Redundancies in External Relationships of Multinational Corporations – A Firm-Level Conceptual Model

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip C. Nell ◽  
Ulf Andersson ◽  
Björn Ambos
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
External Relationships

HR signals in the context of HRM-firm performance relationship: development of a conceptual framework

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiradip Bandyopadhyay ◽  
Kailash B. L. Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Relationship Development ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to reframe human resources' (HR) systems and practices as HR signals drawing from conceptualizations of signals. The construct of the strength of signal is developed to quantify the attributional ability of HR signals. To examine the role of HR signals in influencing employee behaviours and firm performance, human resource management (HRM)-firm performance relationship is considered as a framework to develop a firm-level conceptual model which integrates factors affecting HR signals and its consequences.Design/methodology/approachThe paper examines the existing literature on the relationship between HRM and firm performance. In the process, the paper considers the concept of HR signal and makes a case for the strength of HR signal. Finally, the paper offers a conceptual model in order to link the antecedents and consequents of HR signals.FindingsThe paper offers a conceptual model to address the gaps in the relationship between HRM and firm performance. It also brings into focus an understanding of HRM as signals and its importance in understanding firm performance.Originality/valueThe paper enriches the existing literature by examining HRM as HR signals. It adds to the literature by considering the attributional ability of HR, through the construct of the strength of HR signals.

Introduction

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Dörrenbächer ◽  
Florian Becker-Ritterspach
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
The Impact

Intrafirm competition, production relocation and outsourcing define crucial ways of organising and reorganising the cross-border operations of multinational corporations. What is more: these organisational activities put severe pressure on established economic coordination and governance both in developed as well as in developing countries. However, despite their organisational, political and economic salience, rather little is known about these processes and in particular about their socio-political dimensions. To this end, the contributions of this special issue aim at exploring, first, who the relevant actors are, what their interests are and how their strategies can be captured in intrafirm competition, production relocation and outsourcing. Second, the contributions discuss the wider socio-economic implications of firm-level processes by discussing, for example, the impact of outsourcing and relocation on employment fragmentation. Finally, the importance of public discourses is highlighted with regard to their role in both legitimating and promoting intrafirm competition, production relocation and outsourcing.

An Investigation into the Benefits of Investing in Chinese Multinational Companies

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Berrill ◽  
Shengkai Sun
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
International Business ◽  
Multinational Companies ◽  
Chinese Firms ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Mean Variance ◽  
Total Sales

We provide a unique longitudinal analysis into firm-level multinationality of Chinese firms between 2002 and 2012 using two measures of multinationality—the Aggarwal, Berrill, Hutson and Kearney (2011, International Business Review, 20, 557–577) system and foreign sales as a percentage of total sales. We find that Chinese firms have low levels of multinationality with most foreign sales in the triad regions of Asia, Europe and North America. We use mean variance spanning tests to investigate the benefits from investing in Chinese multinational corporations (MNCs). We find that Chinese MNCs offer little diversification benefits to domestic investors and firms with greater multinationality levels do not result in greater benefits.

Leveraging Enterprise Resource Planning Systems to Digitize Business Functions

2017 ◽  
pp. 20-46
Author(s):  
Jessy Nair ◽  
D. Bhanu Sree Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Enterprise Resource Planning ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
System Perspective ◽  
Erp System ◽  
Internal Stakeholders

The successful implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is a challenge to many organizations. Though an intervention, ERP brings in large scale tangible and intangible benefits to an organization. It poses significant intervention on firm level endogenous dimensions; internal stakeholders, internal organization, business processes and technology. Though literature recognizes that ERP intervention brings about technological change during ERP implementation, hardly any article has conceptualized these interventions in evaluating its performance. Drawing on the Socio Technical system perspective the objective of this article is to conceptualize the ERP intervention on the endogenous dimensions of the organization and develop a comprehensive conceptual model to assess the success or failure of ERP system implementation. The conceptual model, Process-Variance and Adapted Socio-Technical (PVAST), proposed in this article will enable decision makers and practitioners to measure ERP project performance at every stage of its life cycle in a coherent method and adopt corrective measures.

