MNEs from emerging economies (EE MNEs) have recently undertaken aggressive cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As). This phenomenon challenges the current understanding in the international business literature. Integrating the comparative advantage theory with Dunning’s OLI paradigm, this article develops a comparative ownership advantage framework characterized by five attributes: (1) nat...

Enrollment in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans in rural areas grew more than 50% in the first three quarters of 2007 and has more than tripled since the inception of the MA program at the beginning of 2006. However, rural enrollment remains well below urban enrollment as a percentage of the eligible population. This brief updates early findings from analysis of the Medicare+Choice/MA program prese...

This is a case study of industrial systems development. In the project studied, an advanced computer application was developed with the intention of supporting complex, cooperative work. The project participants all viewed the emerging computer application in context. However, different contexts were used by each group of actors. Since the application was placed in contexts well known by the pa...

The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 explicitly increased Medicare payments to private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. As a result, every MA plan in the nation is paid more for its enrollees than they would have been expected to cost in traditional fee-for-service Medicare. The authors calculate that payments to MA plans in 2008 will be 12.4 percent greater than the corresponding costs in trad...

Socioeconomic, racial/ethnic, and gender inequalities in academic achievement have been widely reported in the US, but how these three axes of inequality intersect to determine academic and non-academic outcomes among school-aged children is not well understood. Using data from the US Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten (ECLS-K; N = 10,115), we apply an intersectionality approach to...

Some accounts of exploitation, most notably the degradation-based account provided by Ruth Sample (2003) and Robert Goodin’s (1987) vulnerability-based account, argue that persons are exploited when the benefit they receive from a transaction falls below a certain threshold value. According to these accounts, the duty of the advantaged party to constrain their advantage in light of the other pa...

This study uses annual data from 1985 to 2019 analyze the export and import trade patterns of mechanical electrical products China. We employ H-index, or difference between net capability symmetric revealed comparative advantage, assess policies in exports imports. The results reveal that China has advantage imports, had disadvantage before 1999. In recent years, policy protectionism been adopt...

With rapid development of network, network marketing has incomparable advantages compared to traditional marketing. This paper applies field survey results and combines current status of car enterprise network marketing to analyze advantage and disadvantage of car industry network marketing.