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Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Benito, Gabriel R.G.
(2022)
Temporality and the first foreign direct investment
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This study examines the timing of the first foreign direct investment (FDI). It explores how the conceptualization and, hence, the understanding of time affects our insights into major internationalization decisions in organizations; specifically, that of navigating into the unknown waters associated with making a first FDI. We introduce a multitemporal approach by drawing on the different temporalities prevalent in history and in business and management to build a platform for analysis that provides a suitable combination of richness and contrast. By examining the process toward making a major internationalization decision in terms of clock, event, stages, and cyclical concepts of time, we gain valuable but also varied insights about a complex process. We conclude that to understand any organization's process of international strategy formation at a certain point (or period) in time, its particularities need to be appreciated in some detail. While the details in this study are unique to the case of Harvard Business School's decision in 1971 to make its first FDI, we argue that the main features of the process are common to conceptualizing the internationalization decision process. As such, the findings should apply more generally.
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Jones, Marius & Schou, Peter Kalum
(2022)
Structuring the Start-up: How Coordination Emerges in Start-ups through Learning Sequencing
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Lavie, Dovev; Lunnan, Randi & Truong, Binh Minh Thi
(2022)
How Does a Partner’s Acquisition Affect the Value of the Firm’s Alliance with That Partner?
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Lu, Ren; Zong, Zhe, Reve, Torger & Song, Qing
(2022)
The mediating role of cash slack in the related variety and sales growth relationship: Evidence from Norway
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Rygh, Asmund; Torgersen, Kristine & Benito, Gabriel R G
(2022)
Institutions and inward foreign direct investment in the primary sectors
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Purpose
Well-functioning institutions are repeatedly claimed to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) by reducing the costs and uncertainty of economic activity. Nonetheless, it has been argued that institutions may matter less for FDI in the primary sector. This study aims to theoretically and empirically investigate the role of institutions for attracting FDI in agricultural and in extractive activities.
Design/methodology/approach
This study uses worldwide country and sector-level data on inward FDI for the period 1996–2007. The key independent variables, property rights protection, corruption and democracy, are measured using World Bank Governance Indicators and Polity IV as data sources. Fixed effect panel regression, Tobit regression and generalized method of moments are used for data analysis.
Findings
The authors corroborate the importance of institutions for aggregate FDI. Disaggregating by primary subsector, the authors find that agricultural FDI, like aggregate FDI, is attracted by institutional features such as rule of law and property rights protection and democracy, whereas extractive FDI is not. The authors also find some evidence that corruption deters FDI in both primary subsectors.
Originality/value
The authors take a first step toward linking the largely empirical institutions-FDI literature more closely with the economics-based theoretical discussions of FDI risk grounded on a property rights approach, to discuss issues such as effective control rights over investments, which may vary between sectors. The authors also explore a novel idea that extractive activities may be less sensitive to institutions because the time horizon is limited by the depletion of the resource, resulting in an inherently relatively short-term commitment to a host-country location.
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Nicolini, Davide; Pyrko, Ivor, Omidvar, Omid & Spanelli, Agnessa
(2022)
Understanding Communities of Practice: Taking Stock and Moving Forward
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This paper provides a comprehensive, integrative conceptual review of work on communities of practice (CoPs), defined broadly as groups of people bound together by a common activity, shared expertise, a passion for a joint enterprise, and a desire to learn or improve their practice. We identify three divergent views on the intended purposes and expected effects of CoPs: as mechanisms for fostering learning and knowledge-sharing, as sources of innovation, and as mechanisms to defend interests and perpetuate control over expertise domains. We use these different lenses to make sense of the ways CoPs are conceptualized and to review scholarly work on this topic. We argue that current debate on the future of work and new methodological developments are challenging the received wisdom on CoPs and offer research opportunities and new conceptual combinations. We argue also that the interaction between the lenses and between CoP theory and adjacent literatures might result in new theory and conceptualizations.