A Conceptual Model of Manufacturing Focus

1993 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecil C. Bozarth
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Flexible Manufacturing ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Manufacturing Organizations ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact

Despite the importance given to manufacturing focus in the literature, the subject area continues to suffer from three interrelated problems: lack of agreement with regard to the meaning of “focus” the absence of a conceptual framework for integrating the existing body of research; and uncertainty with regard to the appropriate direction of future research. These problems should be addressed if the focus literature is to continue to mature, and if the true role of focus is to be understood in the light of the “newer” strategic imperatives, such as time‐based competition and flexible manufacturing. Introduces a conceptual model of focus specifically designed in response to these problems. The conceptual model identifies three distinct dimensions of focus, and relates these to the competitive factors facing manufacturing organizations. It is designed specifically to serve as a tool with which researchers and managers can discuss the impact of focus at the firm level. A review of key works in manufacturing focus is also included to justify the structure of the model, and to show how the model integrates previous conceptual and empirical research on focus.

scholarly journals Transfer Pricing by Multinational Firms: New Evidence from Foreign Firm Ownerships

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 170-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anca D. Cristea ◽  
Daniel X. Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Multinational Firms ◽  
Transfer Pricing ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Profit Shifting ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Tax Returns ◽  
Triple Difference ◽  
Downward Bias

Using a firm-level dataset of Danish exports between 1999–2006, we find robust evidence for profit shifting by multinational corporations. Our triple difference estimations exploit the response of export unit values to acquisitions of foreign affiliates and to changes in statutory corporate tax rates. This identification strategy corrects for a downward bias resulting from firms adjusting arm's length prices to obscure transfer price manipulations. We find that Danish multinationals reduce the unit values of their exports to low tax countries between 5.7 to 9.1 percent. This difference corresponds to a tax revenue loss of 3.24 percent of Danish multinationals' tax returns. (JEL D21, D22, F14, F23, H25, H32)

Motivations for Social Partnership and Cluster by MNCs: Conceptual Model Using the Diamond Approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-118
Author(s):  
Yeon W. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Shared Value ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
Creating Shared Value ◽  
Diamond Model ◽  
Corporate Social

The corporate social responsibility (CSR) is no longer a choice and now firms are increasingly engaging in social initiatives by approaching it strategically. There have been many attempts to foster competitiveness for firms’ social engagement and focusing on social partnership and social cluster has been one of the important areas where firms can increase the efficiency in creating shared value. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the multi-sector partnership and cluster. Then, it introduces a new conceptual model for multinational corporations’ motivations and benefits in engaging in multi-sector collaboration by incorporating the diamond model. This paper shows that social partnership or cluster can be more synergized and facilitated when understood with the four purposes: efficiencyseeking, solution-seeking, network-seeking, and strategic allianceseeking.

The Distributional Consequences of Preferential Trade Liberalization: Firm-Level Evidence

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Baccini ◽  
Pablo M. Pinto ◽  
Stephen Weymouth
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Trade Agreements ◽  
The United States ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Preferential Trade ◽  
Distributional Consequences

AbstractWhile increasing trade and foreign direct investment, international trade agreements create winners and losers. Our paper examines the distributional consequences of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) at the firm level. We contend that PTAs expand trade among the largest and most productive multinationals by lowering preferential tariffs. We examine data covering the near universe of US foreign direct investment and disaggregated tariff data from PTAs signed by the United States. Our results indicate that US preferential tariffs increase sales to the United States from the most competitive subsidiaries of multinational corporations operating in partner countries. We also find increases in market concentration in partner countries following preferential liberalization with the United States. By demonstrating that the gains from preferential liberalization are unevenly distributed across firms, we shed new light on the firm-level, economic sources of political mobilization over international trade and investment policies.

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