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Alfiyatul Qomariyah, Phuoc-Thien Nguyen, Wann-Yih Wu, Vinh-Long Tran-Chi
Summary: This study empirically investigated the influence of expatriates' personality and cross-cultural competence on social capital, cross-cultural adjustment, and performance. It integrated three perspectives to explain expatriate success and failure.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Yu Xie, Francis Boadu, Zhen Chen, Adwoa Serwaa Ofori
Summary: This paper adopts the resource-based view theory to investigate the relationship among knowledge transfer, human resource management practices, training and development, and subsidiary innovation performance. The findings show that knowledge transfer, human resource management practices, and training and development types significantly impact subsidiary innovation performance.
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(2022)
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Business
Quyen Nguyen
Summary: The study examines the relationships between subsidiary-specific advantage in financial management, host country specific advantages, and export intensity of MNE foreign subsidiaries. It emphasizes the importance of exporting to the overall strategy of foreign subsidiaries and its contribution to trade balance and economic development in host countries.
MANAGEMENT DECISION
(2022)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Angela Shin-Yih Chen, Trung Kim Nguyen, Hui-Wen Yang, Ya-Hsuan Lin
Summary: This study examines the mediation mechanism of psychological availability in the associations between cultural intelligence (CQ) with work engagement and job satisfaction, along with the moderated mediation effect of job autonomy. Data from 546 Taiwanese expatriates were analyzed using SPSS macro-PROCESS models. The results show that psychological availability positively mediates the relationship between CQ and both work engagement and job satisfaction. Additionally, job autonomy helps expatriates utilize CQ more effectively through psychological availability to enhance work engagement and job satisfaction.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Management
Sylva Zakova Talpova
Summary: This article examines the relationship between the number and type of regional headquarters (RHQs) in a MNE organizational structure and the subsidiary decision-making autonomy using a sample of 335 subsidiaries in a CEE country. The results indicate that the presence of multiple RHQs in the structure does not necessarily lead to higher centralization, but rather shows an inverted U-shaped relationship. Additionally, companies choose different areas for centralization within different structures.
JOURNAL OF EAST EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT STUDIES
(2023)
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Management
Xiaoming Yang, Sunny Li Sun, Fuming Jiang
Summary: This study explores the relationship between headquarters and subsidiaries in the context of EMNEs, with a focus on trust as a mediator and communication effectiveness as a moderator. The findings suggest that effective communication positively impacts the trust between headquarters and subsidiaries, ultimately affecting subsidiary initiatives. The developed model offers a solution to the integration-local responsiveness paradox.
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
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Business
Madeleine Bausch, Christoph Barmeyer, Ulrike Mayrhofer
Summary: The transfer of management practices in multinational companies, especially in emerging markets, has been discussed. The study highlights the importance of mutual learning and the emergence of a hybrid organizational culture in facilitating the transfer.
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS REVIEW
(2022)
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Industrial Relations & Labor
Iris S. Y. Chen
Summary: In response to increasing global uncertainty, multinational enterprises are utilizing downsizing and lateral collaboration to maintain profitability. The study examines how subsidiary role change, team alignment, and employee engagement impact lateral collaboration. Findings indicate that employee engagement plays a central role in driving effective lateral collaboration, highlighting the importance of subsidiary role in boundary-spanning activities and team collaboration for enhanced performance and people development.
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Management
Mandi E, Qiyuan Zhang, Kevin Zheng Zhou, Chuang Zhang
Summary: This study examines the relationship between interfirm trust and subsidiary performance of Chinese multinational enterprises (MNEs) in overseas markets. The results show that interfirm trust is positively associated with subsidiary performance, especially when the host country's legal system is lacking but the financial markets are strong, and when MNEs partner with state-owned foreign firms or have extensive international experience.
ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT
(2022)
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Management
Marty Reilly, Pamela Sharkey Scott, Esther Tippmann, Vincent Mangematin
Summary: This paper explores multiple case studies of competence-creating subsidiaries in the information and communications technologies sector. It finds that these subsidiaries engage in a fast-moving cycle of practices called piloting to sustain their competence creation over time. They recognize opportunities and trends, innovate competences, and surrender outdated competences to enable strategic renewal. This study contributes to the theory of competence-creating subsidiaries and advances understanding of subsidiary evolution.
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
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Nutrition & Dietetics
Roselinde L. van Nee, Ellen van Kleef, Hans C. M. van Trijp
Summary: Adolescents' eating habits are influenced by parental support, but they often perceive themselves as having lower food-related autonomy and competence compared to their parents' perceptions. Availability of healthy options at home is positively associated with adolescents' healthy eating habits outside the home.