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Grecu, Alina; Sofka, Wolfgang, Larsen, Marcus Møller & Pedersen, Torben
(2022)
Unintended signals: Why companies with a history of offshoring have to pay wage penalties for new hires
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Haarman, Amanda; Larsen, Marcus Møller & Namatovu, Rebecca
(2022)
Understanding the Firm in the Informal Economy: A Research Agenda
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Ryan, Paul; Buciuni, Giulio, Giblin, Majella & Andersson, Ulf
(2022)
Global Value Chain Governance in the MNE: A Dynamic Hierarchy Perspective
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Måren, Inger Elisabeth; Wiig, Heidi, McNeal, Kathryn, Wang, Sally, Zu, Sebrina, Cao, Ren, Fürst, Kathinka & Marsh, Robin
(2022)
Diversified Farming Systems: Impacts and Adaptive Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States, Norway and China
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Zilja, Flladina; Adarkwah, Gilbert Kofi & Christopher, Sabel
(2022)
Do Environmental Policies Affect MNEs’ Foreign Subsidiary Investments? An Empirical Investigation
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Harrison, Debbie; Munksgaard, Kristin B. & Prenkert, Frans
(2022)
Coordinating Activity Interdependencies in the Contemporary Economy: The Principle of Distributed Control
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Benito, Gabriel R.G.; Cuervo-Cazurra, Alvaro, Mudambi, Ram, Pedersen, Torben & Tallman, Steve
(2022)
The future of global strategy
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Kratochvil, Renate; Gruenauer, Johanna, Friesl, Martin & Güttel, Wolfgang
(2022)
Deliberate simple rule creation and use: activities and challenges
Long range planning.
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Using ‘simple rules’ may enable managers to take organizational decisions more rapidly. While prior research presents advantages of simple rule use during strategy formation, we lack insights into how firms can deliberately create simple rules and mitigate the challenges therein. This is particularly interesting for established firms struggling to leverage their wealth of experience. We explore how managers of a multinational corporation deliberately create and use simple rules to implement the firm’s growth strategy. Drawing on interviews and secondary data, we reveal the activities through which managers ensure the relevance and legitimacy of codified simple rules, yet also establish causality between simple rules and outcomes. Simple rule creation is accomplished via bottom-up identification and lateral validation, its use via consistent top-down guiding and timely adaptation. Our findings contribute to the growing body of research on the evolution of simple rules and aspects of strategy implementation more generally.
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Aleksin, Grigory & Kalbakk-Bøhler, Simen Christian
(2022)
Environmental entrepreneurship and inclusive growth: a three-fold approach to analysis
International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development (IJTLID), 14(1-2), p. 153-191.
Doi:
10.1504/IJTLID.2022.121479
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Sgourev, Stoyan V. & Aadland, Erik
(2022)
“Burning the bridges”: escalation in the pursuit of authenticity
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Gillmore, Edward; Andersson, Ulf & Dellestrand, Henrik
(2022)
Between a rock and a hard place: The consequences of complex headquarters configurations for subsidiary R&D activities
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Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth; Sand-Holm, Sanne, Pakoglu, Ceyda & Svalestuen, Fredrik
(2022)
Challenges of Performance Measurement in Lean Construction and the Last Planner System®: A Norwegian Case
Lean Construction Journal, 40, p. 24-40.
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Loh, Johannes & Kretschmer, Tobias
(2022)
Online communities on competing platforms: Evidence from game wikis
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Prenkert, Frans; Huang, Lei, Huemer, Lars, Kask, Johan, Landquist, Maria, Pagano, Alessandro, Perna, Andrea, Poblete, León, Ratajczak-Mrozek, Milena, Wagrell, Sofia, Hedvall, Klas, Hasche, Nina, Eklinder Frick, Jens, Abrahamsen, Morten H., Aramo-Immonen, Heli, Baraldi, Enrico, Bocconcelli, Roberta & Harrison, Debbie
(2022)
Resource interaction: Key concepts, relations and representations
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Grøgaard, Birgitte; Sartor, Michael A. & Rademaker, Linda
(2022)
What merits greater scholarly attention in international business?
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Leiblein, Michael J.; Reuer, Jeffrey J., Larsen, Marcus Møller & Pedersen, Torben
(2022)
When are global decisions strategic?
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Elia, Stefano; Larsen, Marcus Møller & Piscitello, Lucia
(2022)
Choosing misaligned governance modes when offshoring business functions: A prospect theory perspective
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Colman, Helene Loe & Lunnan, Randi
(2022)
Pulling Together While Falling Apart: A Relational View on Integration in Serial Acquirers
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Colman, Helene Loe; Grøgaard, Birgitte & Stensaker, Inger G.
(2022)
Organizational identity work in MNE subsidiaries: Managing dual embeddedness
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Ngoasong, Michael Zisuh; Wang, Jinmin, Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Bjarnar, Ove
(2021)
The role of MNE subsidiaries in the practice of global business models in transforming economies
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This study provides new insights into the role of subsidiary managers in the practice of global business models of multinational enterprises in transforming economies. Drawing on the global business model literature and through semi-structured interviews with a leading Norwegian maritime multinational enterprise in China, we have developed and critically explored a theoretical framework for uncovering how subsidiary managers understand and manage the tensions between the headquarters based in a western country and the subsidiaries based in a transforming economy. More specifically, when implementing the global business model in the transforming economy, subsidiary managers need to undertake effective management of structural, behavioural, and cultural tensions along with the global integration-local responsiveness dilemma. Subsidiary managers can contribute to solving structural tensions between the headquarters and subsidiary by undertaking effective market sensing and knowledge transfer activities to integrate the transforming economies into the MNE's global production networks. Meanwhile, they need to make effective relationship management to solve behavioural and cultural tensions.
