Journal of World Business

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Volume 46, issue 4, 2011

Letter from the editors pp. 405-405

Fred Luthans and John Slocum

Multinationals in the Middle East: Challenges and opportunities pp. 406-410

Kamel Mellahi, Mehmet Demirbag and Liesl Riddle

Survival of Japanese subsidiaries in the Middle East and North Africa pp. 411-425

Mehmet Demirbag, Marina Apaydin and Ekrem Tatoglu

Selecting the country in which to start internationalization: The non-sequential internationalization model pp. 426-437

Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra

Emerging market multinationalsâ role in facilitating developed country multinationalsâ regional expansion: A critical review of the literature and Turkish MNC examples pp. 438-446

Attila Yaprak and Bahattin Karademir

The effects of market orientation on subsidiary performance: Empirical evidence from MNCs in Turkey pp. 447-454

Kirca Ahmet H.

Gaining legitimacy through hiring local workforce at a premium: The case of MNEs in the United Arab Emirates pp. 455-461

Ingo Forstenlechner and Kamel Mellahi

The Razor's edge: Managing MNC affiliates in Iran pp. 462-475

Ebrahim Soltani and Adrian Wilkinson

Lebanon: From cataclysm to opportunityâCrisis management lessons for MNCs in the tourism sector of the Middle East pp. 476-486

Frédéric Jallat and Clifford J. Shultz

Reducing distributor opportunism in the export market: Effects of monitoring mechanisms, norm-based information exchange, and market orientation pp. 487-496

Min Ju, Janet Y. Murray, Masaaki Kotabe and Gerald Yong Gao

The MNC as an externally embedded organization: An investigation of embeddedness overlap in local subsidiary networks pp. 497-505

Phillip C. Nell, Bjérn Ambos and Bodo B. Schlegelmilch

Global talent management and global talent challenges: Strategic opportunities for IHRM pp. 506-516

Randall S. Schuler, Susan E. Jackson and Ibraiz Tarique

Real call options to enlarge foreign subsidiaries - The moderating effect of irreversibility on the influence of economic volatility and political instability on subsequent FDI pp. 517-526

Fisch Jan Hendrik

Drivers and outcomes of importer adaptation in international buyer-seller relationships pp. 527-543

Leonidas C. Leonidou, Dayananda Palihawadana, Simos Chari and Constantinos N. Leonidou

Volume 46, issue 3, 2011

A world of languages: Implications for international management research and practice pp. 267-269

Rebecca Piekkari and Susanne Tietze

Multilingual organizations as 'linguascapes': Negotiating the position of English through discursive practices pp. 270-278

Chris Steyaert, Anja Ostendorp and Claudine Gaibrois

Babel in business: The language barrier and its solutions in the HQ-subsidiary relationship pp. 279-287

Anne-Wil Harzing, Kathrin Köster and Ulrike Magner

Shifting the faultlines of language: A quantitative functional-level exploration of language use in MNC subsidiaries pp. 288-295

Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen and Christoffer Aarnio

Standardization and contextualization: A study of language and leadership across 17 countries pp. 296-304

Lena Zander, Audra Mockaitis and Anne-Wil Harzing

The effects of 'language standardization' on the acceptance and use of e-HRM systems in foreign subsidiaries pp. 305-313

Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä and Adam Smale

Language as a resource to assess cross-cultural equivalence in quantitative management research pp. 314-319

Jean-Claude Usunier

Exploring national culture's consequences on international business lobbying pp. 320-327

Andrew Barron

Determinants of individuals' preference for cross-cultural literacy: Role of international trade potential pp. 328-336

Yener Kandogan

Does institutional reform of intellectual property rights lead to more inbound FDI? Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean pp. 337-345

Theodore A. Khoury and Mike W. Peng

Living with offshoring: The impact of offshoring on the evolution of organizational configurations pp. 346-358

Joseph Lampel and Ajay Bhalla

Dynamic capabilities exploitation of market and hierarchy governance structures: An empirical comparison of Taiwan and South Korea pp. 359-370

Po-Yen Lee, Hui-Tzu Lin, Hung-Hsin Chen and Yi-Hwan Shyr

Strategic orientations and strategies of high technology ventures in two transition economies pp. 371-380

Chung Ming Lau and Garry D. Bruton

Ownership, strategic orientation and internationalization in emerging markets pp. 381-393

