How much does domestic location matter for B2B firms’ export intensity? A variance decomposition study

Business-to-business (B2B) firms leverage the advantages of their domestic location to export goods and services. However, little empirical research has examined the extent to which domestic location effects explain variation in B2B firms’ export intensity, despite their potentially critical role. In this study, the authors explore this question with a variance decomposition analysis—an approach that allows them to quantitatively examine the relative contribution of domestic location and other effects on B2B firms’ export intensity. Their analysis uses a large longitudinal sample of 7,465 European B2B firms over 15 years (2004–2018). Splitting domestic location effects into the home country and subnational region (a geographic space within a country) effects, they find that each explains a substantial portion of the variation in export intensity. Notably, the results show that the examined effects are more critical for small and medium-sized enterprises than for larger B2B firms. Domestic location factors also matter more for B2B manufacturing than service firms. The findings enhance scholarly and managerial understanding of the application and predictive power of domestic location effects in explaining firm internationalization through exports

How do strategic alliance formations create shareholder value? An application of the event study methodology in the B2B context

By announcing the formation of business-to-business (B2B) relationships, such as strategic alliances, firms send signals to market observers who form expectations about these firms' future performance, ultimately affecting their shareholder value. The use of an event study methodology enables scholars to gauge the extent of the shareholder value these relationships can create. The role of the present study is twofold. First, we aim to systematically investigate the relationship between strategic alliance formations and firm shareholder value, identifying conditions under which strategic alliances create or even destroy value, including factors related to the firms and alliances as well as their interactions. Our second objective is to explain how B2B marketing researchers can apply the event study methodology in the context of strategic alliances. We provide a detailed explanation of how scholars can apply an event study methodology to strategic alliances, and B2B relationships more broadly, taking into account the research area-specific considerations, such as the appropriate modeling approach, variable coding, and event and estimation windows

Detection of new two-membrane structures in native mitochondria by the method of small-angle scattering of neutrons

The structure of mitochondrial cristas has been studied for the first time by the method of small-angle scattering of thermal neutrons. Experiments were performed on intact functioning rat liver mitochondria. Mitochondrial cristas are usually considered as folds of the internal membrane with arbitrary nonfixed intermembrane distances. It was shown that, under particular conditions, during low-amplitude swelling of mitochondria, cristas are transformed to bimembrane structures, with the distance between the central planes of membranes of 190 E. It was found that the formation of bimembrane structures and their structural parameters do not depend on the method of induction of swelling, by placing the mitochondria into a hypotonic medium or by the opening of nonspecific pores

Social influences in cross-border entrepreneurial migration policy

This paper addresses the possibilities for public policy to stimulate the entrepreneurial perceptions of individuals by leveraging micro-level social influences produced by migrant entrepreneurs. As opposed to the conventional stand according to which entrepreneurial ecosystems can be stimulated by financial, regulative, cognitive and normative mechanisms of influence, the present study suggests that socio-psychological influences enacted by exogenous policy intervention can be used as a mechanism for shifting the entrepreneurial perceptions of individuals. Cross-border entrepreneurial migration is proposed as an instrument for enacting these socio-psychological influences and enabling public policy to benefit from the distinctively different entrepreneurial behaviors of migrant entrepreneurs and local individuals in the host country. The study offers substantial policy implications by extending the theoretical reasoning guiding the stimulation of entrepreneurial ecosystems through public policy intervention,providing discussion of opportunity perception in cross-border context, and offering an alternative socio-economic perspective on the role of migrant entrepreneurs in the economic life of host countries.Peer reviewe