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Békes, Gabor; Benito, Gabriel R G, Castellani, Davide & Muraközy, Balazs
(2021)
Into the unknown: The extent and boldness of firms' international footprint
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Seljom, Liselotte; Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth, Riis, Christian, Petkovic, Gordana & Berg, Hallvard
(2021)
Klimatilpasning av vårt bygde miljø og utfordringer ved dagens kost-nytteanalyser
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Chen, Mei; Ni, Peijie, Reve, Torger, Huang, Jing & Lu, Ren
(2021)
Sales growth or employment growth? Exporting conundrum for new ventures
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Petersen, Bent; Benito, Gabriel R G & Welch, Lawrence S
(2021)
Foreign operation mode flexibility: tradeoffs and managerial responses
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Stefania, Sardo; Parmiggiani, Elena & Hoholm, Thomas
(2021)
Not in transition: Inter-infrastructural governance and the politics of repair in the Norwegian oil and gas offshore industry
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In the past three decades, there has been an increasing interest in transitions as crucial analytical moments of socio-technical change, with infrastructures being strategic loci from where to leverage these transformations. In this article, we argue for the necessity to re-engage with not-in-transition periods, which have theoretically and analytically been oversimplified. By focusing on the socio-technical practices of repair across interconnected infrastructures under not-in-transition conditions, we provide a better understanding of how these periods are (re)produced. Our in-depth case study of the Norwegian offshore oil and gas (O&G) drilling industry shows how stability can be ensured by means of inter-infrastructural governance carried on by specific power constellations, i.e. action nodes. The way they mould infrastructural components is revealed when normal operations are endangered by adverse events, such as accidents or economic crises.
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Steen, Riana & Rønningsbakk, Bernt
(2021)
Emergent Learning During Crisis: A case study of the Arctic Circle border crossing at Storskog in Norway
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Rødvik, Arne Kirkhorn; Myhrum, Marte, Larsson, Evelina Lisa Algi, Falkenberg, Eva-Signe & Kværner, Kari Jorunn
(2021)
Sustained Reduction of Tinnitus Several Years after Sequential Cochlear Implantation
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Objective
This study aimed to explore the short- and long-term effects of a second cochlear implant (CI-2) on the reduction of tinnitus annoyance and tinnitus handicap.
Design
In a combined retrospective and prospective cohort study, tinnitus annoyance was measured before receiving the CI-2 (Pre), more than two years after (Post1) and more than seven years after (Post2), using the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI), the Visual Analog Scale for the assessment of perceived tinnitus loudness (VAS-L) and annoyance (VAS-A), and a self-report questionnaire.
Study sample
Twenty sequentially bilaterally implanted adults with bothersome tinnitus.
Results
CI-2 implantation resulted in a statistically significant reduction of tinnitus handicap from severe at Pre to mild at Post1 (THI mean score reduced from 61.3 [SD = 19.4] to 29.3 [SD = 23.5]). The reduction in tinnitus annoyance was statistically significant from Pre to Post 2 (VAS-A reduced from 7.1 [SD = 1.5] to 3.4 [SD = 2.2]). The reduction in tinnitus loudness was not statistically significant.
Conclusions
The provision of a CI-2 for severely and profoundly hearing-impaired individuals with bothersome tinnitus is an effective method of providing long-term tinnitus relief.
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Wang, Pengfei
(2021)
Gain initial endorsement from the core: market entry, initial partners, and embeddedness in the venture capital market
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Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Davila, Carlos
(2021)
Making Managers in Latin America: The Emergence of Executive Education in Central America, Peru, and Colombia
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Executive education programs offered by business schools became a global phenomenon for developing top managers in the 1960s. These programs were established in more than 40 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America, in less than two decades. This article explores the phenomenon in three different Latin America contexts: Central America, Peru, and Colombia. In all these cases, initiatives led to successful executive programs, which contributed to the growth of business schools that gradually achieved high international reputation. By studying the way that various US actors interacted differently with local actors in the three cases, the article contributes to three discussions within business history: the history of Americanization, management education, and the alternative business history of emerging markets.