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Business
Chun-Hsiao Wang, Arup Varma
Summary: This paper examines the impact of international management strategies on expatriate practices in large Taiwanese multinational corporations, and finds that the specific international management strategy employed at the headquarters level affects the choice of expatriate practices.
ASIAN BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT
(2022)
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Management
Himadree Phookan, Revti Raman Sharma
Summary: The transfer of individual-level knowledge between subsidiaries within a multinational enterprise is influenced by the perceived relative power of the subsidiary and the cultural intelligence of individuals. Organizational identification mediates the relationship between perceived subsidiary power and knowledge seeking, with cultural intelligence moderating this effect. These findings underscore the importance of organizational identification and cultural intelligence in explaining how perceived subsidiary power impacts interpersonal knowledge transfer within MNEs.
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
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Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Kavitha Haldorai, Woo Gon Kim, Won Seok Seo, Xiaomei Cai
Summary: This study explores the impacts of learning orientation and cultural distance on the work performance of self-initiated expatriates, finding that learning orientation positively affects work performance through cross-cultural adjustment. Additionally, prior international experience moderates the relationship between learning outcomes and work performance when mediated through cross-cultural adjustment.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Management
John Geary, Julius Nyiawung
Summary: One of the most significant developments in recent years in the field of international business is the dramatic expansion of Chinese investment in Africa, which has sparked major changes in the industry. Studies have shown that the entry of a Chinese MNE has led to significant changes in the behaviors of long-resident French and American MNEs, challenging their long-standing practices and evasion of host country regulations.
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Management
Sihong Wu, Di Fan
Summary: The study found that the cross-cultural competence and engagement in CSR by expatriates contribute to the learning efficiency of subsidiaries, while expatriates' efforts positively mediate the relationship between CSR and performance outcomes. Embracing the micro-foundations perspective, this research offers implications for future international management research.
JOURNAL OF GENERAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Management
Sihong Wu, Di Fan, Liang Chen
Summary: With the rapid growth of emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs), there is increasing interest in exploring the internationalization-performance (I-P) relationship of EMNEs. However, current research on this relationship has produced contradictory findings. This study conducts a meta-analysis of 218 effect sizes from 186 studies published between 1998 and 2021, integrating and expanding the literature on the I-P relationship of EMNEs. The findings suggest that the overall I-P relationship is positive, but varies across different research designs, emerging markets, and regions. Additionally, the study reveals that home-country government quality and transformability have significant positive impacts on the relationship, while nationalism negatively moderates the government's influence.
MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL REVIEW
(2022)
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Industrial Relations & Labor
Sihong Wu, Di Fan, Anaiya Jeetendra Dabasia
Summary: Drawing on Herzberg's motivation-hygiene perspective, this study explores the factors influencing expatriate adjustment and the relationship between expatriate adjustment and subsidiary performance of emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs). Using structural equation modeling, the study tests a proposed conceptual model based on data collected from 38 EMNEs. The findings reveal the positive associations between perceived organizational support (POS) and family adjustment with expatriate adjustment, as well as the positive association between expatriate adjustment and the foreign subsidiary performance of EMNEs.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANPOWER
(2023)
Article
Business
Sihong Wu, Di Fan
Summary: This study proposes a comparative nationalism view to investigate the impacts of intercountry nationalism on MNEs' expansion. The findings suggest different degrees of comparative nationalism can lead to various expansion strategies for MNEs, including incremental expansion, deceleration, leapfrogging, and divestment strategies. This study provides a new vision for cross-border research and identifies promising future research agendas.
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Economics
Sihong Wu, Xinli Huang, Di Fan, Yongjian Li, Yiyi Su
Summary: This study investigates the impact of different cluster linkages between countries on the foreign market expansion of emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs) from a supply chain perspective. The findings show that upstream-downstream (U-D) cluster linkages reduce expansionary entries into a foreign country, while downstream-upstream (D-U) linkages lead to an increase in expansionary entries. These relationships are moderated by firm-cluster relatedness. The study also reveals a positive effect of expansionary entries on the performance of EMNEs, which is further moderated by the institutional environments in host countries. In conclusion, this study contributes to a more holistic understanding of the complexity of global production networks, considering the interplay between firms, clusters, and institutions.
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART E-LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION REVIEW
(2023)
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Business
Sihong Wu, Francesco Chirico, Di Fan, Jiayan Ding, Yiyi Su
Summary: In a fast-changing world, family firms face complex strategic decisions when exiting foreign markets due to their vulnerability to uncertainty in internationalization. This study finds that historical military friction increases family firms' foreign market exit, while cultural friction leads to a lower exit propensity. It also reveals that family management reinforces the friction-exit relationships, especially when the family firm is controlled by the first generation.
JOURNAL OF WORLD BUSINESS
(2024)
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Economics
Sihong Wu
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