Ethics and taxation : a cross-national comparison of UK and Turkish firms

This paper investigates responses to tax related ethical issues facing busines

The multinational enterprise as a learning organization

Cover title.Includes bibliographical references (p. 23-24).Supported by the International Motor Vehicle Program at MIT.by Donald R. Lessard and Alice H. Amsden

How it feels ‘on the ground’ : the experiences of residents from a subnational island jurisdiction

Beyond the houses of assembly, media, political hustings and the law courts, how is life on a small, subnational island jurisdiction played out? This paper is an attempt to explore and explain how islanders feel to be governed ‘on the ground’. It suggests that individuals and households seek to exploit global and local offerings and opportunities in a flexibly strategic combination, as well as out of sheer necessity. SNIJ residents will suffer the achievements and failures of the various layers of political officers, at home and abroad, while typically hedging their bets. Securing double residencies, undergoing multiple stints overseas for work and education, tolerating complex transportation routes and itineraries, becomes the order of the day, every day, for those who have the resources and capabilities of doing so; and the dreams and desires of those who cannot.peer-reviewe

Strategic human resource management: insights from the international hotel industry

In the strategic human resource management (SHRM) field three approaches have dominated, namely, the universal or best-practice, best-fit or contingency and resource-based view (RBV). This study investigates evidence for the simultaneous or mixed adoption of these approaches by eight case study firms in the international hotel industry. Findings suggest there is considerable evidence of the combined use of the first two approaches but that the SHRM RBV approach was difficult to achieve by all companies. Overall, gaining differentiation through SHRM practices was found to be challenging due to specific industry forces. The study identifies that where companies derive some competitive advantage from their human resources and HRM practices they have closely aligned their managers’ expertise with their corporate market entry mode expertise and developed some distinctive, complex and integrated HRM interventions, which have a mutually reinforcing effect

Culture, Cultural Distance and Cultural Intelligence : A Multilevel Hierarchical Linear Model Analysis of Contextual Business Cultural Intelligence Quotient Antecedents

Master's thesis Business Administration BE501 - University of Agder 2019Purpose –The purpose of our master thesis is to investigate contextual antecedents to Cultural Intelligence development. Particularly, we assess the ability of cultural distance to predict Business Cultural Intelligence Quotient scores.Design / methodology / approach–Given our literature review, we hypothesize that cultural distance significantly affects BCIQ in a positive way. For this matter, we split our hypothesis into three sub-hypothesis and measured cultural distance in three ways: having at least one foreign parent, the Mahalanobis cultural distance, and the delta of each GLOBE’s practices dimensions expressed as the difference in birth and residence country scores. Due to having variables at the individual and country level, we utilize a multilevel Hierarchical Linear Model to run our analysis on a sample consisting of 3474 individuals from 54 home and 45 host countries.Findings –In general, we found support for our overarching hypothesis; nevertheless, cultural distance impacts BCIQ in complex ways. On one hand, having a multicultural background has a negative effect on BCIQ; on the other hand, Mahalanobis distance impacts positively but weakly BCIQ. Furthermore, from the nine GLOBE delta practices, only Future Orientation dimension affects positively BCIQ; however, Uncertainty Avoidance and Institutional Collectivism dimensions show a negative impact on BCIQ development. These intricate results are congruent with previous studies. We discuss them under the light of the Social Learning Theory, the nature of cultural distance and empirical studies that confirm contextual characteristics of cultures.Originality / value –We presenttwo main contributions to International Business. Firstly, we map business cultural intelligence quotient globally with our BCIQ Index40; secondly, we employ environmental antecedents, e.g. cultural distance, to explain BCIQ variation among countries.Keywords: Business Cultural Intelligence Quotient, cultural distance, Mahalanobis distance multicultural background, GLOBE, cultural intelligence, C

The nascence of a springboard subsidiary: drivers of the evolution of a subsidiary role

The aim of this study is to explore the drivers of the evolution of a subsidiary's strategic role from an ordinary subsidiary into a springboard subsidiary in multinational corporations, paying special attention to the role of subsidiary management in this transformation (...

The links between international production and innovation: a double network approach

This paper examines the changing role of multinationals in the global generation, adoption and transfer of innovation. It is argued that the combination of traditional asset exploiting objectives with increasing asset seeking activities entails a transition of multinationals towards a double network structure. On the one hand multinationals are more and more characterised by the interconnection of a large number of internal units that are deeply involved in the company’s use, generation and absorption of knowledge. On the other hand, units belonging to the internal network tend to develop external networks with other firms and institutions that are located outside the boundaries of the multinational firm, in order to increase the potential for use, generation and absorption of knowledge. Extending the analysis to a more general level, it is suggested that each of the external actors with which multinationals are interconnected across countries are themselves involved in extensive webs of relationships with other firms and institutions. By becoming embedded in different local contexts, multinational firms act as bridging institutions connecting a number of geographically dispersed economic and innovation systems. As a result, they are conditioned by, and contribute to, the evolution of different contexts in which they operate.innovation, multinational firms, networks.

The Strategic Assembly of Global Firms: A Micro-Structural Analysis of Local Learning and Global Adaptation

Strategic Assembly - the comprehensive and coordinated use of internal development, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and alliances - is a novel approach to the construction and management of global firms. This paper describes the role and characteristics of strategic assembly in the construction and management of the Global Multi-Business Firm, an emerging form of global organization. We present a study of Group Renault and its relationship with two key players in the lucrative and emerging market for autos in Turkey, emphasizing the coevolutionary processes through which local players enter and dominate a local market and the global parent, utilizing local learning and organization, adapts to the global environment. We conclude with a call to action for research on the relationship between the strategic logic of global assemblers and the strategies of the firms at multiple levels of analysis

The Industrialisation Process of Asian Small and Medium Firms

National governments throughout the Asia-Pacific Region have identified small and medium enterprises as an important source of economic growth and employment. In the past, SME business strategies have focused on production, relying on their subcontracting and sales contacts with large firms for technological innovation and marketing and on abundant domestic labour forces for comparative advantage. Recently, structural problems in the region arising from the Japanese recession, currency appreciation and rising labour costs have upset these relationships forcing SMEs to move offshore (DFI) to restore cost competitiveness and to upgrade their internal technological and organisational capacities to international standards in order to compete for contracts within more open, international markets. This paper analyses this process of change, analysing the development of SMEs within four Asian countries using a six stage evolutionary model. The majority of SMEs in these countries are still in the earlier second (dependency) or third (internalisation) stages. The more advanced SMEs have moved into the fourth (externalisation) stage, where firms develop independent technology and marketing capacities. To the extent that localisation (stage five) had occurred, it involved local embedded relationships which had limited scope for further internationalisation. Little evidence of regional integration or networking among SMEs was found.Asia-Pacific, industrialisation process, Asian small and medium enterprises