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Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Elias, Allison Louise
(2021)
Business schools and the roles of the executives' wives
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This article shows how historical studies enrich our understanding of imprinting theory and can further our knowledge about gender in business schools. In the founding period of executive education following World War II, rather than excluding women from participation, U.S. business schools included women as wives in the socialization process as their husbands trained for top corporate manager positions. We contend that the imprint of the separate spheres ideology, whereby men and women engaged in different aspects of social and economic life, persisted in subsequent decades despite business schools’ efforts to more fully integrate women into the classroom. The article makes two contributions to imprinting theory. First, it shows how a historical approach to studying ideological imprints from a founding period develops our knowledge as to why some imprints persist over time. Second, it extends our understanding on how to study imprints in a multilevel context. Our empirical data draws from the archives of leading business schools, as well as from academic literature, popular business articles, media reports, and a literary novel.
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Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth; Swärd, Anna & Vaagaasar, Anne Live
(2021)
A Routine Dynamics Lens on the Stability-Change Dilemma in Project-Based Organizations
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Namatovu, Rebecca & Larsen, Marcus Møller
(2021)
Responding to COVID-19: Insights from African firms
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Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & Benito, Gabriel R.G.
(2021)
Opening the black box of international strategy formation: How Harvard Business School became a multinational enterprise
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This article addresses the question of why some business schools internationalize by establishing units abroad. We study their internationalization by examining the process that led to Harvard Business School’s first international strategy and its first foreign direct investment. The study elaborates how internationalization theories are applicable to research on the internationalization of business schools by exploring the role of environment and agency. The analysis shows that in an academic organization characterized as a loosely coupled system, individuals may influence the collective cognition in a strategy process by using new theoretical insights to conceptualize experiences and legitimize decisions. This demonstrates that agency is a multifaceted concept and its function depends on who has agency and how it is used. By exploring how a new academic discipline, international business, contributed both to the conceptualization and the legitimization of a new strategy, the study provides new insight into the process that leads to the formation of an international strategy.
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Raziq, Muhammad Mustafa; Benito, Gabriel R G & Ahmad, Mansoor
(2021)
Institutional distance and MNE-subsidiary
initiative collaboration: The role of
dual embeddedness
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Franco Torres, Manuel; Kvålshaugen, Ragnhild & Ugarelli, Rita Maria
(2021)
Understanding the governance of urban water services from an institutional logics perspective
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In recent decades, the urban water sector has experienced accelerating social complexity that derives from conflicting goals and beliefs, making the sustainability of the sector primarily a governance issue. However, existing governance models do not reflect the new reality. There is thus an urgent need to develop an urban water governance model reflecting this increasing complexity, to support sustainable governance. We integrate concepts from sociology, institutional theory and sustainability transitions to build a governance framework that includes interactions of social structures, and practices, shaped by different institutional logics and categorised at strategic, tactic, operational, and reflexive level.
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Stoknes, Per Espen; Bjerke Soldal, Olav, Hansen, Sissel, Kvande, Ingvar & Skjelderup, Sylvia Weddegjerde
(2021)
Willingness to Pay for Crowdfunding Local Agricultural Climate Solutions
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Huemer, Lars & Wang, Xiaobei
(2021)
Resource bundles and value creation: An analytical framework
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All organizations intend to create some form of value. Yet, the most influential analytical frameworks focusing
on resources emphasize competitive advantage, which is a concern for only some organizations. This study proposes
a novel analytical framework focusing on value creation. Moreover, the framework returns to the emphasis
on the bundled nature of resources stressed in earlier strategy theory. The concepts of resource interfaces, resource
imprints and cogency effects, are combined to (i) highlight the bundled and interdependent nature of resources
(ii) reinterpret the classical emphasis on rareness and inimitability and (iii) redefine the meaning of a
strategic resource. With help of a longitudinal case study, the scope of value creation is broadened by reconsidering
the meaning of the ‘best resource’ and the ‘weakest link’; focusing on being ‘better with…’ rather than being
‘better than….’.
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Mæhle, Per Magnus; Hajdarevic, Senada, Håland, Erna, Aarhus, Rikke, Smeland, Sigbjørn & Mørk, Bjørn Erik
(2021)
Exploring the triggering process of a cancer care reform in three Scandinavian countries
International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 36(6), p. 2231-2247.
Doi:
10.1002/hpm.3278
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Rygh, Asmund & Benito, Gabriel R.G.
