ISA joint performance outcomes. Moreover, simultaneously high levels of coopetition intensity and balance yield synergistic benefits. The results of the moderating effects indicate that goodwill trust weakens the positive effect of coopetition balance on joint performance, while competence trust strengthens this positive effect. Compared to a horizontal structure, the moderating effects of trust on the relationship between coopetition balance and joint performance are stronger in a vertical structure. This study therefore provides novel results; specifically, it indicates how coopetition manifests and how parties in ISAs jointly benefit or suffer from coopetition activities, offering fresh insights into managing coopetition in ISAs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47937,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Management","volume":"30 6","pages":"Article 101201"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143136117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2024.101205
Hamza Aib
This study examines how host country risk affects the stability of international joint ventures (IJVs). Besides, it examines the moderating impact of experience in the host country and age of the IJV on the association between country risk and IJV stability. We use transaction cost economics (TCE) to hypothesize a detrimental impact of host country risk and IJV stability. Additionally, we integrate TCE and knowledge-based theory (KBT) to develop the hypotheses suggesting that the negative association between country risk and IJV stability is moderated by experience in the IJV's host country and the age of the IJV. Using a dataset on 140 IJVs established between French and cross-border partners, and employing event history analysis to assess IJV stability over time, we find that host country risk has a detrimental impact on IJV stability. Furthermore, we find that the degree of experience possession in IJV's host country and the age of the IJV moderate the negative association between host country risk and IJV stability.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2024.101200
Samantha Macro , Ursula F. Ott
The transformation of transnational organizations coincides with the innovation ability and is based on the evolutionary changes in MNEs. The phenomenon of interest is investigated with a qualitative study through interviews with senior directors of a pharmaceutical MNE in both headquarters and subsidiaries supplemented with company data and information. A configurational analysis using fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) transfers the antecedent and outcome conditions into equifinal paths. The ability to innovate effectively is a function of the complexity of organization, complexity of science in light of local responsiveness. The findings contribute to enlarging the transnational theory regarding the ability to innovate effectively and the reconfiguration to a neomultidomestic archetype. The transnational organization with its evolutionary developments and re-configurations is the driver for worldwide innovation in an uncertain environment and with the challenges of new drug development a vehicle for innovation in the pharmaceutical industry. The study is important because it provides access to one of the leading pharmaceutical companies investigating its evolution and reconfiguration to adapt to new challenges in an ever-changing international business and scientific environment.
{"title":"The evolution of the ability to effectively innovate in a transnational organization – A configurational analysis","authors":"Samantha Macro , Ursula F. Ott","doi":"10.1016/j.intman.2024.101200","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intman.2024.101200","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The transformation of transnational organizations coincides with the innovation ability and is based on the evolutionary changes in MNEs. The phenomenon of interest is investigated with a qualitative study through interviews with senior directors of a pharmaceutical MNE in both headquarters and subsidiaries supplemented with company data and information. A configurational analysis using fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) transfers the antecedent and outcome conditions into equifinal paths. The ability to innovate effectively is a function of the complexity of organization, complexity of science in light of local responsiveness. The findings contribute to enlarging the transnational theory regarding the ability to innovate effectively and the reconfiguration to a neomultidomestic archetype. The transnational organization with its evolutionary developments and re-configurations is the driver for worldwide innovation in an uncertain environment and with the challenges of new drug development a vehicle for innovation in the pharmaceutical industry. The study is important because it provides access to one of the leading pharmaceutical companies investigating its evolution and reconfiguration to adapt to new challenges in an ever-changing international business and scientific environment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47937,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Management","volume":"30 6","pages":"Article 101200"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143136175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2024.101203
Sílvio Luís De Vasconcellos , Ronaldo Couto Parente , Andreas P.J. Schotter , Ivan Lapuente Garrido , Cláudio Reis Gonçalo
We investigate the role of organizational creativity as a microfoundation underlying international business competence (IBC) and its impact on international performance in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Based on recent studies emphasizing the importance of creativity as an antecedent of valuable capabilities, we develop a model showing how organizational creativity manifests itself in diverse nuances in the connection between individual and organizational levels. We test our model with data from SMEs using established scales for organizational creativity and IBC. Our results demonstrate the role of organizational creativity as a nuanced, significant driver for developing IBC and that fostering a creative organizational environment that facilitates transforming individual creativity into an organizational resource leads to superior international performance.
