Occupational Stress and Mental Health: A Longitudinal Study in High-Stress Professions

This long-term study looks at the complicated link between job stress and mental health in people who have high-stress jobs. The study takes a broad method to figure out how movement changes over time because it knows that work demands have a big effect on people's health and happiness. By carefully choosing high-stress fields like law enforcement, emergency services, and healthcare, the study aims to find the link between low-stress factors in these settings and long-lasting effects on mental health. Get both numeric and personal information This method not only finds similar sources of stress, like problems at work, disagreements with others, and difficult emotions like sadness, but it also looks at how people deal with these problems. The data should help us understand how complicatedly work-related stress and mental health are connected, and they might also shed light on possible ways to avoid stress and help people who are experiencing it. The talk will look at what works in high-stress jobs and make suggestions for changes to the workplace and programs to help with mental health. Even though the study has some flaws, it hopes to serve as a starting point for more research that aims to create healthier workplaces in high-stress fields

Chinese multinationals: host country factors and foreign direct investment location

The study of Chinese multinationals (MNEs) is becoming one of the most promising research topics in the international business literature. After outlining the distinctive characteristics of the internationalization process of Chinese MNEs, this chapter analyzes the influence of various host country factors on the location of Chinese outward foreign direct investment (FDI). From a sample of 189 outward FDI decisions made by 35 mainland Chinese firms in 63 countries, our results show that host market size and the existence of overseas Chinese in the host country are positively associated with the number of Chinese FDIs. However, greater difficulty in doing business and host country political risk have no effect

Internalisation Theory and outward direct investment by emerging market multinationals

The rise of multinational enterprises from emerging countries (EMNEs) poses an important test for theories of the multinational enterprise such as internalisation theory. It has been contended that new phenomena need new theory. This paper proposes that internalisation theory is appropriate to analyse EMNEs. This paper examines four approaches to EMNEs—international investment strategies, domestic market imperfections, international corporate networks and domestic institutions—and three case studies—Chinese outward FDI, Indian foreign acquisitions and investment in tax havens—to show the enduring relevance and predictive power of internalisation theory. This analysis encompasses many other approaches as special cases of internalisation theory. The use of internalisation theory to analyse EMNEs is to be commended, not only because of its theoretical inclusivity, but also because it has the ability to connect and to explain seemingly desperate phenomena

Run Away or Stick Together? The Impact of Organization-Specific Adverse Events on Alliance Partner Defection

Alliances are inter-organizational relationships wherein partners agree to engage in joint action and share benefits and burdens. But when might an adverse event that strikes one partner become too burdensome for another partner? Extant theories of alliance instability provide incomplete answers, which is problematic: for stricken organizations, anticipating whether their non-stricken partners will remain in the alliance can be essential for survival. Integrating insights from alliance dynamics and organizational stigma literatures, we theorize how an organization-specific adverse event affects a non-stricken partner's decision to continue with or defect from an alliance by considering factors that shift the balance between cohesive and disruptive forces. We propose that high stigmatization risk will increase the probability of partner defection through two disruptive mechanisms: relational uncertainty and stigma anxiety. Building on the idea that the same factors contributing to alliance formation may also condition partner defection, we theorize about the roles of partner resource interdependencies, relational embeddedness, and perceived partner similarity in amplifying or attenuating disruptive mechanisms triggered by an adverse event. We extend the research on partner defection and alliance instability by advancing an event-based view of alliance instability and specifying the conditions under which an alliance partner might defect

Determinants of alliance duration in uncertain environments: The case of the biotechnology sector

10.1016/S0024-6301(03)00041-4Long Range Planning363269-28

Internationalization and performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises

10.1016/j.jwb.2007.11.009Journal of World Business434475-48