Search Results - "TONG, TONY W."

Rethinking firm-specific advantages from intellectual property rights: Boundary conditions for MNEs by Prud’homme, Dan, Tong, Tony W.

“…We develop three sets of theoretical boundary conditions for the firm-specific advantages (FSA) and country-specific advantages (CSA) view of intellectual…”
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How much does subnational region matter to foreign subsidiary performance? Evidence from "Fortune" Global 500 Corporations' investment in China by Ma, Xufei, Tong, Tony W, Fitza, Markus

“…What explains the heterogeneity of foreign subsidiary performance? Previous studies have emphasized the importance of industry, corporate parent, and…”
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Multinationality and downside risk: The roles of option portfolio and organization by Belderbos, René, Tong, Tony W., Wu, Shubin

“…Multinational operations confer firms a portfolio of switching options that offer potential operating flexibility in the context of input cost variability,…”
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Real Options in Multinational Corporations: Organizational Challenges and Risk Implications by Tony W. Tong, Reuer, Jeffrey J.

“…In this study, we investigate how multinationality affects firms' risk levels. Our investigation builds on the idea from real options theory that international…”
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Expatriate Utilization and Foreign Direct Investment Performance: The Mediating Role of Knowledge Transfer by Wang, Sheng, Tong, Tony W., Chen, Guoli, Kim, Hyondong

“…Multinational corporations (MNCs) often assign expatriate executives overseas to transfer knowledge, yet prior research has not specifically examined the…”
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Platform governance matters: How platform gatekeeping affects knowledge sharing among complementors by Zhang, Yuchen, Li, Jingjing, Tong, Tony W.

“…Research Summary Orchestrating complementors' value creation activities is critical to platform owners but is challenging. Emerging literature on platform…”
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Governance and Design of Digital Platforms: A Review and Future Research Directions on a Meta-Organization by Chen, Liang, Tong, Tony W., Tang, Shaoqin, Han, Nianchen

“…The burgeoning digital-platforms literature across multiple business disciplines has primarily characterized the platform as a market or network. Although the…”
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Platform Governance Design in Platform Ecosystems: Implications for Complementors’ Multihoming Decision by Chen, Liang, Yi, Jingtao, Li, Sali, Tong, Tony W.

“…Extant platform research focuses on how platform owners’ governance behaviors directly affect complementors. This study explicates the multilateral…”
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Appropriability risk and knowledge search on digital platforms by Han, Nianchen, Zhang, Yuchen, Tong, Tony W.

“…Research has rarely studied how innovators conduct knowledge search in response to an increased risk that their original ideas may be imitated (i.e.,…”
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Multinational investment and the value of growth options: Alignment of incremental strategy to environmental uncertainty by Belderbos, René, Tong, Tony W., Wu, Shubin

“…Research Summary One of the motivations for multinational firms' investment in foreign affiliates in uncertain environments is the future growth opportunities…”
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Portfolio configuration and foreign entry decisions: A juxtaposition of real options and risk diversification theories by Belderbos, René, Tong, Tony W., Wu, Shubin

“…Research Summary Research on foreign market entry has rarely considered that multinational firms' new entries may be affected by the configuration of their…”
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What determines the duration of patent examination in China? An outcome-specific duration analysis of invention patent applications at SIPO by Tong, Tony W., Zhang, Kun, He, Zi-Lin, Zhang, Yuchen

“…•Replicates and extends prior work on the determinants of patent examination duration using a full population of invention patent applications at the State…”
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Trademarks and firm market value: Evidence from new trademark-firm linked data in China by Xiao, Yangao, Han, Nianchen, Li, Rui, Ran, Huaqing, Zhou, Shihao, Tong, Tony W.

“…A growing stream of research conducted in developed economies has shown that trademarks are positively related to firms' market value. However, we have limited…”
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Terrorism-induced uncertainty and firm R&D investment: A real options view by Li, Daitian, Tong, Tony W, Xiao, Yangao, Zhang, Feida

“…How terrorism affects firms’ investment decisions is gaining increasing attention globally and represents a frontier topic in international business. Although…”
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How anticipated employee mobility affects acquisition likelihood: Evidence from a natural experiment by Younge, Kenneth A., Tong, Tony W., Fleming, Lee

“…This study draws on strategic factor market theory and argues that acquirers' decisions regarding whether to bid for a firm reflect their expectations about…”
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Toward a resilient complex adaptive system view of business models by Liu, Jucun, Tong, Tony W., Sinfield, Joseph V.

“…This paper employs the theory of resilient complex adaptive systems (RCAS) to offer a versatile and universal foundation for the concept of a business model…”
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A SIGNALING THEORY OF ACQUISITION PREMIUMS: EVIDENCE FROM IPO TARGETS by REUER, JEFFREY J., TONG, TONY W., WU, CHENG-WEI

“…This article extends signaling theory to research on acquisition premiums and investigates the value that newly public targets capture in post-IPO…”
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A stakeholder-based view of the evolution of intellectual property institutions by Prud’homme, Dan, Tong, Tony W., Han, Nianchen

“…In this article, we address several limitations of prior international business studies that investigate how and why intellectual property rights (IPR)…”
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Real Options and Investment Mode: Evidence from Corporate Venture Capital and Acquisition by Tong, Tony W., Li, Yong

“…Existing research has used real options theory to study corporate venture capital (CVC) investment, yet little work has empirically examined such investment in…”
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International Joint Ventures and the Value of Growth Options by Tong, Tony W., Reuer, Jeffrey J., Peng, Mike W.

“…According to real options theory, international joint ventures (IJVs) offer valuable growth options, yet there has been no direct evidence of whether, and…”
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