We examine the impact of acquirer’s acquisition experience, corporate reputation, and corporate s... more We examine the impact of acquirer’s acquisition experience, corporate reputation, and corporate social responsibility on stock market reactions to acquisition announcements. We argue that under unc...
Further recognizing the high uncertainty and volatility faced by multinational corporations (MNCs... more Further recognizing the high uncertainty and volatility faced by multinational corporations (MNCs) in the current geopolitical environment, this AIB Insights issue continues our prior issue’s theme with three geopolitics-focused articles on stay or exit decisions in geopolitical crises, geopolitical resilience, and managing disengagement during political disruptions. It also contains articles on building inclusive governance of global value chains and mature subsidiaries in emerging markets, along with an interview with lebua Hotels & Resorts CEO Deepak Ohri. A brief update on the journal’s progress is also provided.
Since 2013, AIB Insights has dedicated an issue to finalists for the prestigious Peter J. Buckley... more Since 2013, AIB Insights has dedicated an issue to finalists for the prestigious Peter J. Buckley and Mark Casson AIB Dissertation Award. For the eighth consecutive year, we proudly feature articles by the four award finalists summarizing insights from their cutting-edge dissertation research. Converting to digital distribution allows us to essentially publish a double issue by also presenting a Topic Forum on this year’s AIB Presidential Recognition Award. This award honored the 30th anniversary of the World Investment Report (WIR) and its contribution to the field of international business. We include commentaries by the three leaders of the WIR report across its 30 issues, and two articles detailing the scope and impact of these reports.
In this article, AIB Insights’ editors introduce their Special Issue focusing on effects of COVID... more In this article, AIB Insights’ editors introduce their Special Issue focusing on effects of COVID-19 on international business policies and strategies. The seven articles published in this issue provide key insights for navigating international business during this pandemic.
This issue explores the importance of managing reputation across borders. Despite extensive liter... more This issue explores the importance of managing reputation across borders. Despite extensive literature examining antecedents and consequences of firm-level reputation, multinational enterprise (MNE) managers face challenges managing reputations across different countries. Our ability to advise these managers would benefit from better understanding factors influencing reputation development across countries and the ways that reputations can be transferred across borders. We create a roadmap of opportunities for more research in this area and introduce the four issue articles related to managing reputation across borders. The issue also contains one article addressing challenges for qualitative research about international business in the Covid-19 era.
We examine the influence of multinationality and business group diversification on firm performan... more We examine the influence of multinationality and business group diversification on firm performance. Further, we examine how their interaction varies between service and manufacturing firms. We assess these relations in three Latin American countries using a sample of 103 firms over the period from 2000 to 2007. We found that there is a limit to the positive effects of business group diversification and that business group diversification effectively moderates the multinationality-performance (M-P) relationship. Our results also suggest that diversified business groups have a stronger positive influence on the M-P relationship for service firms compared to manufacturing firms.
Companies evaluate LGBT policy adoption in an environment with competing and often contradictory ... more Companies evaluate LGBT policy adoption in an environment with competing and often contradictory societal institutions and ethical frames. This makes the adoption process more difficult to understand when compared to new practice diffusion in less contested settings, providing an opportunity to examine diffusion in an uncertain and varying institutional environment. Herein, we develop a policy adoption model that examines both competing and reinforcing forces. Utilizing a longitudinal dataset of LGBT policy adoption by 283 firms across 1980 firm-years between 2002 and 2014 as measured by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), we find that firms respond to coercive, social constructivist, and competitive forces for and against LGBT-inclusive work policy adoption. We find that coercive forces exercised by shareholder resolutions and competitive forces driven by industry-level policy adoption lead to firm-level policy adoption. However, other forces, such as state-level anti-marriage equalit...
Calls to address diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) have become common around the globe. This ... more 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.
We examine the impact of acquirer’s acquisition experience, corporate reputation, and corporate s... more We examine the impact of acquirer’s acquisition experience, corporate reputation, and corporate social responsibility on stock market reactions to acquisition announcements. We argue that under unc...
Further recognizing the high uncertainty and volatility faced by multinational corporations (MNCs... more Further recognizing the high uncertainty and volatility faced by multinational corporations (MNCs) in the current geopolitical environment, this AIB Insights issue continues our prior issue’s theme with three geopolitics-focused articles on stay or exit decisions in geopolitical crises, geopolitical resilience, and managing disengagement during political disruptions. It also contains articles on building inclusive governance of global value chains and mature subsidiaries in emerging markets, along with an interview with lebua Hotels & Resorts CEO Deepak Ohri. A brief update on the journal’s progress is also provided.
Since 2013, AIB Insights has dedicated an issue to finalists for the prestigious Peter J. Buckley... more Since 2013, AIB Insights has dedicated an issue to finalists for the prestigious Peter J. Buckley and Mark Casson AIB Dissertation Award. For the eighth consecutive year, we proudly feature articles by the four award finalists summarizing insights from their cutting-edge dissertation research. Converting to digital distribution allows us to essentially publish a double issue by also presenting a Topic Forum on this year’s AIB Presidential Recognition Award. This award honored the 30th anniversary of the World Investment Report (WIR) and its contribution to the field of international business. We include commentaries by the three leaders of the WIR report across its 30 issues, and two articles detailing the scope and impact of these reports.
In this article, AIB Insights’ editors introduce their Special Issue focusing on effects of COVID... more In this article, AIB Insights’ editors introduce their Special Issue focusing on effects of COVID-19 on international business policies and strategies. The seven articles published in this issue provide key insights for navigating international business during this pandemic.
This issue explores the importance of managing reputation across borders. Despite extensive liter... more This issue explores the importance of managing reputation across borders. Despite extensive literature examining antecedents and consequences of firm-level reputation, multinational enterprise (MNE) managers face challenges managing reputations across different countries. Our ability to advise these managers would benefit from better understanding factors influencing reputation development across countries and the ways that reputations can be transferred across borders. We create a roadmap of opportunities for more research in this area and introduce the four issue articles related to managing reputation across borders. The issue also contains one article addressing challenges for qualitative research about international business in the Covid-19 era.
We examine the influence of multinationality and business group diversification on firm performan... more We examine the influence of multinationality and business group diversification on firm performance. Further, we examine how their interaction varies between service and manufacturing firms. We assess these relations in three Latin American countries using a sample of 103 firms over the period from 2000 to 2007. We found that there is a limit to the positive effects of business group diversification and that business group diversification effectively moderates the multinationality-performance (M-P) relationship. Our results also suggest that diversified business groups have a stronger positive influence on the M-P relationship for service firms compared to manufacturing firms.
Companies evaluate LGBT policy adoption in an environment with competing and often contradictory ... more Companies evaluate LGBT policy adoption in an environment with competing and often contradictory societal institutions and ethical frames. This makes the adoption process more difficult to understand when compared to new practice diffusion in less contested settings, providing an opportunity to examine diffusion in an uncertain and varying institutional environment. Herein, we develop a policy adoption model that examines both competing and reinforcing forces. Utilizing a longitudinal dataset of LGBT policy adoption by 283 firms across 1980 firm-years between 2002 and 2014 as measured by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), we find that firms respond to coercive, social constructivist, and competitive forces for and against LGBT-inclusive work policy adoption. We find that coercive forces exercised by shareholder resolutions and competitive forces driven by industry-level policy adoption lead to firm-level policy adoption. However, other forces, such as state-level anti-marriage equalit...
Calls to address diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) have become common around the globe. This ... more 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.
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