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In search of confidence: Context,collaboration, and constraints   总被引:7,自引:7,他引:0  
The development of any field of scientific inquiry involves global scholarly conversations. While we agree with Meyer’s (2006) key tenets, we extend his discussion of Asia management scholars’ need for self-confidence by exploring the role of context, collaboration, and constraints in global scholarly discourse. In particular, we highlight the need for consideration of multi-level context, the development of theories that are good for local stakeholders’ management practice and technology-facilitated and super-institutional collaboration. We illustrate our arguments for the development, legitimization, and institutionalization of Asia Pacific management research with examples from management and other scholarly disciplines in Australia, China, Europe, and North America.
Siri TerjesenEmail:

Xiaohua Yang   (PhD, University of Kansas) is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at Queensland University of Technology. She leads the China study tour and has presented and published her work in leading management journals and conferences around the world. She has taught in the United States, Australia, Mainland China, and Taiwan and has lectured in Europe. She is a co-editor for Asia Pacific Journal of Management’s special issue on Varieties of Asian Capitalism: Indigenization and Internationalization. Her research interests are in the areas of global strategy, expatriate management and corporate social responsibility. Her current research is on internationalization of firms in emerging markets. Siri Terjesen   (PhD, Cranfield University) is a Senior Lecturer in the Brisbane Graduate School of Business at Queensland University of Technology and a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Economics in Jena, Germany. She has published her international research in the Strategic Management Journal, Small Business Economics, and other journals. She is a member of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. In the northern summers, she teaches entrepreneurship at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Peking University. Her research interests include strategy and entrepreneurship.  相似文献   

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This paper examines the impact of state shares on corporate innovation strategy and performance in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Through an investigation of 541 publicly traded companies in five high-tech industries during the period between 2000 and 2005, we find that the presence of state shares have a positive effect on the corporate choice of a process innovation strategy over a product innovation one. However, this relationship is moderated by the overall ownership concentration ratio. Moreover, our findings suggest that companies with large state shares prefer to conduct innovations independently rather than collaboratively with others, and they usually achieve better innovation performance. These findings indicate that the government play a role as both an investor and a resource allocation coordinator and therefore complicate the relationship between ownership structure and corporate innovation activities.
Han Zhang (Corresponding author)Email:

Erming Xu   (PhD, Renmin University of China) is a professor of management at the School of Business in Renmin University of China. His research interests include corporate governance mechanisms and performance in China, state shares with corporate innovation strategy, Asian business strategy in the emerging markets. His work has appeared in premier journals such as Management World, China Industrial Economy, etc. He is editor of Management Review, Nankai Business Review, R&D Management, Chinese Journal of Management, and Economic Management. He serves as the associate chair of the Chinese Academy of Business Management, and also an independent director of China Telecom Corporation Limited. Han Zhang   (PhD, Capital University of Economics and Business) is a lecturer of management at School of Business Management in Capital University of Economics and Business. Her research interests include strategic management and innovation. Her work has appeared in Economic Theory and Business Management and Contemporary Finance & Economics.  相似文献   

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Business groups in East Asia: Post-crisis restructuring and new growth   总被引:9,自引:7,他引:2  
Business groups played an important role in the economic development of East Asian countries. Yet business groups in East Asia face an uncertain future. Following the Asian Crisis, foreign creditors and investors have demanded that business groups have more transparent operations and stronger corporate governance. At the same time, as governments in East Asia have loosened trade barriers, business groups have become subject to intense competition in domestic markets. This paper argues that business groups can survive or even prosper by taking initiatives in corporate restructuring. This paper also highlights some areas for further research on business groups in this region.
Sea-Jin ChangEmail:

Sea-Jin Chang   is currently Kumho Asiana Group Chaired Professor of Business Administration, Korea University. He received his PhD in management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, he was a faculty member of New York University. He also had visiting appointments at Stanford, INSEAD, and London Business School. Professor Chang is primarily interested in the management of diversified multinational enterprises. His research interests include diversification, corporate restructuring, foreign direct investment organizational learning, corporate growth through joint ventures and acquisitions, and comparative management studies of Japan, Korea and China.  相似文献   

