This paper emphasizes the close interrelatedness among various levels of bargaining in transition economies. Focusing on the Bulgarian case, the author argues that in Bulgaria and other transition economies, neither purely national nor purely company-based bargaining is occurring; instead, the...

With the advancement of the eastern enlargement of the EU, some advocates of the European social model saw enlargement as the ""Trojan horse"" against Europeanization, for the Americanization of Europe. In response, the EU recommended the strengthening of social partnership among business, labor...

This paper emphasizes the close interrelatedness among various levels of bargaining in transition economies. Focusing on the Bulgarian case, the author argues that in Bulgaria and other transition economies, neither purely national nor purely company-based bargaining is occurring; instead, the...

The treatment of translation in the international business (IB) literature has been predominantly concerned with research methodology and back-translation. Arguing for a less microscopic concept of translation in IB research, we advocate a more expansive perspective, whereby translation is...

Earlier research has put forward the theoretical proposition that R&D employees exhibit different patterns of allegiance — they tend to either develop a unilateral allegiance (to their own firm or to the inter-firm collaboration), a dual low allegiance or a dual high allegiance. It has also...

This paper presents a set of theoretical propositions regarding knowledge sharing in China and Russia. We argue that there are important national cultural similarities and differences between the two countries that result in certain similarities and differences in individual knowledge-sharing...

This paper is a study of the knowledge-sharing difficulties experienced by three departments in a knowledge-intensive firm. The case organisation is a global consulting firm that has been on the forefront of knowledge management and has won several knowledge management related international...

Blat and guanxi are terms describing personal networks in Russia and China respectively. They have existed and been practiced for centuries and remain highly relevant today. By employing a social network perspective, we analyse the architecture of blat and guanxi and some of the similarities...

Summary This paper joins the academic conversation about context and contextualization in Management and International Business (IB) research. I explain why it is both relevant and interesting to debate issues of context and contextualization and, as an IB scholar myself, I argue that while IB...

While the existing knowledge sharing literature, in general, emphasizes the link between organizational culture and knowledge sharing, it remains rather ambiguous about how certain components of the former may shape the latter. This issue is especially relevant to multinational corporations...