(2021)
Governmental goals and the international strategies of state-owned multinational enterprises: A conceptual discussion
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Osman, Shahrin; Sundarakani, Balan & Reve, Torger
(2021)
Benchmarking of Singapore maritime cluster: the role of cluster facilitators
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Lohne, Jardar; Holm, Hans Thomas, Hunn, Lars Kristian, Kalsaas, Bo Terje, Klakegg, Ole Jonny, Knotten, Vegard, Kristensen, Kai Haakon, Olsson, Nils, Rolstadås, Asbjørn, Skaar, John, Svalestuen, Fredrik, Torp, Olav, Vaagen, Hajnalka, Wondimu, Paulos, Lædre, Ola, Andersen, Bjørn Sørskot, Aslesen, Sigmund, Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth, Bølviken, Trond, Drevland, Frode, Engebø, Atle & Fosse, Roar
(2021)
The emergence of lean construction in the Norwegian AEC industry
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Leiblein, Michael J.; Larsen, Marcus Møller & Pedersen, Torben
(2021)
Are governance mode and foreign location choices independent?
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Peprah, Augustine Awuah; Giachetti, Claudio, Larsen, Marcus Møller & Rajwani, Tazeeb S.
(2021)
How Business Models Evolve in Weak Institutional Environments: The Case of Jumia, the Amazon.Com of Africa
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Nicolini, Davide & Korica, Maja
(2021)
Attentional engagement as practice: A study of the attentional infrastructure of healthcare chief executive officers
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In this paper, we investigate the attentional engagement of chief executive officers (CEOs) of large healthcare organizations in England. We study attention ethnographically as something managers do—at different times, in context, and in relation to others. We find that CEOs match the challenges of volume, fragmentation, and variety of attentional demands with a bundle of practices to activate attention, regulate the quantity and quality of information, stay focused over time, and prioritize attention. We call this bundle of practices the CEO’s attentional infrastructure. The practices that compose the attentional infrastructure work together to ensure that CEOs balance paying too much with paying too little attention, sustain attention on multiple issues over time, and allocate attention to the issues that matter, while avoiding becoming swamped by too many other concerns. The attentional infrastructure and its component practices are constantly revised and adapted to match the changes in the environment and ensure that managers remain on top of the things that matter to them. The idea of a practice-based attentional infrastructure advances theory by expanding and articulating the concept of attentional engagement, a central element in the attention-based view of the firm. We also demonstrate the benefits of studying attention as practice, rather than as an exclusively mental phenomenon. Finally, we contribute to managerial practice by introducing a set of categories that managers can use to interrogate their existing attentional practices and address attentional traps and difficulties.
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Lu, Ren; Song, Qing, Xia, Tingting, Lv, Daguo, Reve, Torger & Jian, Ze
(2021)
Unpacking the U-shaped relationship between
related variety and firm sales: Evidence
from Japan
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Meurer, Madeleine; Waldkirch, Matthias, Schou, Peter Kalum, Bucher, Eliane & Burmeister-Lamp, Katrin
(2021)
Digital affordances: how entrepreneurs access support in online communities during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Bass, Erin & Grøgaard, Birgitte
(2021)
The long-term energy transition: Drivers, outcomes, and the role of the multinational enterprise
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The pre-eminence of the production and consumption of nonrenewable fossil fuels is waning with the growth of renewable energy solutions. This long-term energy (LTE) transition is one of the global grand challenges, characterized by uncertain and evolving markets. Although this is a global issue, there are regional differences and non-linear trajectories that suggest that the LTE transition is a complex challenge for firms and countries. For international business scholars, questions related to the role and effect of multinational enterprises in the context of the LTE transition have opened new avenues for advancing theoretical, managerial, and policy understanding. Thus, we advance this body of research by presenting a framework that delineates important drivers and outcomes of the transition. In this way, we emphasize how MNEs both influence and are being influenced by the LTE transition. We identify theoretical perspectives that may be useful to address LTE transition challenges, and suggest avenues for future research on this global grand challenge.
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Reichstein-Scholz, Harriet; Giroud, Axèle, Yamin, Mo & Andersson, Ulf
(2021)
Sales to centre stage! Determinants of the division in strategic sales decisions within the MNE
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Flygansvær, Bente Merete; Bygballe, Lena Elisabeth & Harrison, Debbie
(2021)
Hvordan få kraft i bærekraft?
Magma - Tidsskrift for økonomi og ledelse, nr 5, p. 104-110.
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Callegari, Beniamino; Luzzi, Alessandra, Martinsen, Ingvild & Walla, Elise
(2021)
Digital Transformation: meet or evade the Challenge? A Case Study in the Maritime Industry
Academy of Management Proceedings.
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Raziq, Muhammad Mustafa; Benito, Gabriel R G & Kang, Yuanfei
(2021)
Multinational enterprise organizational structures and subsidiary role and capability development: The moderating role of establishment mode
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Bjerke Soldal, Olav; Wærp, Hilde Kristine Lyby & Fledsberg Vatne, Camilla
(2021)
Mind the gap(s)! Ressursmegling for å kutte det norske matsvinnet
Magma - Tidsskrift for økonomi og ledelse, 25(5), p. 95-103.