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This study examines the dynamic relationships between product and international diversification, keiretsu financing, and economic performance of the listed firms in Japan’s textile industry. Panel data analysis shows that the performance effects of those strategic factors are contingent on macroeconomic environments, rather than showing consistent relationships. The potentially positive or negative effects of particular diversification strategies and keiretsu financing are neutralized in the munificent environments, as exogenous macroeconomic factors overwhelm endogenous decision-making by the management. In the scarce setting, by contrast, it is those strategic factors that influence financial outcomes. Keiretsu financing moderates the relationship between international diversification strategy and profitability positively only during times of economic scarcity.
Asli M. ColpanEmail:

Asli M. Colpan   (PhD, Kyoto Institute of Technology and Kyoto University) is currently Research Fellow at the Institute for Technology, Enterprise and Competitiveness, Doshisha University and Senior Research Associate at the Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University. Her research interests include corporate strategy, corporate governance and especially the evolution of large enterprises in industrial and emerging economies. Her work has been published in such journals as Industrial and Corporate Change, Asian Business and Management and The Kyoto Economic Review.  相似文献   

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Real options and MNE strategies in Asia Pacific   总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0  
Asia Pacific offers a lot of promising growth opportunities, but it also presents high levels of uncertainty for multinational enterprises (MNEs). In this paper, we introduce real options theory as a theory of investment under uncertainty, and we discuss its implications for MNEs and their strategies with a focus on the emerging economies in Asia Pacific. We suggest that MNEs must recognize the various sources of uncertainty, as well as the various options embedded in their investments, and real options theory can help them structure and design their investments to benefit from uncertainty. In particular, MNEs need to develop the dynamic capabilities of managing real options in their investments to respond to the evolving economic and institutional environment in the region. This paper also provides several implications for policy makers in Asia Pacific to stimulate investment activities in the region and to help their firms venture successfully in the international market place.
Jing LiEmail:

Tony W. Tong   is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado. He obtained his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. His current research applies real options theory to study firms’ corporate development activities and growth initiatives. His research in these areas has been published or accepted in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of International Business Studies, and Organization Science. Jing Li   is an Assistant Professor of International Business at the Faculty of Business Administration at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Her research focuses on alliance activities in China, capability building of Chinese firms, and applications of real options theory to international strategy. Her research in these areas has appeared in the Journal of World Business, Advances in Strategic Management, and Managerial and Decision Economics.  相似文献   

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A growing number of Western-educated management PhD graduates are starting their academic career in Chinese business schools. While opportunities are abundant for these returnees, they also face the choice between developing internationally transferable assets and building locally embedded competences. Some possible solutions are discussed, at both personal and institutional levels.
Dean XuEmail:

Dean Xu   (PhD, York University) is an associate professor of strategy and international business at School of Business, the University of Hong Kong. Previously, he was on the faculty of Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. His research interests include multinational enterprises, Chinese firm strategy, and the competitive advantages of foreign and local firms in China. His research has been published or accepted at the Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Strategic Management Journal, and other management journals.  相似文献   

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The growth of outward investment from China has generated expressions of concern from policymakers in the United States regarding the economic and national security impacts of such investments. While inward foreign direct investment (FDI) has come to be viewed by most observers as generally imparting net economic benefits to the host economy, acquisitions of US companies by Chinese multinational companies (MNCs) have been criticized on several grounds. One is based on the mode of entry itself: some critics believe that entry by acquisition brings lower benefits than greenfield entry. A second and more prominent concern is that acquisitions of US companies by Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) may be motivated by non-commercial objectives which, in turn, make those acquisitions of questionable value to the host economy. In this paper, we argue that Chinese FDI in the United States is more likely to take the form of acquisitions than greenfield investments for the foreseeable future. However, there is no strong case to be made that the host country economic benefits from Chinese FDI would be larger if entry took place primarily through greenfield investments. Furthermore, most of the alleged costs to the US economy from inward FDI from China are either unlikely to occur or are already anticipated by existing US laws and regulations, thus necessitating no additional, specific legislation.
Daniel ShapiroEmail:

Steve Globerman   (PhD, New York University) is the Kaiser Professor of International Business in the College of Business and Economics at Western Washington University. His research interests focus on international trade and direct investment determinants and effects, as well as public policies toward trade and direct investment. He has published widely on these and other topics and has consulted for various companies and international organizations including The World Bank and the OECD. Daniel Shapiro   (PhD, Cornell University) is the Dean and Lohn Professor in the Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University. His research focuses on MNEs and foreign direct investment, corporate performance and strategy, and corporate ownership and governance. His research has been published in Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, and Journal of Industrial Economics, among others. He has served as a consultant to various organizations in the public and private sectors in the areas of foreign investment, mergers, competition policy, strategy and industrial policy.  相似文献   

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Japanese horizontal keiretsu and the performance implications of membership   总被引:4,自引:2,他引:2  
Our study investigates the effect of Japanese horizontal keiretsu group membership on firm risk and return. Like prior studies, our results show that horizontal keiretsu membership has a negative effect on firm profitability. However, we find that horizontal keiretsu networks are likely to increase the gap between targeted and realized returns, which we call the outcome–aspiration gap. Moreover, in contrast to prior studies, our results indicate that keiretsu membership does not enable member firms to reduce risks by smoothing profitability. Instead, our findings provide evidence that is counter to the conventional notion that Japanese horizontal keiretsu allows their member firms to trade off profits for reduced risk.
Anthony GoerzenEmail:

Takehiko Isobe   is Professor of Management at the Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, Kobe University. He received his PhD from Keio University. His research interests include the effects of search behavior and strategic changes on corporate performance. He has published his research in the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, and Journal of International Business Studies. His research received the 2004 Best Paper Awards from the Asia Academy of Management. Shige Makino   is Professor at the Department of Management in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD from the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario. His current research focuses on investigating the effects of non-economic factors on economic activities in international business practices. His research has appeared in leading journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, and Organization Science among others. He is the vice president of the Association of Japanese Business Studies and has been serving as editorial board member in many international journals. Anthony Goerzen   earned his PhD from the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario. His research interests center on multinational enterprises, more specifically the organizational and performance effects of interfirm networks, cross-border alliances, and geographic locations. He has published his research in the Strategic Management Journal, Management International Review, Academy of Management Executive, and Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Aside from several book chapters, he has also written a book entitled Networks and Location based on his doctoral thesis which won the Udayan Rege Best Dissertation Award 2000–2002 (a biannual PhD thesis competition held by the Administrative Science Association of Canada) and was selected into the final four of the Gunnar Hedlund Best Dissertation Award 2002 (sponsored by the Institute of International Business and the European International Business Association) as well as the Barry Richman Best Dissertation Award 2002 (sponsored by the Academy of Management).  相似文献   

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The development of entrepreneurship in China   总被引:2,自引:1,他引:1  
In this paper, we provide an overview of the extant research on the development of entrepreneurship in China. This research focus is a relatively recent phenomenon since China’s market transition started from late 1978. We review the literature over the 26 years from 1980 through 2005, as published in 11 leading English-language academic journals. We identify 68 articles from this review and analyze them based on the research subjects, methods, and firm types. From this review, and integrating with research on market transitions, we propose a three-stage model of market transitions that has important implications for entrepreneurship research in transition economies.
Jiatao LiEmail:

