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Resilience of GVC suppliers in politically unstable regions: The roles of governance and trust 政治不稳定地区全球价值链供应商的弹性：治理和信任的作用

IF 6.1 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

International Business Review

Pub Date : 2025-06-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2025.102465

Umair Shafi Choksy , Yusuf Kurt , Ismail Gölgeci , Zaheer Khan , Saqib Shamim , Maaha Jawad

Supplier firms in the Global South face compounded risks from political instability that challenge their ability to maintain participation in global value chains (GVCs). While resilience is increasingly acknowledged as a critical capability, it remains unclear how suppliers develop resilience when conventional GVC governance strategies, often grounded in institutional stability, prove insufficient. This gap is especially pronounced in knowledge-intensive service sectors like software development, where codification, coordination, and inter-firm trust are central but often disrupted by political instability. This study examines the resilience of GVC suppliers operating in politically unstable regions of South Asia, particularly India and Pakistan. It focuses on the role of governance mechanisms—such as codification, managing complexity, and supplier capabilities, on supplier resilience. It also investigates how trust moderates these relationships. Drawing on Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) and the Dynamic Capabilities View (DCV), we argue that these governance mechanisms function not only as efficiency enablers but also as dynamic governance adaptations that suppliers actively mobilize to survive and adapt. A quantitative analysis using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was conducted on survey data collected from 100 software firms. The results show that task codification and management of task complexity enhance supplier resilience. It further reveals that trust negatively affects the links between task codification and resilience, challenging the conventional assumption that trust uniformly strengthens GVC relationships. The core theoretical contribution of this study lies in extending TCE and DCV by showing how resilience is enabled through external governance adaptation and by rethinking trust as a conditional, context-dependent mechanism rather than a universal good.

全球南方的供应商公司面临着来自政治不稳定的复杂风险，这挑战了他们保持参与全球价值链（GVCs）的能力。虽然弹性越来越被认为是一种关键能力，但当传统的全球价值链治理策略（通常以制度稳定性为基础）被证明不足时，供应商如何发展弹性仍不清楚。这种差距在软件开发等知识密集型服务行业尤为明显，在这些行业，规范、协调和公司间信任是核心，但往往受到政治不稳定的干扰。本研究考察了在南亚政治不稳定地区，特别是印度和巴基斯坦经营的全球价值链供应商的复原力。它侧重于治理机制的作用——例如编纂、管理复杂性和供应商能力，以及供应商弹性。它还研究了信任如何调节这些关系。利用交易成本经济学（TCE）和动态能力观（DCV），我们认为这些治理机制不仅作为效率的推动者，而且作为供应商积极动员以生存和适应的动态治理适应。采用偏最小二乘结构方程模型（PLS-SEM）对100家软件企业的调查数据进行了定量分析。研究结果表明，任务规范化和任务复杂性管理可以增强供应商的弹性。研究进一步表明，信任对任务编码和弹性之间的联系产生负向影响，挑战了信任统一加强全球价值链关系的传统假设。本研究的核心理论贡献在于扩展了TCE和DCV，展示了弹性是如何通过外部治理适应而实现的，并将信任重新思考为一种有条件的、依赖于情境的机制，而不是一种普遍利益。

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The myths of successful expatriation: Does higher emotional intelligence lead to better cultural intelligence? 成功移居海外的神话：高情商会带来更好的文化智商吗？

IF 5.9 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

International Business Review

Pub Date : 2025-06-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2025.102464

Yuran Li , Ying Zhang , Shanshi Liu

Why superior ability sometimes leads to expatriation failure? Multinational corporations are facing the selection dilemma that expatriates are equipped with the strongest capability, but they still underperform. To address the puzzle, we explored the nonlinear relationship between emotional intelligence and cultural intelligence, and further examined its effects on expatriation outcomes. Drawing from cognitive-appraisal theory, results from a two-wave survey of 405 expatriates revealed an inverted U-shaped relationship between emotional intelligence and motivational cultural intelligence, and a positive relationship between emotional intelligence and behavioral cultural intelligence. Specifically, high levels of emotional intelligence can exert a detrimental effect on the development of motivational cultural intelligence, while facilitating behavioral cultural intelligence. These effects further impact expatriation outcomes. In addition, perceived cultural distance is found to moderate these relationships. The findings challenge the conventional assumption that cross-cultural ability is positively and linearly related to performance. This study contributes to the expatriation literature by unveiling the intriguing myth: the strongest ability does not always equate to the best fit. These insights offer valuable guidance for multinational corporations in expatriate selection and management practices.

