Location and International Strategy Formation

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-87
Author(s):  
Ram Mudambi
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Enterprises ◽  
Research Question ◽  
International Strategy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Knowledge Resources ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Control Dimension ◽  
Key Dimensions ◽  
Location Strategies

By now, it is generally accepted that the two key dimensions of international business (IB) strategy are location and control. Multinational enterprises (MNEs) must therefore decide where to locate their international operations and how to control their activities there. Virtually every research question associated with IB strategy is related to one or both of these dimensions. This chapter will focus on the location dimension, while recognizing that the control dimension is its ever-present complement. Historically, MNEs expanded into international locations in order to seek local, natural resources unavailable in their home countries. However, at present, it is the MNEs’ search for knowledge resources that dominates their location strategies. Over the last decade, the rise of global value chains (GVCs) has become one of the primary factors motivating scholars to integrate insights from IB and economic geography to develop a more holistic view of the location dimension of MNE strategy. We discuss the evolution of key intellectual ideas in the area of IB location strategies to then propose a future research agenda.

scholarly journals (Re)discovering social identity theory: an agenda for multinational enterprise internalization theory

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matevz Raskovic ◽  
K Takacs-Haynes
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Multinational Enterprises ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Internalization Theory ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Research Questions

© 2020, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Firm internalization is a central concept within the business strategy literature, as part of the broader social sciences. The purpose of this paper is to show how and where MNE internalization theory can benefit from a social identity theory (SIT) perspective to better understand 21st-century multinational enterprises (MNEs). Design/methodology/approach: This paper provides a review and future research agenda for the use of SIT related to MNE internalization theory. The authors complement an evolutionary review of SIT literature with a systematic bibliometric analysis identifying specific thematic gaps. Extending Buckley and Casson’s review of and future research agenda for MNE internalization theory, the authors propose three specific future research directions along with eight guiding research questions. Findings: International business (IB) scholars are familiar with limited aspects of SIT and apply it only in certain research areas, mainly connected to human resource management and leadership, organizational identity and work-related outcomes or international marketing. Strategic management and strategy-oriented IB scholars are less familiar with SIT, despite growing interest in MNE micro-foundations and decision-making under uncertainty. Originality/value: The authors position SIT as a natural meta-theoretical fit to MNE internalization theory. By providing a future research agenda along with eight supporting research questions, the authors help to advance the MNE internalization theory by linking individual, group and intergroup perspectives against a more socially nuanced, interactionist and dynamic view of MNEs and their decision-making.

International strategy and business groups: A review and future research agenda

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Michael Holmes ◽  
Robert E. Hoskisson ◽  
Hicheon Kim ◽  
William P. Wan ◽  
Tim R. Holcomb
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Business Groups ◽  
International Strategy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Future Research Agenda

scholarly journals Future Prospects in Balanced Scorecard Research: Sustainability Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 192
Author(s):  
Mehtap Aldogan Eklund
Keyword(s):  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Conceptual Study ◽  
Sustainability Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Interdisciplinary Theory

This paper reviews the state of the research on a balanced scorecard (BSC) and sustainability balanced scorecard (SBSC) from 1990 to 2020. It aims to address the research question, “What are the future prospects in the BSC research from the perspective of sustainability?” using an integrative literature review method with bibliometric analysis. This study also reports the evolution and synthesis of published materials, citation analysis, themes, theories, and the literature gap and future research agenda, including the post coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) sustainability crisis. The findings of this study, which aim to advance the knowledge in the field, include the developed future research framework matrix and the proposed research questions regarding the research gap in the multi­dimensional, multi-disciplinary, and multi-cultural empirical research. This study is considered unique owing to its comprehensive, holistic, and up-to-date structure. Furthermore, such a research design facilitates interdisciplinary, theory-driven research with the review in multiple disciplines, which is new to the accounting literature. One limitation of this study is that it is a conceptual study; however, it can pave the way for future empirical and mixed-method studies in this field. 

scholarly journals Green Organizational Culture: A Review of Literature and Future Research Agenda

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rubab Tahir ◽  
Muhammad Razzaq Athar ◽  
Farida Faisal ◽  
Noor un Nissa Shahani ◽  
Banazir Solangi
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Environmental Reporting ◽  
Environment Friendly ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Future Research Agenda

Due to climatic changes across the globe, alignment of processes and products according to international environment standards is a rising concern for business stakeholders. Though this reform process to minimize environmental impact is occurring across different industries and countries but at a varying pace. Therefore, environmental management is still naïve and often compromised. If it is left unaddressed, it would lead to massive protests and social movements in future which will be messy to deal with, since climate change is occurring at an alarming pace. Moreover, the environmental consciousness is rising among masses, it is inevitable to deceive stakeholders for long time in this information era where controlling information is impossible. Corporate scandals and information/data leaks regarding greenwashing can lead to social protests and corporate defamation. Although in most of the countries environmental reporting is not a legal requirement however it is a societal requirement in different communities. Organizations use obfuscation eco-friendly claims, vague visual imagery, selective disclosure of corporate reports, and misleading communication modes to intentionally portray false environment-friendly claims of poor environmental performance to maintain positive social image by deceiving stakeholders. These symbolic strategic practices have stark difference with the real environmental impact. human resource managers and employees play significant role in developing and implementing such environment friendly organizational culture. Therefore, human resource function can facilitate by designing systems to build green organizational culture in organizations. In this research paper the pre-existing literature on green organizational culture in organizations is be reviewed, since in the last decade many researches were conducted on this issue. This review will give a holistic view of existing literature to the future researchers and will help them to identify research gap. Moreover, it will help practitioners and decision makers in knowing the advantages and disadvantages of green culture in organizations, so that they will understand whole impact of opting it.

