Browsing BI Open by Author "Grøgaard, Birgitte"
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An empirical investigation of the role of industry factors in the internationalization patterns of firms
Grøgaard, Birgitte; Gioia, Carmine; Benito, Gabriel R. G. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Research on companies’ internationalization has mainly focused on firm-level and country-level factors in order to explain firms’ cross-border activities. With the exception of a limited number of studies emphasizing ... -
Bringing corporate governance into internalization theory: State ownership and foreign entry strategies
Grøgaard, Birgitte; Rygh, Asmund; Benito, Gabriel R G (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)We use internalization theory to analyze the establishment and entry mode decisions of state-owned (SOE) and privately owned (POE) enterprises. We enrich internalization theory by building on insights from economic theory ... -
The dynamics of union-management collaboration during postmerger integration
Stensaker, Inger G.; Colman, Helene Loe; Grøgaard, Birgitte (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Collaboration between unions and management may facilitate postmerger integration, however collaboration can also be time-consuming and challenging. Using a qualitative case study, we examined union–management collaboration ... -
Interpretive Frames as the Organization’s “Mirror”: From Espoused Values to Social Integration in MNEs
Grøgaard, Birgitte; Colman, Helene Loe (Journal article, 2016)Many multinational enterprises (MNEs) seek to strengthen their competitive positions through internal integration. Socialization is a key integration mechanism to leverage advantages spread across MNEs’ geographically ... -
Legitimizing, leveraging, and launching: Developing dynamic capabilities in the MNE
Grøgaard, Birgitte; Colman, Helene Loe; Stensaker, Inger G. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Multinational enterprises (MNEs) face simultaneous pressures for global integration and local responsiveness. While the extant literature acknowledges that most MNEs are neither entirely geared towards achieving global ... -
The long-term energy transition: Drivers, outcomes, and the role of the multinational enterprise
Bass, Erin; Grøgaard, Birgitte (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The pre-eminence of the production and consumption of nonrenewable fossil fuels is waning with the growth of renewable energy solutions. This long-term energy (LTE) transition is one of the global grand challenges, ... -
Navigating MNE control and coordination: A critical review and directions for future research
Zeng, Rong (Ratchel); Grøgaard, Birgitte; Björkman, Ingmar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Control and coordination efforts are at the heart of MNE functioning. Yet, our review reveals that the literature on MNE control and coordination lacks conceptual clarity, which may hamper the development of the field. In ... -
Organizational identity work in MNE subsidiaries: Managing dual embeddedness
Colman, Helene Loe; Grøgaard, Birgitte; Stensaker, Inger G. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This paper adopts an organizational identity work perspective to examine how MNE subsidiaries manage dual embeddedness to strategically position themselves in both their local context and in the global MNE. Prior research ... -
The untold story: Teaching cases and the rise of international business as a new academic field
Amdam, Rolv Petter Storvik; Benito, Gabriel R.G.; Grøgaard, Birgitte (Others, 2023)The dominant narrative about the rise of international business (IB) focuses on early research and the institutionalization of a new academic field. In this study, we explore the role of case writing in the field’s formative ... -
What merits greater scholarly attention in international business?
Grøgaard, Birgitte; Sartor, Michael A.; Rademaker, Linda (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Scholarly efforts to propose future directions for international business (IB) research have generated a timely and extensive inventory of potentially interesting areas of research. We supplement this line of inquiry by ...