为什么出众的能力有时会导致外派失败？跨国公司正面临着外派人员能力最强，但却表现不佳的选择困境。为了解决这个难题，我们探讨了情绪智力和文化智力之间的非线性关系，并进一步研究了其对外派结果的影响。根据认知-评价理论，对405名外籍人士的两波调查结果表明，情绪智力与动机文化智力呈倒u型关系，情绪智力与行为文化智力呈正相关关系。具体来说，高水平的情绪智力会对动机文化智力的发展产生不利影响，而促进行为文化智力的发展。这些影响进一步影响了外派结果。此外，感知到的文化距离也会调节这些关系。研究结果挑战了传统的假设，即跨文化能力与绩效呈正线性关系。这项研究揭示了一个有趣的神话：最强的能力并不总是等同于最适合的。这些见解为跨国公司选择和管理外派人员提供了有价值的指导。

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Cross-border E-commerce, platform economy, and export product quality 跨境电商、平台经济、出口产品质量

IF 5.9 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

International Business Review

Pub Date : 2025-06-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2025.102466

Fei Wang , Yanping Zhou

This study examines how manufacturing enterprises leverage the network effects of cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) platforms to engage in real-time interactions with customers to obtain in-depth demand information and transform customers into active participants in product value cocreation. We explore the establishment of enterprise–customer value cocreation systems that subsequently enhance export product quality. Collecting registration data from 160,000 enterprises across China’s three major business-to-business CBEC platforms and matching them with microlevel enterprise data from Chinese Customs and the China Industrial Enterprise Database spanning 2000–2015, we empirically examine the impact of participation in CBEC platforms on Chinese manufacturing firms’ export product quality and the underlying mechanisms. The findings reveal that CBEC platform engagement significantly improves Chinese manufacturing enterprises’ export product quality. Mechanism analysis indicates that the network effects of these platforms enhance firms’ innovation capabilities, facilitate export product transformation, and improve transaction matching efficiency, elevating product quality. These positive effects vary depending on trade type, firm size, regional digital infrastructure, and platform characteristics. Specifically, enterprises with lower export technology complexity, multiproduct portfolios, those engaged in general trade, and those located in regions with advanced digital infrastructure or participating in medium-to-large platforms exhibit more pronounced export quality improvement through CBEC. Furthermore, export product quality is more significantly enhanced as firms strengthen capabilities by using these platforms. These findings have substantial theoretical implications for research on cross-border digital platforms and manufacturing enterprises’ internationalization. They also provide robust empirical support for firms implementing digital export strategies to achieve “brand globalization.”

本研究探讨制造业企业如何利用跨境电子商务平台的网络效应，与客户进行实时互动，获取深度需求信息，并将客户转化为产品价值共同创造的积极参与者。我们探索建立企业-客户价值共创体系，从而提高出口产品质量。我们收集了中国三大CBEC平台16万家企业的注册数据，并将其与中国海关和中国工业企业数据库2000-2015年间的微观企业数据进行匹配，实证检验了参与CBEC平台对中国制造业企业出口产品质量的影响及其潜在机制。研究发现，CBEC平台参与显著提高了中国制造业企业的出口产品质量。机制分析表明，这些平台的网络效应增强了企业的创新能力，促进了出口产品转型，提高了交易匹配效率，提升了产品质量。这些积极影响因贸易类型、企业规模、区域数字基础设施和平台特征而异。具体而言，出口技术复杂度较低、产品组合多、从事一般贸易的企业、位于数字基础设施先进地区或参与大中型平台的企业通过CBEC出口质量提升更为明显。此外，企业利用这些平台增强能力，对出口产品质量的提升也更为显著。这些发现对跨境数字平台与制造企业国际化的研究具有重要的理论意义。它们还为企业实施数字出口战略以实现“品牌全球化”提供了强有力的实证支持。