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Saiedi, Ed; Broström, Anders & Ruiz, Felipe
(2021)
Global drivers of cryptocurrency infrastructure adoption
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A vast digital ecosystem of entrepreneurship and exchange has sprung up with Bitcoin’s digital infrastructure at its core. We explore the worldwide spread of infrastructure necessary to maintain and grow Bitcoin as a system (Bitcoin nodes) and infrastructure enabling the use of bitcoins for everyday economic transactions (Bitcoin merchants). Specifically, we investigate the role of legal, criminal, financial, and social determinants of the adoption of Bitcoin infrastructure. We offer some support for the view that the adoption of cryptocurrency infrastructure is driven by perceived failings of traditional financial systems, in that the spread of Bitcoin infrastructure is associated with low trust in banks and the financial system among inhabitants of a region, and with the occurrence of country-level inflation crises. On the other hand, our findings also suggest that active support for Bitcoin is higher in locations with well-developed banking services. Finally, we find support for the view that bitcoin adoption is also partly driven by cryptocurrencies’ usefulness in engaging in illicit trade.
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Weiss, Gerhard; Hansen, Eric, Ludvig, Alice, Nybakk, Erlend & Toppinen, Anne
(2021)
Innovation governance in the forest sector: Reviewing concepts, trends and gaps
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Innovation in the forest sector is a growing research interest and within this field, there is a growing attention for institutional, policy and societal dimensions and particular when it comes to the question of how to support innovativeness in the sector. This Special Issue therefore focuses on governance aspects, relating to and bridging business and political-institutional-societal levels. This includes social/societal factors, goals and implications that have recently been studied under the label of social innovation. Furthermore, the emergence of bioeconomy as a paradigm and policy goal has become a driver for a variety of innovation processes on company and institutional levels. Our article provides a tentative definition of “innovation governance” and attempts a state-of-art review of innovation governance research in the forest sector. For structuring the research field, we propose to distinguish between organizational/managerial, policy or innovation studies. For the forestry sector, specifically, we suggest to distinguish between studies focusing on (i) innovative governance of forest management and forest goods and services; on (ii) the governance of innovation processes as such, or (iii) on specific (transformational) approaches that may be derived from combined goals such as innovation governance for sustainability, regional development, or a bioeconomy. Studies in the forest sector are picking up new trends from innovation research that increasingly include the role of societal changes and various stakeholders such as civil society organizations and users. They also include public-private partnership models or participatory governance. We finally should not only look in how far research approaches from outside are applied in the sector but we believe that the sector could contribute much more to our general scientific knowledge on ways for a societal transformation to sustainability.
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Adarkwah, Gilbert Kofi; Sabel, Christopher Albert & Zilja, Flladina
(2021)
Changes in political affinity and firms’ subsidiary investments
Academy of Management Proceedings.
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Ostergaard, Charlotte; Sasson, Amir & Sørensen, Bent E.
(2020)
Cash flow sensitivities and bank-finance shocks in non-listed firms
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We study how small firms manage cash flows by estimating cash flow sensitivities for all sources and uses of cash. Our data are Norwegian non-listed firms which can be matched to the banks they borrow from. Firms with low cash holdings mainly use external finance to offset cash flow fluctuations over the cycle, whereas firms with high cash holdings rely mainly on internal finance. Estimating how cash flow sensitivities change with exogenous bank shocks, we find that the cyclicality of cash-poor firms' investment is amplified because they do not substitute internal for external finance. Our results imply that for small firms, the transmission of financial shocks to the real economy is closely tied to their accumulation of cash.
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Raziq, Muhammad Mustafa; Benito, Gabriel R G & Igoe, Josephine
(2020)
Subsidiary country managers and subsidiary development: Upper echelons and resource-based perspectives
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Aarset, Bernt; Carson, Siri Granum, Wiig, Heidi, Måren, Inger Elisabeth & Marks, Jessica
(2020)
Lost in Translation? Multiple Discursive Strategies and the Interpretation of Sustainability in the Norwegian Salmon Farming Industry
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Aguzzoli, Roberta; Lengler, Jorge, Sousa, Carlos M.P. & Benito, Gabriel R G
(2020)
Here we go again : a case study on re-entering a foreign market
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Globalization has motivated firms to expand into foreign markets, but internationalization is inherently dynamic. Many firms have exited foreign markets for various reasons, but some later decide to re‐enter those same markets. Based on a case study of a Brazilian multinational's activities in Mexico, this study contributes to the literature on re‐entry decisions of multinational enterprises and their outcomes, focusing on the roles of institutional voids and the experiences of decision‐makers during such processes. The findings suggest that companies learn from their mistakes and reconsider how they approach re‐entry and the resources that may need to be mobilized. However, the learning process is not straightforward as it is clouded by international knowledge myopia. This study highlights how multiple actors and considerations influence re‐entry events.
