And the subsidiary lives on: Harnessing complex realities in the contemporary MNE.

Managing multinational enterprise subsidiaries is a core facet of international business research. A shifting reality on the ground has triggered concerns around the waning relevance of the subsidiary because the MNE and its structure and processes have become increasingly complex. Consequently, more decentralized, responsive, and fluid organizational designs are now at the core of IB research.

International connectedness and local disconnectedness: MNE strategy, city-regions and disruption.

Much of the rising international connectedness of city-regions has developed from MNEs replacing local connections with (superior) international ones. This often creates local disconnectedness that energizes the current populist backlash against MNE activities. We develop approaches to new IB theory, addressing the interdependencies of MNEs and city-regions that we propose as a crucial avenue for future research.

Understanding overbidding: using the neural circuitry of reward to design economic auctions.

We take advantage of our knowledge of the neural circuitry of reward to investigate a puzzling economic phenomenon: Why do people overbid in auctions? Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we observed that the social competition inherent in an auction results in a more pronounced blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) response to loss in the striatum, with greater overbidding correlated with the magnitude of this response. Leveraging these neuroimaging results, we design a behavioral experiment that demonstrates that framing an experimental auction to emphasize loss increases overbidding. These results highlight a role for the contemplation of loss in understanding the tendency to bid "too high.

Transfer of metaclazepam and its metabolites into breast milk.

Ten young women took part in this study a few days after delivery (day 3 and day 5 post partum). Lactation had developed normally but the newborn infants were not breast-fed. The study was intended to investigate whether metaclazepam (Talis), a new 1,4-benzodiazepine, and some of its metabolites were present in breast milk.