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Unfair competition and export intensity of Latin American SMEs: The role of regulations 拉美中小企业不公平竞争与出口强度：法规的作用

IF 5.9 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

International Business Review

Pub Date : 2025-05-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2025.102463

Sebastian Aparicio , Jorge Lengler , Roberta Aguzzoli , Carlos M.P. Sousa , Gabriel R.G. Benito , David Urbano

Latin American countries exhibit significant levels of informal economic activity and a low degree of trade openness. Yet, little is known about the effect of these institutional characteristics on the performance of SMEs when venturing abroad to explore international markets. Based on an institutional voids approach, we explore the effects of unfair competition, particularly related to informality, on export intensity of SMEs conditioned by tariffs, trade regulations, and taxes in Latin America. Multilevel modeling is applied to a sample of 5781 Latin American firms. We hypothesize and find that SMEs increase their exports when they compete against informal firms. Higher tariffs and trade regulations reinforce such unfair competition and thus the decision to focus on international markets.

拉丁美洲国家表现出大量的非正式经济活动和低程度的贸易开放。然而，这些制度特征对中小企业在海外开拓国际市场时绩效的影响却知之甚少。基于制度空白方法，我们探讨了不公平竞争，特别是与非正式性相关的不公平竞争对拉丁美洲受关税、贸易法规和税收限制的中小企业出口强度的影响。多层模型应用于5781家拉丁美洲公司的样本。我们假设并发现中小企业在与非正规企业竞争时增加了出口。更高的关税和贸易法规加剧了这种不公平竞争，从而加剧了将重点放在国际市场上的决定。

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Consequences of geographic separation of partners during expatriation: The moderating effects of trust and virtual communication 外派期间合作伙伴地理分离的后果：信任和虚拟沟通的调节作用

IF 5.9 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

International Business Review

Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2025.102459

R.A.I.C. Karunarathne , Anna Katharina Bader , Fabian Jintae Froese , Margaret A. Shaffer

Geographic separation from the partner is a reality for many expatriates, yet little is known about its effects on expatriates and their partners. Drawing on attachment theory, we develop a theoretical model linking the effects of geographic separation to expatriates’ repatriation intentions and eventual repatriation and reunion with their partners via an increase in depressive symptoms of both expatriates and their partners. Moreover, we propose that dyadic trust and the frequency of virtual communication between expatriates and partners buffer the negative effects of geographic separation on the depressive symptoms and repatriation. Results from a multi-wave dyadic survey of 132 expatriates and their partners provide strong support for our theoretical model. Findings from a follow-up interview study with 20 expatriates and partners offer additional insights into the underlying reasons and mechanisms of separation, depression and repatriation. We discuss important implications for theory and practice.

对于许多外派人员来说，与合作伙伴的地理位置分离是一个现实，但人们对其对外派人员及其合作伙伴的影响知之甚少。根据依恋理论，我们建立了一个理论模型，将地理分离的影响与外派人员的遣返意图联系起来，并通过增加外派人员及其伴侣的抑郁症状最终遣返并与他们的伴侣团聚。此外，我们提出，外派人员与合作伙伴之间的二元信任和虚拟交流频率可以缓冲地理分离对抑郁症状和遣返的负面影响。对132名外派人员及其伴侣的多波二元调查结果为我们的理论模型提供了强有力的支持。对20名外派人员及其合作伙伴的后续访谈研究的结果为分离、抑郁和遣返的潜在原因和机制提供了更多的见解。我们讨论了理论和实践的重要意义。

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Beyond the "eye of the storm": A processual and multi-layered approach to global value chain resilience 超越“风暴眼”：全球价值链弹性的流程和多层方法

IF 6.1 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

International Business Review

Pub Date : 2025-05-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2025.102460

Federica Sacco , Giovanna Magnani , Pietro Previtali

Repeated shocks to business continuity, such as extreme natural events, a global pandemic, geopolitical tensions, trade wars and actual wars, have challenged and are challenging multinational enterprises in their role as “orchestrators” within global value chains (GVCs). Consequently, interest in GVC resilience has grown in the field of international business. This study investigates how control and location decisions in GVCs can contribute to the resilience of the overall value chain. To answer this question, we develop a multiple case study in the context of the pharmaceutical and medical-device sectors, and propose a theoretical model of GVC resilience that untangles the mechanisms that help multinational enterprises and their value chains withstand shocks.

