Management International Review

Strategic Orientation and the Choice of Foreign Market Entry Mode an Empirical Examination

Drawing on the transaction costs, strategic capability and the strategic cognition perspectives, this study seeks to examine whether and how firms' strategic orientations at the business level influence the entry mode choices that firms make in accessing foreign markets. The study uses a sample of 332 foreign market entries made by 62 US based firms over a period of 6 years to test hypotheses linking firm business level strategy to the choice of foreign entry modes. Findings indicate that Pro...

Institutional Environment and Subsidiary Survival

In this article, the authors examine the effect of the institutional environment on the mortality of overseas subsidiaries. They develop hypotheses to study the impact of political openness and social openness, two dimensions of the institutional environment and how joint venture status moderates these relationships. They test their hypotheses using a sample of 12,000+ Japanese overseas investments from 1986-1997 in 25 countries, using Cox hazard models. Their results suggest that the sociopo...

The Emergence of Portfolio Restructuring in Japan

The authors examine the role of stakeholders as an influence in the practice of portfolio restructuring. They contend that with the presence and creation of new legal arrangements and regulations, portfolio restructuring achieved widespread usage, but only when the initiatives were consistent with the interests of the most powerful social actors in a firm. Building on a stakeholder power approach to corporate governance, they examine whether the interests of relational banks, managers, and bu...

Understanding Environmental Risk for Ijvs in China

Firms still have great difficulty joint venturing successfully in China. The authors contend that the current understanding of environmental risk in China is incomplete. Specifically, the current conceptualization has three problems: 1. lack of integration of unique Chinese environmental characteristics, 2. incomplete distinction between different types of environmental risk, and 3. lack of a conceptualization of how the risk pattern changes as the economy transitions. They extend the current...

Managerial Willingness to Assume Traveling Short-Term and Long-Term Global Assignments

Drawing on reasoned action and family systems theories, as well as the domestic and international job transfer and relocation, global assignments, personality and work-life balance research domains, this study examines managers' willingness to assume global assignments. The authors propose a multi-factor model and test several hypotheses using survey data collected from 431 global managers and 162 spouses/significant others that examine the degree to which individual, family, and organization...

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International Human Resource Management, by Peter J. Dowling, Marion Festing, and Allen D. Engle, is reviewed.