Jing Yu Yang   (PhD, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology) is Assistant professor of international business discipline at The University of Sydney. Her current research interests include management and organization issues in emerging economies, entrepreneurship, MNC strategy, organizational learning and change, and inter-firm networks. Jiaotao Li   (PhD, University of Texas at Dallas) is Professor and Head of the Department of Management of Organizations, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His current research interests are in the areas of strategy, organization theory, and entrepreneurship, with a focus on issues related to global firms and those from emerging economies. Professor Li has published in journals such as The Academy of Management Journal, The Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and Journal of International Business Studies.  相似文献   

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Change and continuity in Japanese corporate governance   总被引:7,自引:5,他引:2  
Previous studies on Japanese corporate governance were largely based on the agency theory framework, and can be seen as attempts to understand the unique monitoring mechanisms in the Japanese context. This paper briefly reviews prior research and then discusses the recent changes in the environment that have been affecting Japanese corporate governance. Our central argument is that there is both change and continuity in Japanese Corporate Governance. We also present emerging research from an institutional theory perspective. In this line of research, corporate governance is treated as part of a nation’s institutional framework and hence, researchers need to understand unique institutional arrangements that affect corporate governance practices and their change or continuity.
Jean McGuireEmail:

Toru Yoshikawa   (PhD, York University) is Associate Professor of International Business and Strategic Management at DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University. His main research interest is corporate governance, especially its relation to corporate strategy and performance in large publicly listed firms and in family-owned firms. His research has been published or is forthcoming in such journals as the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Venturing, and Asia Pacific Journal of Management. This is Professor Yoshikawa’s 4th contribution to APJM. Jean McGuire   (PhD, Cornell University) is the William Rucks IV Professor of Management at the E. J. Ourso College of Business, Louisiana State University. Her research interests are corporate governance, including executive compensation, transparency and disclosure, and patterns of ownership. Her research has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, and Asia Pacific Journal of Management. This is Professor McGuire’s 2nd contribution to APJM.  相似文献   

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This commentary on Klaus Meyer’s article, “Asian Management Research Needs More Self-confidence,” in the Asia Pacific Journal of Management (2006), discusses the need for Asian management research to look beyond the pressures for publication in top-tier, Western scholarly academic journals. We reflect on our nearly two decades of research on Russian management to illustrate many of Meyer’s ideas and insights in a different transition economy. We support his call for more context-specific research that can also offer contributions to global management knowledge as well as indigenous management practice.
Daniel J. McCarthyEmail:

Sheila M. Puffer   (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is Professor of International Business at Northeastern University, and a Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University. A former editor of The Academy of Management Executive, her research and publications focus primarily on management in Russia’s transition economy. Her more than 150 publications include numerous journal articles, as well as books including The Russian Management Revolution, Business and Management in Russia, The Russian Capitalist Experiment, and Corporate Governance in Russia. She also holds a diploma from the Plekhanov Institute of the National Economy, Moscow. Daniel J. McCarthy   (DBA, Harvard University) is the Alan S. McKim and Richard A. D’Amore Distinguished Professor of Global Management and Innovation at Northeastern University, and is a Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University. His research and publications center on strategic management, entrepreneurship, and corporate governance, particularly in Russia’s transition economy. He has more than 85 publications, including numerous journal articles, and four editions of Business Policy and Strategy, as well as Business and Management in Russia, The Russian Capitalist Experiment, and Corporate Governance in Russia.  相似文献   

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In this article we reflect on the adolescent years of Asia management research published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Management (APJM) by reviewing work published in the past 10 years (1997–2006). We report that during the last decade, APJM has published 223 research articles, written by 373 different authors, who are affiliated with 203 different institutions. Our discussion of the future of Asia management research is guided by Kuhn’s (Kuhn, T. S. The structure of scientific revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962) perspective on the nonlinear progression of science. We argue that as a growing community, Asia management research is finding its “identity” and establishing its presence in the larger worldwide management research community. Following our analysis, we conclude that the growth of Asia management research—as captured by APJM publications—throughout its “adolescent” years has set forth a challenging and exciting path for the future. All authors contributed equally. We thank Mike Peng (Editor-in-Chief) for his encouragement and advice. This work was completed when Yu-Shan Su was a Fulbright visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). She thanks the Fulbright Association and the Taiwanese Ministry of Education for partially funding this work.
Erin G. Pleggenkuhle-MilesEmail:
Ramya R. AroulEmail:
Sunny Li SunEmail:
Yu-Shan Su (Corresponding author)Email:

Erin G. Pleggenkuhle-Miles   is a PhD student in International Management Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her research interests include institutional effects on firm strategies and rural entrepreneurship. Ramya R. Aroul   is a PhD student in International Management Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her research interests include organization strategy and evolution of new industries in emerging economies and rural entrepreneurship. Sunny Li Sun   is a PhD student in International Management Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. His research interests include strategy on internationalization, M&A, alliance network and innovation. Yu-Shan Su   (PhD, National Taiwan University) is Assistant Professor of International Business at Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan, Taiwan. During 2006–07, she was a Fulbright visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her research interests are innovation and knowledge management in organizations and R&D management in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry.  相似文献   

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“Asian Management Research Needs More Self-confidence” (Meyer, 2006) generated a surprisingly extended and diverse set of responses from Asia and beyond. In this rejoinder, I draw together a few lines of arguments that have emerged in that debate with the aim of moving the debate—and thus Asian management research agendas—forward. In particular, I argue that context is a crucial variable to explain management behavior, yet for practical reasons, it has been neglected in research published in top journals. Thus, I challenge management scholars in Asia and beyond to devise new research strategies to enhance our understanding of the contextual boundaries of our knowledge.
Klaus E. MeyerEmail: URL: www.klausmeyer.co.uk

Klaus E. Meyer   (PhD, London Business School) is currently Professor of Strategy and International Business at the University of Bath. He has previously served 8 years on the faculty of Copenhagen Business School, and held visiting appointments at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and National Cheng-chi University, Taipei. His research focuses on the strategies of multinational enterprises in emerging economies, especially foreign entry and growth strategies in Eastern Europe and East Asia. He has a personal website at . This is Professor Meyer’s third contribution to APJM.  相似文献   

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Self-confidence does not come isolated from the environment   总被引:6,自引:6,他引:0  
A smart way to build confidence is to gain the most success within the constraints of the environment. Trying things that the infrastructures fail to support may bring more frustration than confidence. Out of this consideration, Asian researchers might have concentrated on “original equipment manufacturing” type of research—exporting their research to the larger, Western market—in the past due to limited resources and colonial governance. However, with the change in environment, Asian researchers have to undo their old beliefs and participate in building infrastructures that facilitate original and advanced research in management.
Kevin AuEmail:

Kevin Au   (PhD, University of British Columbia) is an Associate Professor of Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and serves as an associate director for the MBA program and Centre for Entrepreneurship. His research interests span across micro and macro issues in global management, social network, entrepreneurship, and research methodology. He serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals and conducts consulting projects for business and government organizations. This is Professor Au’s third contribution to APJM.  相似文献   

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Venture capital in China: Past,present, and future   总被引:8,自引:6,他引:2  
This article reviews the literature on venture capital in China and examines where China’s venture capital industry has been and where it is likely to go in the future. Since the 1980s, venture capital in China has grown steadily alongside the robust national economy. The future is likely to offer even greater opportunities, as entrepreneurs are encouraged and property rights improve. However, there will also be a period of transition as the market continues to mature and as new legal structures and commercial arrangements emerge. Venture capital in China has many interesting differences from that in Western countries. The venture capital industry is shaped by the institutional context and China is no exception to this. This article also examines some specific differences between the system in China and that of the United States. Future prospects for venture capital are also appraised as China continues its transition to a market economy.
Kuang S. YehEmail:

David Ahlstrom   (PhD, New York University) is a professor in the Management Department at The Chinese University of Hong Kong where he has taught for 11 years in international management and human resources. His research interests include international management and entrepreneurship in emerging economies. Professor Ahlstrom has published over 50 refereed articles in publications such as The Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Business Venturing, and Asia Pacific Journal of Management where he is currently a senior editor. Garry D. Bruton   (PhD, Oklahoma) is a professor of entrepreneurship at the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University. His research focuses on entrepreneurship in emerging markets. He has published over 50 academic articles in journals such as The Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, and Asia Pacific Journal of Management. Professor Bruton has also co-authored two textbooks published by Thomson-Southwestern. He is currently an associate editor of the Academy of Management Perspectives and is a senior editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management. Kuang S. Yeh   (PhD, Carnegie Mellon) is a professor and chairman of the Department of Business Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. His areas of interest are in organization theory, corporate governance, business ethics, and entrepreneurship and venture capital. Professor Yeh has published in journals such as the Journal of World Business, International Business Review and a number of academic journals in Taiwan. He is currently studying issues of firm growth and change in China’s and Taiwan’s private enterprises.  相似文献   

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We consider the effect of national culture and corporate culture differences on the management of international strategic alliances (ISAs). Findings are based on the perceptions of a relatively large sample of Chinese partner firms in ISAs with foreign partners. We find that differences in national culture and corporate culture have contributed to a similar extent to differing views on ISA management. However, findings indicate that differences in national culture and corporate culture have a differential impact on aspects of ISA management. Perception of national culture and corporate culture differences and the contribution of those differences to differing views on the management of ISAs are greater in relatively younger ISAs compared with older ISAs. Managers in equity-based ISAs report fewer problems with culture related impediments to managing ISAs than managers in non-equity-based ISAs.
Keith W. GlaisterEmail:

Li Dong   is a Lecturer in International Business at School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London. He received his MSc in International Management from University of Reading, UK. He previously worked in a major global bank in China, and holds a professional certification in International Banking. His current research interests include strategic and managerial issues pertaining to international strategic alliances, the management of multinational enterprises, direct foreign investment, and business strategies in China. Keith W. Glaister   is Dean of the Management School, University of Sheffield, and Professor of International Strategic Management. His main research focus is on the analysis of the formation, partner selection, management and performance of international joint ventures and strategic alliances.  相似文献   

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This paper examines the antecedents of felt trust, an under-explored area in the trust literature. We hypothesized that subordinates’ felt trust would relate positively with their leaders’ moral leadership behaviors and negatively with autocratic leadership behaviors and demographic differences between leaders and themselves. We also hypothesized the above relationships to be mediated by the leader-member value congruence. Results supported our hypotheses that value congruence mediated between autocratic leadership behaviors and demographic differences and subordinates’ felt trust, but not moral leadership behaviors, which had direct effects on subordinates’ perception of feeling trusted. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
Ping Ping FuEmail:

Dora C. Lau   (PhD, University of British Columbia) is an assistant professor of management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include demographic diversity and faultlines, rational trust, team dynamics, chain store management, and Chinese management. Her current research projects include faultline dynamics in small teams, trust reciprocity within vertical dyads, and the relationship between leadership and trust networks. Jun Liu   (PhD, Chinese University of Hong Kong) is an assistant professor in the OB and HR Department, School of Business, Renmin University of China. His research interests include leadership, psychological contact and research methods in managament. Ping Ping Fu   (PhD, State University of New York, Albany) is an associate professor of management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests are mainly in executive leadership. She is the coordinator for the Chinese part of the Global Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness (GLOBE) project.  相似文献   

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This commentary evaluates the problems associated with creating rankings of individuals and institutions in International Business. It argues that the many—potentially arbitrary—decisions involved make the creation of rankings a hazardous affair. I would like to thank the APJM Editor-in-Chief Mike Peng for inviting me to write this commentary, Shichun Xu, Goksel Yalcinkaya and Steven Seggie for providing me with the impetus to articulate some concerns that have been growing in my mind in the past years, and David Griffith for kindly responding to my email when I raised some of the concerns in this commentary. For a full discussion of the broader issue of academics rankings and evaluation, see “Everyone can be a winner: The sense and nonsense of academic rankings” [pending publication].
Anne-Wil HarzingEmail:

Anne-Wil Harzing   (PhD, University of Bradford) is professor in international management at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include international HRM, expatriate management, HQ-subsidiary relationships, cross-cultural management and the role of language in international business. She has published about these topics in journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Organizational Behaviour, Strategic Management Journal, Human Resource Management, and Organization Studies. Her books include Managing the Multinationals (Edward Elgar, 1999) and International Human Resource Management (Sage, 2004). Since 1999, she also maintains an extensive website () with resources for international and cross-cultural management as well as academic publishing and bibliometrics.  相似文献   

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This paper introduces competitive dynamics research, a body of work that has emerged in the strategic management field over the last two decades. I will focus on my scholarly pursuit—both the substance and the process—during the early years of my faculty career. I will use my twelve core publications written during this period to outline the entire research program, highlight the makeup of each of the four sub-streams of the program, and show how these streams are linked. I will also share my personal learning in the process of building this research program. The paper aims to convey some firsthand experience for researchers and scholars, especially those starting in their careers and international scholars who are interested in publishing in major U.S.-based journals, so they can construct their own research programs and cope with the manifold process challenges in research and publishing.
Ming-Jer ChenEmail:

Ming-Jer Chen   (PhD, University of Maryland) is the Leslie E. Grayson Professor of Business Administration at the Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia. His research interests include business strategy and competitive dynamics. Dr. Chen’s articles have appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Management Science, and he has received the Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management's Business Policy and Strategy (BPS) Division and the Academy of Management Review Best Paper Award (1996). He is an associate editor of the Academy of Management Review and a member of the editorial boards of Organization Science and Strategic Management Journal.  相似文献   

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Risk and capital structure in Asian project finance   总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1  
We develop and test hypotheses derived from a multi-level theoretical framework for understanding factors shaping the credit risk and capital structure of a quintessentially Asian form of investment known as project finance. It differs from other corporate financing approaches. A project company is separate and bankruptcy remote from the investing firm sponsors that create it. The project company relies extensively on debt capital provided by creditors to fund project operations. Creditors provide more (less) debt as a percentage of overall project capital when there is less (more) risk of project failure and non-repayment. We define a target risk framework identifying country-, industry-, syndicate-, firm-, and project-related factors shaping Asian project finance company credit risk and thus, project debt. In a sample of 238 project finance companies announced in 13 Asian countries from 1995–2004, we observe substantial effects on project capital structure with respect to country-level factors linked to institutional and macroeconomic theories, syndicate structure factors linked to agency theory, and lead sponsor experience and project size factors linked to learning and transaction cost theories. We argue that these and other determinants of project finance company credit risk and capital structure in Asia since the mid-1990s anticipate similar relationships now emerging elsewhere around the globe.
Ruth V. AguileraEmail:

Paul M. Vaaler   (PhD, University of Minnesota) is associate professor of international business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He studies firm strategy and performance stability in turbulent industries. His current research focuses on risk and investment behavior by firms and individuals active in emerging-market countries experiencing economic and political modernization. Barclay James   is a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He studies transaction cost economics in syndicate-based firms. His dissertation research examines the structure of project-finance companies in energy and extractive industries, and transaction cost factors affecting risk and contractual relationships between project syndicate members and project “off-takers” committed to buying project outputs at pre-set quantities and or prices. Ruth V. Aguilera   (PhD, Harvard University) is associate professor of business administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She studies comparative corporate governance regimes and institutional factors shaping international investment by firms. Her current research focuses on the social responsibility of firms under differing corporate governance regimes, and the impact of country regional groupings on firm investment decisions.  相似文献   

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