Knowledge management has a pivotal role in innovation processes and on firms’ competitiveness. In order to generate innovations, firms may access knowledge from different sources, including their internal and external environments. However, to fully assimilate such knowledge and apply it to commercial ends, firms need absorptive capacity (AC). AC is particularly important for multinational corporations (MNCs), as they face several learning challenges arising from increased global competition as well as geographic, institutional, and cultural differences. With this in mind, my dissertation explores the relationship between knowledge management mechanisms and innovation and performance outcomes as well as the enabling role of absorptive capacity in such relationships. The findings show that MNC managers can use different mechanisms for souring, transferring, and applying knowledge, which increase the firm´s ability to absorb knowledge and, in turn, lead to product and/or process innovation.
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William Newburry, M. Raskovic, Saba S. Colakoglu, M. Gonzalez‐Perez, D. Minbaeva
Calls to address diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) have become common around the globe. This AIB Insights special issue examines dimensions and challenges associated with DEI in an international business environment. The introductory editorial to the issue first discusses some major challenges associated with implementing DEI in multinational organizations, including the multi-level factors influencing DEI policy adoption. It then overviews the issue’s seven articles and one practitioner interview, which address broader DEI issues such as refugees and migration and the influence of the institutional environment, as well as specific DEI dimensions related to gender, differently abledness and LGBT+ inclusion.
{"title":"Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in International Business: Dimensions and Challenges","authors":"William Newburry, M. Raskovic, Saba S. Colakoglu, M. Gonzalez‐Perez, D. Minbaeva","doi":"10.46697/001c.36582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46697/001c.36582","url":null,"abstract":"Calls to address diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) have become common around the globe. This AIB Insights special issue examines dimensions and challenges associated with DEI in an international business environment. The introductory editorial to the issue first discusses some major challenges associated with implementing DEI in multinational organizations, including the multi-level factors influencing DEI policy adoption. It then overviews the issue’s seven articles and one practitioner interview, which address broader DEI issues such as refugees and migration and the influence of the institutional environment, as well as specific DEI dimensions related to gender, differently abledness and LGBT+ inclusion.","PeriodicalId":93253,"journal":{"name":"AIB insights","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89289115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Encouraging entrepreneurship is an effective way to empower women. While most nations have policies empowering women, are these policies effective in encouraging female entrepreneurship? Additionally, is there a gap between policy enactment and enforcement that hinders entrepreneurship? In this short article, we start a conversation by examining cross-country differences in female entrepreneurship and relating them to existing social, educational, and workplace policies. Further, we suggest a novel measure of enforcement that effectively captures the divergence between stated policies and successful reduction of discriminatory practices on the ground, providing us a tool to isolate cheap talk from effective policy intervention.
{"title":"Transcending Cheap Talk in Female Entrepreneurship: Cross-Country Evidence","authors":"Suparna Chakraborty, R. C. Chopra","doi":"10.46697/001c.36137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46697/001c.36137","url":null,"abstract":"Encouraging entrepreneurship is an effective way to empower women. While most nations have policies empowering women, are these policies effective in encouraging female entrepreneurship? Additionally, is there a gap between policy enactment and enforcement that hinders entrepreneurship? In this short article, we start a conversation by examining cross-country differences in female entrepreneurship and relating them to existing social, educational, and workplace policies. Further, we suggest a novel measure of enforcement that effectively captures the divergence between stated policies and successful reduction of discriminatory practices on the ground, providing us a tool to isolate cheap talk from effective policy intervention.","PeriodicalId":93253,"journal":{"name":"AIB insights","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89714925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
As long as business is done, there also has to be a business case for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), says Ram Sinha from the Pride Circle. When it comes to DEI activities, the often invisible nature of the LGBT+ community, its smaller size (relative to other minorities) and vast heterogeneity, as well as lack of standardization of basic terminology, make building bridges between MNEs and the community quite challenging. In this interview with one of Asia’s leading social enterprises in the LGBT+ space, Ram shares his vast experience in the rapidly evolving DEI landscape. He also provides actionable insights for IB scholars, practitioners, educators and policymakers on MNE operations in an emerging market which is quickly becoming a hotbed of DEI innovation.
