40 Years of Research On Internationalization and Firm Performance: More Questions Than Answers?
Management International Review › Band 47 Nr. 3, Mai 2007
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40 Years of Research On Internationalization and Firm Performance: More Questions Than Answers?
Performance as a Basic Research Objective of International Business
The question of whether there is a systematic relationship between the internationalization of firms and their performance is central to the field of International Business. Explicitly or implicitly, the question is a major element of all contributions to the theory of foreign direct investment (FDI) and to other theories of foreign market entry. Furthermore, over the years the question has been the subject of a great number of empirical studies, based on various methods. The empirical studies have come to heterogeneous, sometimes contradictory results (Grant 1987, Geringeret al. 1989, Tallman/Li 1996, Gómez-Meija/Palich 1997, Hitt et al. 1997, Gomes/Ramaswamy 1999, Geringer et al. 2000, Denis et al. 2002, Capar/Kotabe 2003, Ruigrok/Wagner 2003, Lu/Beamish 2004, Chiang/Yu 2005). Given the pivotal importance of the topic for the field of International Business, this is highly unsatisfactory.More recently, the debate on the relationship between internationalization and performance has received increased attention. This is mainly due to new empirical studies that make use of new models. While previous empirical r...Siehe den Gesamtinhalt dieses Dokumentes
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