Barclay E. James’s research while affiliated with Mount St. Mary's University and other places

... Their intervention strategies, solely driven by finances and legal pressures, ignore the vital roles of human factors, culture, and adaptive learning in building resilience. Similarly, the study of work motivational factors (WMFs) has been stuck in a rut of identifying the "usual suspects"sociopsychological, organisational, and economic factors (Adam et al., 2023;Soliman et al., 2022;Bendickson et al., 2021)while missing the hidden motivators that truly drive us. Martela et al.'s (2022) exploration of "basic" motivators, while offering a basic framework, falls short of capturing workforce motivation's nuanced and dynamic nature. ...

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Human Resource Productivity: Integrating Resilience Engineering, Motivation, and Health Safety

... Many analyses of the literature have been conducted, with discussions of the notion of absorptive capacity [53][54][55]. However, our discussion is based on the seminal paper of Cohen and Levinthal, who revealed that "creative capacity" and "absorptive capacity" are very much alike (p. ...

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Creativity on the Move: Nexus of Technology, Slack and Social Complexities

... Empirical research highlights significant differences in the business models of MNCs from developed versus developing economies (Li et al., 2018;Estrin et al., 2018). The institutional distance between host and home economies plays a critical role in shaping the regulatory effectiveness of localization policies (James et al., 2020;Tang & Buckley, 2022). The institutional environment of the host country is particularly influential in shaping the operations and strategies of MNC subsidiaries . ...

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Navigating Localization: The Effects of Local Content Policies on Multinational Corporations in Host Economies

... In the future, with the continuous development of technologies such as artificial intelligence and cloud computing, subway investment management platforms will move towards a more intelligent and automated direction [7]. As a powerful machine learning technology, DL's application in subway investment management will also be more extensive and in-depth [8]. ...

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Design of Subway Investment Management Platform Under the Background of Informatization

... Studies on multinationals from Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico reveal that they enter both developing and developed markets (Amal and Tomio, 2012;Andreff, 2015). They favor host countries with availability of skilled labor at lower costs (Alcântara et al., 2016;James and Sawant, 2019), large markets and growing demand (Amal and Tomio, 2012;Ricz, 2020), open economies (Alcântara et al., 2016;Amal and Tomio, 2012) and geographic or cultural proximity (Albeck and Huth, 2014;Barbero, 2019;Gonzalez-Perez and Velez-Ocampo, 2014;Huesca-Dorantes et al., 2018). While geographic proximity typically means that multilatinas favor other Latin American markets, Mexico stands as an exception due to its strategic North American location (Fleury and Fleury, 2011). ...

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Multilatinas’ foreign divestment and host country institutional uncertainty: is there a best entry strategy?

... At the firm level, studies focusing on political strategies of coping with various types of political risks have started making some headway regarding how political strategies and capabilities may have to adapt depending on the type or extent of political risk/uncertainty present in a given environment (Oh & Oetzel, 2017;Schnyder & Sallai, 2020). For instance, James and Vaaler (2018) find that in situations of 'policy instability,' foreign companies co-investing in projects where the state holds a minority stake can help mitigate investment risk. Yet, when 'policy instability' becomes more pronounced (i.e., turns into political uncertainty), political strategies relying on market-based political capabilities become less effective, while locally developed relational political capabilitiessuch as political ties -become more important (Dang et al., 2020;Sallai & Schnyder, 2021;Oh & Oetzel, 2017). ...

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The antecedents of MNC political risk and uncertainty under right-wing populist governments

... He established the pricing model of manpower capital, and brought nonlinear assumptions, labor supply and risk financial assets into the model to achieve the optimal investment model of manpower capital. Literature [21] holds that the key to prevent and control the artificial risk of investors is to improve the internal management of enterprises, establish the incentive and restraint mechanism of manpower capital, and eliminate the inducing factors of this risk beforehand. Literature [22] pointed out that more investment in universal manpower capital from the individual point of view can better avoid risks. ...

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An Early Warning Risk and Control Model for Manpower Capital Investment Using Data Warehousing and Decision Support System

... It established the pricing model of manpower capital and brought nonlinear assumptions, labor supply, and risk financial assets into the model to achieve the optimal investment model of manpower capital. Literature [21] holds that the key to preventing and controlling the artificial risk of investors is to improve the internal management of enterprises, establish the incentive and restraint mechanism of manpower capital, and eliminate the inducing factors of this risk beforehand. Literature [22] pointed out that more investment in universal manpower capital from the individual point of view can better avoid risks. ...

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An Early Warning Risk and Control Model for Manpower Capital Investment Using Data Warehousing and Computational Intelligence

... In other cases, entrepreneurs might not know which opportunities are possible or impossible due to uncertainty about demand-side conditions in future markets . Under these conditions, real options approaches can be used to evaluate different options (Li et al., 2007) based on the degree to which different choices open possibilities to attract new customers (Hunt et al., 2021). Understanding how entrepreneurs identify and choose market entry strategies raises critical questions about how entrepreneurs resolve the inherent equivocality of evaluating and judging different possibilities (Townsend et al., 2018). ...

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Chance, probability, and uncertainty at the edge of human reasoning: What is Knightian uncertainty?

... With few exceptions (e.g., Blagoeva, Jensen, & Merchant, 2020;Johnson Jr., Arya, & Mirchandani, 2013;McGuire, James, & Papadopoulos, 2016;Tsang & Yamanoi, 2016), replication studies are not common in the IM discipline. Yet, replication is particularly crucial to IM because IM studies are expected to deliver actionable results and implications (Grøgaard et al., 2022), and they are by definition context-specific as the findings are largely subject to heterogeneous institutional settings in both geographic and temporal aspects (Buckley et al., 2017;Wang et al., 2023). ...

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Special Issue Proposal for Journal of International Management Improving Rigor in Research: Replication Studies in International Management