Technological transformation, culinary tourism and stakeholder engagement: emerging trends from a systematic literature review

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico Schimperna ◽  
Rosa Lombardi ◽  
Zhanna Belyaeva
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Technological Transformation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Culinary Tourism ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
The Status

Purpose This paper aims to pinpoint the technological transformation impact on food as the cultural phenomenon for destination brand identity and management as the novel approach for the stakeholder causal scope (SCS) analysis in culinary tourism. Thus, this paper attempts to answer the following research question: What is the role of technological transformation in addressing stakeholder engagement of culinary tourism? Design/methodology/approach The research is based on the systematic two-decade literature review of technological transformation for SCS analysis in culinary tourism. This paper adopted a longitudinal study of ABS2018 list – 2-, 3-, 4- and 4*-star journal articles, collecting literature within the field “sector” and Scopus databases as relevant source to collect articles. Findings Following the current severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2 emergency to move certain industries to digital space, including culinary tourism, the main findings are directed to advance technological transformation knowledge in culinary tourism to extend the existing framework on SCS. Originality/value The novelty of this research is confirmed with the contemporary call for technological transformation in culinary tourism assuming that SCS analysis allows examining the status quo and explores future research agenda and practical implications in post-Covid era.

scholarly journals (Re)discovering social identity theory: an agenda for multinational enterprise internalization theory

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matevz Raskovic ◽  
K Takacs-Haynes
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Multinational Enterprises ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Internalization Theory ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Research Questions

© 2020, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Firm internalization is a central concept within the business strategy literature, as part of the broader social sciences. The purpose of this paper is to show how and where MNE internalization theory can benefit from a social identity theory (SIT) perspective to better understand 21st-century multinational enterprises (MNEs). Design/methodology/approach: This paper provides a review and future research agenda for the use of SIT related to MNE internalization theory. The authors complement an evolutionary review of SIT literature with a systematic bibliometric analysis identifying specific thematic gaps. Extending Buckley and Casson’s review of and future research agenda for MNE internalization theory, the authors propose three specific future research directions along with eight guiding research questions. Findings: International business (IB) scholars are familiar with limited aspects of SIT and apply it only in certain research areas, mainly connected to human resource management and leadership, organizational identity and work-related outcomes or international marketing. Strategic management and strategy-oriented IB scholars are less familiar with SIT, despite growing interest in MNE micro-foundations and decision-making under uncertainty. Originality/value: The authors position SIT as a natural meta-theoretical fit to MNE internalization theory. By providing a future research agenda along with eight supporting research questions, the authors help to advance the MNE internalization theory by linking individual, group and intergroup perspectives against a more socially nuanced, interactionist and dynamic view of MNEs and their decision-making.

The Limits of Ego Depletion

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 292-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Wenzel ◽  
Marina Lind ◽  
Zarah Rowland ◽  
Daniela Zahn ◽  
Thomas Kubiak
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Statistical Power ◽  
Interindividual Variability ◽  
Ego Depletion ◽  
Crossover Design ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Depletion Effect ◽  
Within Subjects

Abstract. Evidence on the existence of the ego depletion phenomena as well as the size of the effects and potential moderators and mediators are ambiguous. Building on a crossover design that enables superior statistical power within a single study, we investigated the robustness of the ego depletion effect between and within subjects and moderating and mediating influences of the ego depletion manipulation checks. Our results, based on a sample of 187 participants, demonstrated that (a) the between- and within-subject ego depletion effects only had negligible effect sizes and that there was (b) large interindividual variability that (c) could not be explained by differences in ego depletion manipulation checks. We discuss the implications of these results and outline a future research agenda.

Academic Events: An Empirically Grounded Typology and Their Academic Impact

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Trøst Hansen ◽  
David Budtz Pedersen ◽  
Carmel Foley
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Academic Impact ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Tourism Studies ◽  
Academic Events ◽  
Business Events ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Analytical Frameworks ◽  
Academic Sector

The meetings industry, government bodies, and scholars within tourism studies have identified the need to understand the broader impact of business events. To succeed in this endeavor, we consider it necessary to develop analytical frameworks that are sensitive to the particularities of the analyzed event, sector, and stakeholder group. In this article we focus on the academic sector and offer two connected analyses. First is an empirically grounded typology of academic events. We identify four differentiating dimensions of academic events: size, academic focus, participants, and tradition, and based on these dimensions we develop a typology of academic events that includes: congress, specialty conference, symposium, and practitioners' meeting. Secondly, we outline the academic impact of attending these four types of events. For this purpose, the concept of credibility cycles is used as an analytical framework for examining academic impact. We suggest that academic events should be conceptualized and evaluated as open marketplaces that facilitate conversion of credibility. Data were obtained from interviews with 22 researchers at three Danish universities. The study concludes that there are significant differences between the events in terms of their academic impact. Moreover, the outcome for the individual scholar depends on the investment being made. Finally, the study calls for a future research agenda on beyond tourism benefits based on interdisciplinary collaborations.

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