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• Predictors of individual knowledge acquisition commitment in a post-soviet setting.

...2008; Wang and Nicholas 2005; Wang et al. 2004), and on... low levels of foreign direct investment (UNCTAD 2009) and limited geo-political influence. Despite...T. Johnson, & M. P. Zanna (Eds.), The handbook of attitudes (pp. 173-221). Mahwah: Erlbaum. . Akg.... Hays, W. L. (1994). Statistics (5th ed.). Orlando: Harcourt Brace. . Holden, N. J...

• Management International Review
• Band 51 Nr. 5, September 2011

• The impact of regional integration on insider and outsider FDI.

... Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) estimates that by 2005 there were about 77,000 mu...; Eden 2002; Ethier 1998; Feils and Rahman 2008; Rugman and Verbeke 2007). At present, "[t]he role...In G. Grossman & K. Rogoff (Eds.), Handbook of international economics (Vol. III, pp. 1597-164.... Hamilton, L. (2004). Statistics with STATA. Belmont: Brooks/Cole--Thomson Learning...

• Management International Review
• Band 51 Nr. 1, Januar 2011

• 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 sociopolitical context has a strong influence on the mortality of overseas subsidiaries. They theorized a negative main effect for political and social openness and positive interaction effects with openness when the FDI is through a JV. The results are consistent with the hypotheses. However, political an...

... the local environment (Lu/Xu 2006; Sinha 2008). Thus, with increasing openness, the likelihood o... only to the United States (Hennart 1991, UNCTAD 1996). The propensity of Japanese firms to use all... of Research, and (2) the "Japan Company Handbook," published by Toyo Keizai Inc. (1986-1997). Count...Table 2 presents the descriptive statistics and the correlation coefficients of the variables ...

• Management International Review
• Band 49 Nr. 3, Mai 2009