Global Strategy

The relative value of firm and nonprofit experience

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Monitoring Global Supply Chains

Firms reliant on supply chains to manufacture their goods risk reputational harm if the working conditions in those factories are revealed to be dangerous, illegal, or otherwise problematic. While firms…

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Avoid, acquiesce or engage? How to manage corruption abroad

Multinational firms face challenges in host countries where corruption is common, due to concerns that they will need to engage in corrupt acts in order to survive. Some respond by…

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Christian Stadler on Product & International Diversification

We establish prior diversification experience as a key determinant of the relationship between growth of product and international diversification. Prior diversification experience allows firms to overcome short-run constraints on simultaneous…

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Biranu, Gambardella, & Valentini on Bribery and Investment

We ask whether, along with ethical issues, bribing affects the behavior and performance of firms in A frica and L atin A merica. Our statistical analysis shows that bribe payments…

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Location matters: Valuing firmspecific nonmarket risk…global mining industry

We argue that mines located near environmentally sensitive water sources are subject to nonmarket risks arising from the potential collective actions of local stakeholders and their allies. Stakeholder mobilization can…

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Stefano Elia with Federico Caniato, Davide Luzzine, & Lucia Piscitello

This article deals with the performance implications of the governance mode (captive offshoring versus outsourcing) selected when companies offshore service activities, which is still quite controversial in the literature. After…

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Complexity Offering Opportunity: Mutual Learning Between ZGH and Volvo in Post-Acquisition Process

A key finding is that ZGH doesnotunderstand complexity only as a risk that should be coped with, managed and controlled—following the western idea of risk management—but also as an opportunity…

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When do latecomer firms undertake international open innovation?

Little is known about when do latecomer firms undertake IOI. This study uses a national survey data set of manufacturing firms in China, examining how the characteristics of firms and…

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Are scores on Hofstede’s dimensions of national culture stable over time?

Hofstede’s framework, which is based on survey data collected in the late 1960s and early 1970s, dominates quantitative culture research in international strategic management. However, as countries develop economically, modernization…

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