Dissecting embeddedness in international retailing

The political embeddedness of international business networks

Why Do International Assignees Stay? an Organizational Embeddedness Perspective

We apply an organizational embeddedness perspective to examine international assignees’ retention with the organization. Specifically, we hypothesize that assignees’ social ties within and their perceived fit with the host unit positively relate to two sacrifices with leaving the organization: their firmspecific learning during the assignment and their perceived career prospects in the organiza...

International retailing operations: downstream entry and expansion via franchising

In this paper, the shift into international franchising from other forms of operation, rather than the typical home market franchising base, is explored. The focus is international retail franchising, based on a study of the Danish clothing and footwear industry. In this study it was found that Danish companies were moving into international franchising as an outcome of a more general shift fro...

in Retailing

Disclaimer The opinions expressed in this working paper are the responsibility of the author alone. Female retail managers participating in this survey occupy more senior positions than female managers in the general UK labour market. Over one third of the women responding to the survey (36%) describe themselves as middle managers, while one quarter (25%) describe themselves as senior managers....

The Role of Knowledge Embeddedness in the Process of Creation of Synergies in International Strategic Alliances

This paper develops a conceptual model, based on a structural equation approach, for empirically investigating the role played by relational embeddedness in the process of creation of synergies of knowledge related capabilities in international strategic alliances. The theoretical model identifies an underlying latent construct; knowledge embeddedness and its antecedents: distance, which needs ...