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Adarkwah, Gilbert Kofi & Petersen Malonæs, Tine
(2020)
Firm-specific advantages: a comprehensive review with a focus on emerging markets
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We consolidate and comprehensively review the international business (IB) literature on the firm-specific advantages (FSAs) of emerging market multinational enterprises (EM MNEs). We do so through a systematic examination of 88 empirical and conceptual articles published in top-ranked IB journals between 2011 and 2018. The results reveal that in the past decades, EM MNEs have acquired several of the same FSAs as their counterparts in developed countries (developed country enterprises or DC MNEs) financial resources, technologies, marketing capabilities, brand equity, R&D intensity, and management competencies. However, more recently, EM MNEs have developed additional unique FSAs in the form of managerial capabilities - to cope with competition in uncertain and constantly changing environments; easy access to cheaper capital; a stronger commitment to networks, such as those with diaspora communities; and, political connections. These additional FSAs have catalyzed the internationalization of EM MNEs. Our study also shows that some hurdles remain in the IB literature on FSAs. For instance, while IB scholars agree that EM MNEs have different investment motives depending on whether they invest in other emerging economies or developed economies, scholars are silent on the exact FSAs necessary to make EM MNEs investments in the respective economies successful. To advance the IB literature, we present some promising future research areas and challenge scholars to pursue further empirical studies on the FSAs of EM MNEs.
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Lu, Ren; Lu, Qi, Lv, Daguo, Huang, Yuxiang, Li, Shuping, Jian, Ze & Reve, Torger
(2020)
THE EVOLUTION PROCESS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP STUDIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY: RESEARCH INSIGHTS FROM TOP BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS JOURNALS
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Håkansson, Håkan & Waluszewski, Alexandra
(2020)
“Thick or thin”? Policy and the different conceptualisations of business interaction patterns
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Wendt, Kjersti; Mørk, Bjørn Erik, Berg, Ole Trond & Fosse, Erik
(2020)
Medicine and interest politics a study of decision-making processes in the area of vascular surgery in Norway
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to increase the understanding of organizational challenges when
decision-makers try to comply with technological developments and increasing demands for a more rational
distribution of health care services. This paper explores two decision-making processes from 2007–2019 in the
area of vascular surgery at a regional and a local level in Norway.
Design/methodology/approach – The study draws upon extensive document analyses, semi-structured
interviews and field conversations. The empirical material was analyzed in several steps through an inductive
approach and described and explained through a theoretical framework based on rational choice (i.e. bounded
rationality), political behavior and institutionalism. These perspectives were used in a complementary way.
Findings – Both decision-making processes were resource-intensive, long-lasting and produced few
organizational changes for the provision of vascular services. Stakeholders at both levels outmaneuvered the
health care planners, though by different means. Regionally, the decision-making ended up in a political
process, while locally the decision-making proceeded as a strategic game between different departments and
professional fields.Practical implications –Decision-makers need to prepare thoroughly for convincing others of the benefits of
new ways of organizing clinical care. By providing meaningful opportunities for public involvement, by
identifying and anticipating political agendas and by building alliances between stakeholders with divergent
values and aims decision-makers may extend the realm of feasible solutions.
Originality/value – This paper contributes to the understanding of why decision-making processes can be
particularly challenging in a field characterized by rapid technological development, new treatment options
and increasing demands for more rational distribution of services.
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Surdu, Irina; Greve, Henrich R. & Benito, Gabriel R G
(2020)
Back to basics: Behavioral theory and internationalization
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Kipping, Matthias; Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik & McGlade, Jacqueline
(2020)
Making managers: a fresh look
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Wiig, Heidi; Liu, Ju & Zukauskaite, Elena
(2020)
Global knowledge sourcing in thick and diversified RIS: case studies in Oslo, Malmø and Beijing.
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Friesl, Martin; Stensaker, Inger G. & Colman, Helene Loe
(2020)
Strategy implementation: Taking stock and moving forward
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Andersson, Marius; Moen, Øystein & Brett, Per Olaf
(2020)
The organizational climate for psychological safety: Associations with SMEs' innovation capabilities and innovation performance
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Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Lunnan, Randi, Bjarnar, Ove & Halse, Lise Lillebrygfjeld
(2020)
Keeping up with the neighbors: The role of cluster identity in internationalization
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This paper explores the implications of the collective identity of a regional cluster on firms’ internationalization. Prior research has established the value of cluster “insidership” through access to knowledge and resources. Through a longitudinal study, we find that cluster identity, through distinct identity claims, provides imperatives and shapes the motivation of firms to internationalize. These imperatives, we argue, stem from cluster identity seen as defined features of regional collectives, extending reference theory to encompass the role of social cues from similar firms located geographically close. The imperatives are particularly salient in the early stages of firms’ internationalization, adding the role of cluster identity to explain the differences between inexperienced and experienced firms in internationalization.
