This paper develops a new integrative framework explaining and predicting multinational firms' international staffing decisions based on resource-based, agency, and transaction costs theories. In this framework, a firm considers (1) the relative values that expatriates / local managers can bring...

This article attempts to explain the seeming paradox of a country with a high tax burden and a continually concentrated distribution of income. Using a nonparametric density estimation, it is shown that Brazil does not conform to the characteristics of most countries in terms of income tax and...

This paper experimentally investigates the determinants of the deviation between potential and realized value creation in strategic alliances. To better understand how decision making in alliances may influence success, we use an experimental design that juxtaposes two important factors that...

An emerging "bonding hypothesis" holds that a firm's geographic domicile may not determine its corporate governance destiny. Firms from countries with weaker corporate governance regimes can internationalize their legal (but not necessarily operational) presence by cross-listing their securities...

In the current paper, we outline several approaches to determine the value of information system (IS) flexibility, defined as the extent to which an IS can be modified and upgraded following its initial implementation. Building on an earlier theoretical model by GEBAUER and SCHOBER (2006), we...

Integrating cross-company business process standards in an interorganizational system (IOS) context is an emerging phenomenon on several business fronts. The practice is viewed as an enabler towards solidifying business to business connections, streamlining cross-company processes and providing...

Users of products and services often make product-related innovations that become taken-for-granted product features. Early research in this area found that while product users--be they firms or individuals--innovated, it was existing manufacturers who commercialized the innovation. Users...

Exemplary teaching is of limited use unless other teachers can learn from the exemplars and improve their teaching effectiveness. One objective of this paper is to use The Attentional & Interpersonal Style (TAIS) inventory to identify and analyze the characteristics of exemplary university...

Over the past twenty years, research on social embeddedness and socially embedded exchange has grown to occupy a prominent place in organizational theory research. But while a large volume of research makes reference to the construct of social embeddedness, few papers have attempted to assess...

Mobile information systems (IS) hold great promise to support organizational processes. Clear guidelines, however, of how to design effective mobile IS in support of organizational processes have not been developed. Based on earlier research that emphasizes the importance of fit between...