{"title":"Organizational creativity: A microfoundation of the international business competence and performance link","authors":"Sílvio Luís De Vasconcellos , Ronaldo Couto Parente , Andreas P.J. Schotter , Ivan Lapuente Garrido , Cláudio Reis Gonçalo","doi":"10.1016/j.intman.2024.101203","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intman.2024.101203","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We investigate the role of organizational creativity as a microfoundation underlying international business competence (IBC) and its impact on international performance in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Based on recent studies emphasizing the importance of creativity as an antecedent of valuable capabilities, we develop a model showing how organizational creativity manifests itself in diverse nuances in the connection between individual and organizational levels. We test our model with data from SMEs using established scales for organizational creativity and IBC. Our results demonstrate the role of organizational creativity as a nuanced, significant driver for developing IBC and that fostering a creative organizational environment that facilitates transforming individual creativity into an organizational resource leads to superior international performance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47937,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Management","volume":"30 6","pages":"Article 101203"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143136120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2024.101191
Yuanyuan Zhou, Peng Liu, Min Teng
We employ a supply and demand framework to integrate mainstream theoretical lenses and assess the heterogeneous roles of host and home country economies on MNEs' overseas CSR investment. Using a sample of the world's 100 largest non-financial MNEs from 2015 to 2018, as published by UNCTAD, we find that host country economic performance is positively associated with MNEs' CSR investment in host countries, and home country economic performance exhibits a U-shaped relationship with MNEs' CSR investment in host countries. By distinguishing CSR into do-good and do-no-harm CSR, we further find that host country economic performance positively affects both types of CSR investment. Home country economic performance has a U-shaped effect on do-good CSR investment, but it is negatively related to do-no-harm CSR investment. Our study provides a more generalized insight into the impact of host and home economies on MNEs' overseas operations, thereby enriching our understanding of CSR management by MNEs.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2024.101204
Yang Shen , Sophie Lythreatis , Sanjay Kumar Singh , Palie Smart
Knowledge is an important resource for the development of individuals and the successful operation of companies, yet knowledge hiding (KH) within organizations is universal. Based on the conservation of resources theory, this study investigates the relationship between self-serving leadership (SSL) and individual KH through a moderated mediation model of emotional exhaustion (EE) and thriving at work (TAW). Two-wave survey data is collected from employees working in MNEs operating in China. The results show that SSL positively affects individual KH, and that EE plays a mediating role in this process. TAW negatively moderates the effect of EE on KH, and further moderates the indirect effect of SSL on employees' KH behavior through EE. Implications for theory, practice and future research are also discussed. The novel process that links SSL and individual KH behavior enriches the leadership-KH literature. Linking EE and TAW to the leadership-KH relationship further extends the mechanisms and boundary conditions that may influence KH. The main practical suggestions are to optimize the human resource management strategy and establish a positive corporate atmosphere.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2024.101190
Wolfgang Messner , Monica Migliorini
Deciding how to allocate ad spending across media channels is a complex marketing choice that varies by country due to cultural and institutional factors. This descriptive study examines TV ad spending in 50 countries, finding higher TV budgets in economically underdeveloped, less internet-connected nations. Countries with greater uncertainty avoidance and power distance exhibit higher TV ad budgets, while those with more individualism and masculinity have lower TV ad spending. TV is favored in ethnically, linguistically, and religiously fractionalized and more religious countries. Understanding the local context while keeping a global view is crucial for an effective marketing strategy.
{"title":"Fifty Shades of Ads. The Influence of Cultural and Institutional Factors on Television Advertisement Expenditure","authors":"Wolfgang Messner , Monica Migliorini","doi":"10.1016/j.intman.2024.101190","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.intman.2024.101190","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Deciding how to allocate ad spending across media channels is a complex marketing choice that varies by country due to cultural and institutional factors. This descriptive study examines TV ad spending in 50 countries, finding higher TV budgets in economically underdeveloped, less internet-connected nations. Countries with greater uncertainty avoidance and power distance exhibit higher TV ad budgets, while those with more individualism and masculinity have lower TV ad spending. TV is favored in ethnically, linguistically, and religiously fractionalized and more religious countries. Understanding the local context while keeping a global view is crucial for an effective marketing strategy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47937,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Management","volume":"30 6","pages":"Article 101190"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143136173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-13DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2024.101189
Samuel Adomako , Oded Shenkar , Xiaohui Liu , Joseph Amankwah-Amoah , Mujtaba Ahsan
This editorial delves into the evolving context of doing business in Africa, tracing its journey from being dubbed the “hopeless continent” to becoming a beacon of hope and opportunity. Drawing on a wealth of scholarly research, it highlights Africa's increasing attractiveness for global investments, underscored by rising FDI inflows and the emergence of a vibrant middle class. Despite these promising trends, the editorial also sheds light on the persistent challenges, including institutional fragility and political instability, coupled with limited representation in the existing international business discourse. We advance a more nuanced understanding of Africa's business environment, emphasizing the need for responsible growth, improved governance, and sustainable development. Thus, the Special Issue offers insights into the complexities and challenges of doing business in Africa, as well as the paradoxes and potential for fostering competitiveness and inclusive growth on the global stage.
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