Management International Review

How Do We Capture 'Global Specialization' When Measuring Firms' Degree of Globalization?

The IB literature informs people of several ways to measure firms' degree of globalization. In this paper the researchers make the argument that in fact none of the existing indices really measure firms' degree of "global specialization", that is, to what extent their allocation of resources is multidomestic or global. In order to remedy this they introduce a complementary index measuring how firms are configuring their value chains -- whether they are replicating value chain activities from ...

Social Ties and Foreign Market Entry: An Empirical Inquiry

This study attempts to document the influence of social ties on two critical components of foreign market entry (FME) decisions by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): timing of entry and resource commitment. An ethnic Chinese group serves as the best candidate to underlie this research because ethnic Chinese networks often build on personal connections that are based on regional collegiality and kinship. From a sample of 173 Taiwanese SMEs, hierarchical regression results indicate that...

Experience of Emerging Market Firms: The Role of Cognitive Bias in Developed Market Entry and Survival

This paper draws on organizational learning theory to explain how experience influences the propensity for emerging market firms (using an event history analysis of a sample of Latin American firms during the 1990s) to enter developed markets, and their likelihood of survival. The authors argue that developed market experience is positively related to emerging market firms' entry and survival in developed markets; however, cognitive biases affect the roles played by other types of experience ...

The Nature and Determinants of Exclusivity Rights in International Technology Licensing

Existing research on international licensing focuses on firm decisions related to the choice of licensing versus alternative modes of entry into foreign markets, the timing of licensing within the technology life cycle, and appropriate compensation structures to collect rents. This paper complements and extends this stream of research by focusing on decisions related to granting exclusive licensing rights to a technology in foreign markets. The decision surrounding licensing exclusivity is ba...

An Organizing Framework for Mnc Subsidiary Typologies

Existing multinational subsidiary typologies tend to be derived from strategy types, rather than from examining the subsidiaries themselves. However, there seems to be limited convergence of results. We propose a four-dimensional subsidiary framework to understanding the national subsidiary based on the subsidiary's roles in capability creation and capability utilization within the multinational firm as well as the geographic scope and product scope over which the subsidiary has influence. Th...

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Brokerage and Closure: An Introduction to Social Capital, by R S Burt, is reviewed.