极端自然事件、全球大流行病、地缘政治紧张局势、贸易战和实际战争等对业务连续性的反复冲击，已经并正在挑战跨国企业在全球价值链（gvc）中的“协调者”角色。因此，在国际商业领域，对全球价值链弹性的兴趣有所增长。本研究探讨了全球价值链中的控制和选址决策如何对整个价值链的弹性做出贡献。为了回答这个问题，我们在制药和医疗器械行业的背景下进行了多个案例研究，并提出了一个全球价值链弹性的理论模型，该模型理清了帮助跨国企业及其价值链抵御冲击的机制。

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The effects of manager market human capital on learning from international failures in small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) 管理者市场人力资本对中小企业国际经验借鉴的影响

IF 5.9 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

International Business Review

Pub Date : 2025-05-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2025.102461

Xinchun Wang , Annie Peng Cui , Liguo Liu , Lin Zhao

Small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have increasingly used internationalization to grow their businesses, yet many international adventures fail. While organizational learning can help them better understand foreign market dynamics and thus improve future international performance, previous studies have primarily focused on learning from successful experiences. To provide more insights, this study examines whether and how SME managers’ market human capital can help them recognize the value of seeking feedback through learning from international failures, facilitating learning from those failed experiences. This study also argues that the environmental context, both in the home and the foreign markets, further influences how managers’ market human capital benefits an SME’s learning from international failures. Using both primary and secondary data, this study finds that market human capital can bring firms more benefits when the firm is faced with greater cultural distance in the foreign market or when the firm can benefit from a highly innovative climate in the home market.

中小型企业（SMEs）越来越多地利用国际化来发展业务，但许多国际冒险都失败了。虽然组织学习可以帮助他们更好地了解国外市场动态，从而提高未来的国际绩效，但以前的研究主要集中在学习成功的经验上。为了提供更多的见解，本研究考察了中小企业管理者的市场人力资本是否以及如何帮助他们认识到通过学习国际失败经验来寻求反馈的价值，从而促进从这些失败经验中学习。本研究还认为，无论是国内市场还是国外市场的环境背景，都会进一步影响管理者的市场人力资本如何有利于中小企业从国际失败中学习。本研究结合一手数据和第二手数据发现，当企业在国外市场面临较大的文化距离时，或者当企业在国内市场可以从高度创新的氛围中获益时，市场人力资本可以为企业带来更多的利益。

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Fragmentation in international business: A geographic-and-political perspective 国际商业的碎片化：一个地理和政治的视角

IF 5.9 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

International Business Review

Pub Date : 2025-05-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2025.102458

Victor Cui , Xiaocong Tian , Rongjian Yu

Marking the twentieth anniversary of Rugman and Verbeke’s (2004) seminal work on regionalization, Verbeke et al. (2025) critically examine how geopolitical tensions, such as those between the U.S. and China, are reshaping regionalization and the global economic order. Extending this study, we argue that while the traditional regionalization perspective emphasizes geographic proximity as the primary driver of global economic fragmentation, recent geopolitical disruptions indicate that these fractures are increasingly aligning with political fault lines among nations. We develop a Geographic-and-Political (GAP) framework, juxtaposing geographic distance with political divergence between nation-states. We propose that political distance modifies the traditional relationship between geographic proximity and regionalization, creating varied effects in both intra-regional and inter-regional business activities. The regionalization effect is more likely to persist or even strengthen when geographic and political distances align, but may weaken or fail otherwise. This framework extends and operationalizes the perspectives in Verbeke et al. (2025), highlighting a new paradigm of fragmentation and opening up new research directions for the literature on regionalization and MNEs’ multipolar geo-strategies.

