Adopting an organizational identity-enhanced cross-level organizational ecology theory (OET) approach, we investigate how multinational corporations (MNCs) make subsidiary location decisions in response to increasing subnational FDI legitimacy in China. We suggest that the three constituent...

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Ziel des Artikels ist es, die Entstehung und den Wandel des Europäischen Rates als Gremium der Staats- und Regierungschefs der Europäischen Union (EU) zu untersuchen. Der Europäische Rat hat insoweit eine besondere Stellung im EU-Institutionengefüge, als er als Impulsgeber und...

This paper merges two isolated bodies of literature: the Markov chain model with macro data (MacRae, 1977) and the ecological inference model (Robinson, 1950). Both are choice models. They have the same likelihood function and the same regression equation.Decades ago, this likelihood function...

Although the economy has always been changing, ever more innovations now seem to accelerate the transformation process. Are there any laws governing the incessant global change? Does it accord with our intentions and desires and make us happier? Do our institutions and our democracies cope with...

Systems of distributed innovation – so-called business ecosystems – have become increasingly prevalent in many industries. These entities generally encompass numerous corporations, individuals, and communities that might be individually autonomous but related through their connection with an...

Providing a first tentative understanding of novelty and a set of implications for organizations to manage it, this book focuses on the potential offered by emergent novelty, namely novelty which is neither designed nor pursued. The author asks how organizations might increase their abilities...

Regelabweichungen sind das Ergebnis von Erwartungen über Mängel in bestimmten Regel-funktionen, die sich auf der Ebene des Regeldesigns, der Ebene organisationaler Routinen sowie im Zusammenhang mit Innovationen finden lassen. Die unternehmerischen Innovati-onsstrategien des Compliance oder...

This study contributes to the subsidiary control literature by empirically demonstrating the importance of FDI legitimacy in determining subsidiary ownership and expatriate staffing levels. Based on organizational ecology theory (OET), our study considers the tension between legitimation and...

Following the basic paradigms of the organizational ecology approach, we propose three fields for further research that have relevance for business administration and management. (1) We argue that to better understand organizational life cycles, it is important to analyze the influence of...