.... Specifically, it intends to help bridge an existing gap in the literature by focusing on the international commitment of established small entrepreneurial firms, a topic that has been largely overlooked; investigating small‐firm commitment to foreign investments whereas most studies focus on exporting...

.... There are essentially four principal means of foreign market entry: 1. exporting; 2. licensing; 3. joint‐venture partnering; and 4. wholly‐owned foreign investment (Buckley and Casson, 1998). The term “foreign direct investment” incorporates wholly‐owned foreign investment, which...

... business Foreign investment Yadong   Luo . Entry and Co‐operative Strategies in International Business Expansion . Westport, CT : Quorum Books , ISBN: ISBN: 1‐56720‐161‐X ...

... organizational performance. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Foreign investment Market entry Time Involvement Optimization Model In this section, we focus on a general conceptual model that could be adapted to a wide variety of decision scenarios. This framework, which is presented in Figure 1...

... to increase, and to do so at a rate close to twice that of the growth in consumer purchasing power. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Retailing International marketing Foreign investment United Kingdom In recent years the accelerating internationalisation of retailing has attracted the attention...

...Leonidas C. Leonidou Ingmar   Björkman , Mats   Forsgren Edited by . The Nature of the International Firm . Copenhagen : Handelshøjkolens Forlag   1997 . 500 pp Alliances Competitive advantage Foreign investment Globalization International trade...

...Graham J. Hooley; Tony Cox; David Shipley; Jozsef Beracs; Krizstina Kolos Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the accompanying social and political revolutions of 1989 a great deal has been written about the need to attract foreign investment, technology and managerial expertise...

... services than for separable services. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Companies Foreign investment Investment analysis Size The purpose of this article is to examine: the effect of internal and external uncertainty on the firm′s decision to engage in foreign direct investment instead...

... of local production factors have a greater impact on the firm′s entry mode choice than a host country′s business environment factors. Competitive advantage Export Foreign investment Market entry USA International Marketing Review 10,2 Impact of Host Country Market Characteristics on the Choice...

... and consumption) enter world markets almost exclusively via foreign direct investment and contractual transfers. This diversity poses challenges to practitioners, policy makers and researchers in this field. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Export Foreign investment International marketing Service industries...

.... The appendix gives suggestions for how the same contents could be presented in more dynamic and attractive language. © MCB UP Limited 1989 Foreign investment Joint ventures Developing countries Multinationals International Marketing Review 6,3 62 Received August 1987 Revised April 1988 Revised...

... be clustered into segments based on the FDI benefits they seek. The article concludes with normative and practical implications of the methodology for investment policy makers in recipient countries. © MCB UP Limited 1988 Foreign Investment Segmentation The authors wish to thank S. Tamer...