Sinziana Dorobantu's research while affiliated with New York State and other places

... Nonmarket strategy is the configurations and activities through which firms strategically manage their political and social environments (Lawton et al., 2020). It is a concerted approach to creating or sustaining competitive advantage by proactively engaging and managing the political and social context in which the firm operates (Rajwani & Liedong, 2015, Mellahi et al., 2016. ...

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MNE nonmarket strategy in a changing world: Complexities, varieties, and a values-based approach

... 11 The first characteristic gives authoritarian states greater scope to direct their firms to make investments in support of their foreign policies, which represent taxes on firms , and the second gives them incentives to pursue policies of selectively supporting their firms abroad, which represent public subsidies to regime insiders. Furthermore, authoritarian countries prominently feature state-owned enterprises, which tend to engage in FDI strategies that are quite distinct from those of privately-owned firms (Cui and Jiang 2012;Wang et al., 2012;Dorobantu and Zelner 2014). SOEs are less discouraged by political risk, corruption and poor institutions, and their investments are often viewed as an extension of their home country's foreign policy (Knutsen et al., 2011;Ramasamy et al., 2012). ...

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Russian power and the state-owned enterprise

... Users at the extreme left and right edges of the sample have very low probability of being incorrectly positioned: a user describing itself using the word "right" with a positive sentiment, e.g., has very low probability of being in the leftmost edge of the sample. As many studies suggest, left-right cleavages (corresponding to our LR axis) have a structuring role in behavior (e.g., voting behavior; (Aldrich et al. 2010) and in particular on French Twitter (Briatte and Gallic 2015). Indeed, LR axis is among the first two latent dimensions of our ideological space. ...

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Inferring attitudinal spaces in social networks