When faced with adverse situations in exchange relationships, the people involved are required to respond. Response strategies are reactions to such adverse situations and represent an integrated structure organized in people's psyches. Extant response strategy research implicitly assumes that...

In this study we present a multilevel cultural faultline model depicting the effect of faultlines in terms of national and organizational culture and personality on team conflict in offshore outsourcing teams. Some studies have addressed faultline activation, the process of triggering social...

We review and reconceptualize faultline activation, defined as the process by which members of a team come to perceive subgroups, and add the notion of faultline deactivation, the process of minimizing the salience of perceived subgroups in teams. We develop a typology for faultline activators...

Over decades, research on multinational enterprises’ (MNEs) strategies has been anchored in internalization theory. Strongly grounded in transaction cost economics to explain foreign market entry, it hardly explains how MNEs can build and sustain a competitive advantage. Thus, this paper aims...

Performance is the lifeblood of a firm's management. Performance itself depends on the adaptation of strategy, based on learning and the environment. An important way that firms adapt their strategy is through imitation or mimetic isomorphism. Imitation implies a referent for such adaptations....

This study proposes a conceptual process framework to describe how international strategic alliance partners overcome the liabilities of cultural distance. We conduct an in-depth analysis of 31 semi-structured interviews with alliance managers and directors. Our findings suggest that a...

Performance is the lifeblood of a firm's management. Performance itself depends on the adaptation of strategy, based on learning and the environment. An important way that firms adapt their strategy is through imitation or mimetic isomorphism. Imitation implies a referent for such adaptations....