Pride Circle的拉姆•辛哈(Ram Sinha)表示，只要有了生意，就必须有多元化、公平和包容(DEI)的商业理由。当涉及到DEI活动时，LGBT+社区通常是隐形的，其规模较小(相对于其他少数民族)，巨大的异质性，以及缺乏标准化的基本术语，使得在跨国公司和社区之间建立桥梁非常具有挑战性。在这次对亚洲LGBT+领域领先的社会企业之一的采访中，Ram分享了他在快速发展的DEI领域的丰富经验。他还为IB学者、从业者、教育工作者和政策制定者提供了关于跨国公司在新兴市场运营的可行见解，而新兴市场正迅速成为DEI创新的温床。
{"title":"Building Bridges Between (Global) Business and the Rainbow Community in India: An Interview with Pride Circle’s Co-founder Ramkrishna Sinha","authors":"M. Raskovic, Ramkrishna (Ram) Sinha","doi":"10.46697/001c.36260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46697/001c.36260","url":null,"abstract":"As long as business is done, there also has to be a business case for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), says Ram Sinha from the Pride Circle. When it comes to DEI activities, the often invisible nature of the LGBT+ community, its smaller size (relative to other minorities) and vast heterogeneity, as well as lack of standardization of basic terminology, make building bridges between MNEs and the community quite challenging. In this interview with one of Asia’s leading social enterprises in the LGBT+ space, Ram shares his vast experience in the rapidly evolving DEI landscape. He also provides actionable insights for IB scholars, practitioners, educators and policymakers on MNE operations in an emerging market which is quickly becoming a hotbed of DEI innovation.","PeriodicalId":93253,"journal":{"name":"AIB insights","volume":"442 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85736206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The racial, ethnic and other compositions of modern societies have fundamentally changed in the last few decades as a consequence of mass migration. Migration has generated superdiversity. This paper attempts to illuminate the area ‘Migration and Diversity’ through a discussion of migration that reviews and incorporates various lenses of diversity. We shed light on managerial and policy areas that need attention to enhance firms’ competitiveness and the social cohesion of migrants that are treated as ‘aliens’ as they transition across borders. We seek to alert readers to the urgency and salience of migrant superdiversity as an emergent topic, especially from an equity and inclusion lens.
{"title":"Born as a Citizen and Reborn as an Alien: Migrant Superdiversity in Global Business","authors":"T. Kothari, Maria Elo, Nila Wiese","doi":"10.46697/001c.35243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46697/001c.35243","url":null,"abstract":"The racial, ethnic and other compositions of modern societies have fundamentally changed in the last few decades as a consequence of mass migration. Migration has generated superdiversity. This paper attempts to illuminate the area ‘Migration and Diversity’ through a discussion of migration that reviews and incorporates various lenses of diversity. We shed light on managerial and policy areas that need attention to enhance firms’ competitiveness and the social cohesion of migrants that are treated as ‘aliens’ as they transition across borders. We seek to alert readers to the urgency and salience of migrant superdiversity as an emergent topic, especially from an equity and inclusion lens.","PeriodicalId":93253,"journal":{"name":"AIB insights","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86666663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Institutional Distance versus Intra-Country Differences: Capturing and Leveraging the Diversity Within","authors":"Susan E. Perkins","doi":"10.46697/001c.33937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46697/001c.33937","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93253,"journal":{"name":"AIB insights","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90614747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Response to Economic Shocks: An Organizational Fit Perspective","authors":"N. Lahiri","doi":"10.46697/001c.34625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46697/001c.34625","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93253,"journal":{"name":"AIB insights","volume":"44 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72583450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diversity in Global Mining: Where We Are and What We Need to Do","authors":"Visalakshy Sasikala, V. Sankaranarayanan","doi":"10.46697/001c.33781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46697/001c.33781","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93253,"journal":{"name":"AIB insights","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80069027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Dau, S. Beugelsdijk, M. T. Fleury, Kendall Roth, Srilata Zaheer
{"title":"What Makes International Business Unique and Important as a Field? The Three Cs of IB","authors":"L. Dau, S. Beugelsdijk, M. T. Fleury, Kendall Roth, Srilata Zaheer","doi":"10.46697/001c.33698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46697/001c.33698","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93253,"journal":{"name":"AIB insights","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81662591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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