Yi Liu, Yuan Li and Jiaqi Xue

The impact of country-level factors on the use of new work practices pp. 394-403

Andrea Ollo-López, Alberto Bayo-Moriones and Martín Larraza-Kintana

Volume 46, issue 2, 2011

Managerial decision-making in international business: A forty-five-year retrospective pp. 135-142

Yair Aharoni, Laszlo Tihanyi and Brian L. Connelly

Risk management in the internationalization process of the firm: A note on the Uppsala model pp. 143-153

Francisco Figueira-de-Lemos, Jan Johanson and Jan-Erik Vahlne

The structure of location choice for new U.S. manufacturing investments in Asia-Pacific pp. 154-165

Raymond J. Mataloni

Managerial ties, knowledge acquisition, realized absorptive capacity and new product market performance of emerging multinational companies: A case of China pp. 166-176

Masaaki Kotabe, Crystal Xiangwen Jiang and Janet Y. Murray

A multi-level model of global decision-making: Developing a composite global frame-of-reference pp. 177-184

Michael Harvey, David Griffith, Tim Kiessling and Miriam Moeller

The role of top management team international orientation in international strategic decision-making: The choice of foreign entry mode pp. 185-193

Bo Nielsen and Sabina Nielsen

Strategic decision-making processes in internationalization: Does national culture of the focal firm matter? pp. 194-204

Pavlos Dimitratos, Andreas Petrou, Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki and Jeffrey E. Johnson

Real options in multinational decision-making: Managerial awareness and risk implications pp. 205-219

Tarik Driouchi and David Bennett

Editors' report pp. 220-220

Fred Luthans and John Slocum

The effects of organizational structure and job characteristics on export sales managers' job satisfaction and organizational commitment pp. 221-233

Evangelia Katsikea, Marios Theodosiou, Nick Perdikis and John Kehagias

Managerial Leadership and Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 234-241

Isaac Wanasika, Jon P. Howell, Romie Littrell and Peter Dorfman

Impact of interpersonal influences, brand origin and brand image on luxury purchase intentions: Measuring interfunctional interactions and a cross-national comparison pp. 242-252

Paurav Shukla

Entrepreneurial contexts and knowledge coordination within the multinational corporation pp. 253-264

Christopher Williams and Soo Hee Lee

Corrigendum to "Talent management of Western MNCs in China: Balancing global integration and local responsiveness" [J. World Bus. 45 (2) (2010) 169-178] pp. 265-265

Evi Hartmann, Edda Feisel and Holger Schober

Volume 46, issue 1, 2011

Contemporary developments in the management of human resources in Africa pp. 1-4

Ken Kamoche

When two African cultures collide: A study of interactions between managers in a strategic alliance between two African organizations pp. 5-12

Emanuel Gomes, Marcel Cohen and Kamel Mellahi

Human resource strategies for managing back-office employees in subsidiary operations: The case of two investment multinational banks in Tanzania pp. 13-21

Aloysius Newenham-Kahindi

Cross-cultural training and expatriate adjustment: A study of western expatriates in Nigeria pp. 22-30

John O. Okpara and Jean D. Kabongo

HRM in Mozambique: Homogenization, path dependence or segmented business system? pp. 31-41

Geoffrey Wood, Pauline Dibben, Chris Stride and Edward Webster

Female talent development and African business schools pp. 42-49

Kevin Ibeh and Yaw A. Debrah

Business and human development in the base of the pyramid: Exploring challenges and opportunities with market heat maps pp. 50-60

Pablo Acosta, Namsuk Kim, Illana Melzer, Ronald Mendoza and Nina Thelen

The theory of international business pre-Hymer pp. 61-73

Peter J. Buckley

Revisiting the relationship of supervisor trust and CEO trust to turnover intentions: A three-country comparative study pp. 74-83

Robert D. Costigan, Richard C. Insinga, J. Jason Berman, Grazyna Kranas and Vladimir A. Kureshov

Insights into gaining access to export financing: Understanding export lenders' ideal exporter profile pp. 84-92

David A. Griffith

The antecedents and effects of national corruption: A meta-analysis pp. 93-103

William Q. Judge, D. Brian McNatt and Weichu Xu

Country differences concerning sales organization and salesperson antecedents of sales unit effectiveness pp. 104-115

Nigel F. Piercy, George S. Low and David W. Cravens

Key factors affecting acquisition of technological capabilities from foreign acquiring firms by small and medium sized local firms pp. 116-125

Byung Il Park and Pervez N. Ghauri

Dynamic capabilities, internationalization processes and performance pp. 126-133

Christiane Prange and Sylvie Verdier