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作者：Collinson, Simon; Rugman, Alan M.
作者单位：University of Warwick; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; University of Reading
摘要：In the world's largest 500 firms, there are 64 Japanese multinational enterprises (MNEs) with data on regional sales, but only three operate globally; whereas 57 of them average over 80% of their sales and foreign assets in their home region. Why is there such a strong intra-regional dimension to their activities? Using empirical data and a new framework for analysing both downstream (sales) assets and upstream (production) assets we analyse why most large Japanese firms appear to have firm-sp...
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作者：Qian, Gongming; Li, Lee; Li, Ji; Qian, Zhengming
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; York University - Canada; Hong Kong Baptist University; Xiamen University
摘要：This study examines how regional diversification affects firm performance. The results indicate that regional diversification has linear and curvilinear effects on firm performance. Regional diversification enhances firm performance linearly up to a certain threshold, and then its impact becomes negative. The results also show that firms of developed countries maximize their performance when they operate across a moderate number of developed regions and a strictly limited number of developing ...
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作者：Qian, Lihong; Delios, Andrew
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; National University of Singapore
摘要：We use an interdisciplinary approach to investigate multinational banks' foreign activities. We bridge core concepts from the stages theory of internationalization to internalization theory, to extend the literature on the defensive expansion hypothesis. Unlike the primarily aggregate levels of analysis employed in previous research on multinational banking, we utilize a firm-level analysis of the internationalization experiences of 21 Japanese banks in the period 1980-1998. We find that banks...
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作者：Song, Jaeyong; Shin, Jongtae
作者单位：Seoul National University (SNU); Long Island University; Long Island University Post; Columbia University
摘要：We investigate the factors that influence the extent to which a multinational corporation's headquarters (MNC-HQ) sources knowledge from the host countries of its R&D labs. We propose that the technological capabilities held by MNC-HQs present a paradox. On the one hand, they enhance MNC-HQs' learning capabilities. On the other hand, they reduce MNC-HQs' motivations to outsource knowledge from host countries. We also argue that it is important to consider both relative and absolute levels of t...
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作者：Rugman, Alan M.; Verbeke, Alain
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business; University of Calgary; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：We are grateful to Osegowitsch and Sammartino for their critical analysis of our work on the regional and global strategies of multinational enterprises (MNEs). In this response, we demonstrate that changing the quantitative thresholds for classifying MNEs as global vs non-global has no bearing on our earlier conclusions. First, very few global firms exist. Second, scholarly reflection on regional vs global MNE strategy requires substantive extensions of extant international business theory.
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作者：Paul, Donna L.; Wooster, Rossitza B.
作者单位：Portland State University; Washington State University; California State University System; California State University Sacramento
摘要：Studies in international business have considered both theoretical and empirical analyses of investment strategies by multinational firms in transition economies. However, there is scant research on the impact of firm-specific factors on the likelihood, timing, and mode-of-entry decisions in these economies. We provide evidence on three aspects of the strategic decisions by US firms to invest in transition economies. First, we find that firms entering the region have greater advertising intens...
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作者：Fernhaber, Stephanie A.; Gilbert, Brett Anitra; McDougall, Patricia P.
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; Iowa State University; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要：In this paper, we argue that geographic location may be one reason why some ventures are able to acquire the resources needed to internationalize while others cannot. We use ecological arguments to predict an inverted U-shaped relationship between the concentration of industry clustering within a geographic location and the venture's internationalization. We also explore whether venture characteristics influence the nature of this relationship. Our hypotheses are regressed on international int...
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作者：Osegowitsch, Thomas; Sammartino, Andre
作者单位：University of Melbourne
摘要：Alan Rugman and co-authors argue that globalisation, and with it global strategy, is a myth. This contention rests on a taxonomy of the world's largest firms based on their sales, showing an overwhelming share of home-regional firms. We question the rationales underpinning their classification scheme. When retesting the data using different schema we find that the original results are far from robust, with a significant share of firms attaining bi-regional or global status. Further longitudina...
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作者：Lages, Luis Filipe; Jap, Sandy D.; Griffith, David A.
作者单位：Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Emory University; Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business
摘要：This paper employs organizational learning theory to examine the short-term effect of past export performance, and internal (management) and external (market) forces on marketing strategy adaptation and current export performance. Results from a survey of over 500 export managers indicate that current-period performance improvement (in terms of performance achievement, export intensity, and performance satisfaction in the current year) is influenced by the firm's commitment to exporting. Furth...