为了纪念Rugman和Verbeke（2004）关于区域化的开创性工作20周年，Verbeke等人（2025）批判性地研究了地缘政治紧张局势（如美国和中国之间的紧张局势）如何重塑区域化和全球经济秩序。在此基础上，我们认为，虽然传统的区域化观点强调地理邻近是全球经济碎片化的主要驱动因素，但最近的地缘政治破坏表明，这些裂缝越来越多地与国家之间的政治断层线一致。我们开发了一个地理与政治（GAP）框架，将民族国家之间的地理距离与政治分歧并置。我们认为，政治距离改变了地理邻近与区域化之间的传统关系，在区域内和区域间的商业活动中产生了不同的影响。当地理和政治距离一致时，区域化效应更有可能持续甚至加强，但在其他情况下可能减弱或失效。该框架扩展并可操作Verbeke等人（2025）的观点，突出了碎片化的新范式，并为区域化和跨国公司多极地缘战略的文献开辟了新的研究方向。

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Institutional quality and investment disputes in emerging and frontier economies 新兴和前沿经济体的制度质量和投资纠纷

IF 6.1 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

International Business Review

Pub Date : 2025-05-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2025.102462

Ricardo E. Buitrago R.

This study examines the relationship between institutional quality and investor-state disputes in emerging and frontier economies. Analyzing data from 40 countries for 2008–2020 using a fixed-effects negative binomial regression model, I investigate how different dimensions of institutional quality affect the occurrence of investment disputes. The results reveal a complex pattern: Stronger regulatory quality, rule of law, legal efficiency, and expropriation risk protection are associated with fewer disputes, whereas stronger property rights protection and more international investment agreements are associated with increased dispute frequency. Robustness checks suggest a more complex relationship with property rights than was initially found. These findings collectively indicate that institutional development transforms rather than simply reducing investment risk, as stronger institutions simultaneously attract investment while providing clearer grounds for legal action and raising investor expectations. These findings contribute to institutional theory and have implications for policymakers seeking to balance institutional development with dispute risk management in emerging and frontier economies.

本研究考察了新兴经济体和前沿经济体的制度质量与投资者-国家争端之间的关系。利用固定效应负二项回归模型分析了40个国家2008-2020年的数据，研究了制度质量的不同维度如何影响投资纠纷的发生。结果揭示了一个复杂的模式：更强的监管质量、法治、法律效率和征收风险保护与纠纷减少有关，而更强的产权保护和更多的国际投资协定与纠纷频率增加有关。鲁棒性检验表明，与最初发现的情况相比，中国与产权的关系更为复杂。这些研究结果共同表明，制度发展改变了而不仅仅是降低了投资风险，因为更强大的制度在吸引投资的同时，为法律行动提供了更明确的依据，并提高了投资者的期望。这些发现有助于制度理论，并对寻求平衡新兴和前沿经济体的制度发展与争议风险管理的政策制定者具有启示意义。

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Turning decision-making logic into international performance among SMEs: Revealing the importance of international entrepreneurial marketing 中小企业决策逻辑转化为国际绩效：揭示国际创业营销的重要性

IF 5.9 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

International Business Review

Pub Date : 2025-05-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2025.102457

Man Yang , Peter Gabrielsson , Mika Gabrielsson , Seppo Pynnönen

The international business field lacks research on how decision-making logics lead to SMEs’ international performance and what mechanisms are involved. This study examines the relationship between decision-making logics (effectuation and causation) and international performance of SMEs and contributes by highlighting the crucial role of international entrepreneurial marketing. We used structural equation partial least squares in the empirical study with a cross-country sample of 489 internationalizing SMEs from China, Finland, and New Zealand. The results reveal that international entrepreneurial marketing fully mediates the positive effectuation–performance relationship and the mediation effect is stronger among SMEs from developing markets and offering services. We show that international entrepreneurial marketing partially mediates the positive causation–performance relationship and the mediation effect is stronger among SMEs from developed markets and among those that offer products.

国际商务领域缺乏对决策逻辑如何导致中小企业国际绩效及其机制的研究。本研究考察了决策逻辑（效果和因果关系）与中小企业国际绩效之间的关系，并通过突出国际创业营销的关键作用做出了贡献。本文采用结构方程偏最小二乘法对来自中国、芬兰和新西兰的489家国际化中小企业进行了实证研究。结果表明，国际创业营销充分中介了效应与绩效的正相关关系，并且在发展中市场和服务型中小企业中中介作用更强。研究发现，国际创业营销部分中介了企业绩效与企业发展的正向因果关系，且中介效应在发达市场中小企业和提供产品的中小企业中更强。

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