Publicaties

Purpose

This research aims to provide a new perspective on the evolving linkages between LAs and FSAs in the context of the technology-based manufacturing industry. Firm-level competitive strengths in an international context build upon the combination of (largely) exogenous location advantages (LAs) and endogenous firm-specific advantages (FSAs). The authors focus especially on the decay of LAs over time, which has been observed ...

We analyze the impacts on host country innovation of three knowledge-containing, inbound flows: imports (including intermediate and capital goods), inward licensing and inward FDI (equity participation of foreign firms). We measure firm-level innovation as the number of new products introduced in the host market and new patents registered by the host-country firms. Our study is the first one to examine the simultaneous impacts of these three ...

Modern research in international business strategy (IBS) builds upon a limited number of foundational concepts. Four elements stand out as the canvas for many contemporary research studies (Verbeke, 2013). First, firm-specific advantages (FSAs) that allow compa-nies to overcome the additional costs of doing business abroad. Second, country-specific advantages (CSAs), with home-country factors operating as building blocks for devel-oping ...

A chief executive officer (CEO) acting as the firm’s transformational leader is
typically viewed as instrumental to corporate entrepreneurship in established firms, but how exactly does a higher level of corporate entrepreneurship come about, given a transformational CEO’s actions? We suggest that organizational ambidexterity can function as a core mediating mechanism between transformational CEOs and the observed level of corporate ...

What roles should corporate headquarters (CHQs) of multinational enterprises (MNEs) play in foreign subsidiary initiatives? Rather than viewing the MNE’s CHQ as a single, internally homogenous unit, we call for examining the diversity of individual decision-makers who can be driven by a variety of motivations and have different abilities. Motivations and abilities together determine whether or not corporate executives will choose to intervene in ...

We develop a novel, sense-making perspective on corruption in transition economies. Prior research has focused on understanding why some entrepreneurs are more likely to pay bribes than others. It typically assumes that paying bribes will lead to an intended – albeit unfair – competitive advantage. We challenge this assumption and uncover a bribery paradox: drawing upon sense-making logic, we argue that beyond gaining an immediate benefit from ...

Our specific focus in this book is best practices in international business (IB) research methods. We take stock of some key challenges faced by the field in the realm of research design and methods deployed, and we also discuss recent advances in overcoming these challenges. We view our book as a unique, up-to-date reference source on good and best practices. By identifying and assembling a set of exemplary JIBS articles together with ...