Keywords: Cluster identity; Internationalization; Multinational enterprise; Longitudinal study.
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Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik
(2020)
Creating the new executive: postwar executive
education and socialization into the managerial
elite
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Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Bjarnar, Ove & Berge, Dag Magne
(2020)
Resilience and related variety : the role of family firms in an ocean-related Norwegian region
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Recent research in economic geography has introduced two notions
that historical studies should explore: regional resilience and related
variety. Regional resilience refers to a region’s ability to recover from
external shocks. Related variety refers to the existence of related industrial sectors in a region, and the relatedness promotes economic development due to spill-overs between sectors. From an evolutionary
perspective, external shocks result in new development paths in regions
with related variety. This is a dynamic process well suited to historical
studies. This article argues that historical studies can contribute to this
literature by studying how related sectors interact in resilient regions.
We propose that family firms may act as a micro-coordination mechanism by moving financial and human resources from one sector to
another related sector as a response to shock. The paper develops this
argument by studying how six major regional business families within
ocean industries reacted to external shocks over time.
Keywords: regional resilience, economic geography, family firms, regional history, related variety
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Bocconcelli, Roberta; Carlborg, Per, Harrison, Debbie, Hasche, Nina, Hedvall, Klas & Huang, Lei
(2020)
Resource Interaction and Resource Integration: Similarities, Differences, Reflections
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The purpose of this paper is to provide a state-of-the-art comparison of the conceptualization of resources in ‘Resource Interaction’ (IMP) and ‘Resource Integration’ (SDL). Both are engaged with understanding how value is (co)-created, but with different emphases. Existing comparisons are limited and out of date. We trace how each has evolved over time by analyzing key developments. The focus of SDL has shifted from operant resources towards resource integration, and from a dyadic view towards ecosystem contexts. Within IMP, research takes a network perspective in investigating the nature of resource interaction in a variety of empirical contexts. An analysis of similarities and differences highlights key assumptions, the classification of resources, and the role for the actor. The comparison offers a thorough understanding of Resource Interaction and Resource Integration. The paper concludes by proposing suggestions for further research for Resource Interaction.
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Kværner, Kari Jorunn; Støme, Linn Nathalie, Romm, Jonathan, Rygh, Karianne, Almqvist, Frida , Tornås, Sveinung & Berg, Marianne Støren
(2020)
Coassessment framework to identify person-centred unmet needs in stroke rehabilitation: a case report in Norway
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Pedersen, Torben; Larsen, Marcus Møller & Dasi, Ángels
(2020)
Searching locally and globally: Applying Daniel Levinthal’s scholarship to international business
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Fjeldstad, Øystein Devik; Johnson, Julie K., Margolis, Peter A., Seid, Michael, Höglund, Pär & Batalden, Paul B.
(2020)
Networked health care: Rethinking value creation in learning health care systems
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Creating better value in health care service today is very challenging. The social pressure to do so is real for every health care system and its leadership. Real benefit has been achieved in manufacturing sector work by the use of “value-chain” thinking, which assumes that the work is a series of linked processes necessary to make a product. For those activities in health care systems that are similar, this model may be very helpful. Attempts to “install” the value chain widely in health care systems have, however, been frustrating. As a result, well-meaning leaders seeking better value have resorted to programs of cost reduction, rather than service redesign. Professionals have not been very happy or willing participants. The work of health care service invites an expanded model of value creation, one that better matches the work. This paper proposes a networked architecture that can mobilize and integrate the resources of health care professionals, interested patients, family, and other community members in the delivery and improvement of health care systems. It also suggests how this value-creation architecture might contribute to research and the development of new knowledge. Two cases illustrate the proposed architecture and its implications for system design and practice, technology development, and roles and responsibilities of all actors involved in health care systems. We believe that this model better fits the need of making and improving health care services. This expanded understanding of how value is created invites attention by senior leaders, by those attempting to facilitate the improvement of current systems, by patients and clinicians involved in the daily work of health care service coproduction, by those charged with the preparation and formation of future professionals, by those who measure and conduct research in health care services, and by those leading policy, payment, and reimbursement systems.
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Riviere, Monica; Bass, A. Erin & Andersson, Ulf
(2020)
Dynamic capability development in multinational enterprises: Reconciling routine reconfiguration between the headquarters and subsidiaries