...Thomas Hutzschenreuter; Ingo Kleindienst; Aditi Sarkar Sengupta; Alain Verbeke Purpose Hutzschenreuter and Voll (2008) introduced the “added distance” concept in international business strategy. They showed the negative impact on German multinational enterprise ( MNE ) performance of multiple...

...Martina K. Linnenluecke Purpose This paper aims to examine the state of research on environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance in the context of multinational business research. This paper discusses research progress as well as various issues and complexities associated with using ESG...

...Lu-Jui Chen; Hung-Tai Tsou Purpose This study aims to discuss not only the relationship between performance and cooperation but also discusses whether a subsidiary should prioritize performance above cooperation or whether a subsidiary should prioritize cooperation above performance. In addition...

.... their choice of generalist or specialist positioning strategy) and its performance implications in the US market. Design/methodology/approach The final sample includes 212 foreign companies from 28 countries operating in the US market. Multiple data sources were used to collect data of these foreign...

...Arkadiusz Ral-Trebacz; Stefan Eckert; Marcus Dittfeld Purpose Current discussions in the international business community have demonstrated that the focus of MNCs operations tends to be more regional than global. This paper aims to investigate the performance effects of intra-regional and inter...

... the mathematical modelling of a firm’s performance following the decision to join a regional cluster. This model builds on a recent stream of theoretical literature which has investigated the relationship between networks and the creation and diffusion of knowledge. The purpose of this model is to propose...

...B. Elango; Jamie R. Wieland Purpose – The importance of regional strategy as a separate paradigm in the international business literature has grown in recent years, and the initial connections between regionalization and firm performance appear promising. What is lacking, however, is an empirical...

...Harun Emre Yildiz Purpose – Previous theoretical explanations and empirical analyses of the multinationality-performance relationship have produced mixed arguments and results. Linear and curvilinear relationships have been theorized and confirmed empirically. This study aims to reconcile earlier...

...In Hyeock (Ian) Lee Purpose – Using data from a sample of new high technology manufacturing start-ups in Korea, the purpose of this paper is to examine the multinationality-performance relationship of international new ventures (INVs) which are born regional in terms of exporting activities...

...Winfried Ruigrok; Dimitrios Georgakakis; Peder Greve Purpose This paper contributes to the debate about the performance implications of adopting a regional as opposed to a global strategic posture. The aim of this paper is to argue that the performance effects of a regionalization strategy vary...

...J. François Outreville Purpose This paper aims to examine the relationship between geographical diversification and the underwriting performance for the world's largest reinsurance groups. It also aims to verify that the form and nature of the relationship between diversification and performance...

...Paloma Almodóvar Purpose This paper aims to shed new light on the multinationality‐performance debate by examining the performance of standardizing versus customizing firms from Spain. Design/methodology/approach The reasons for variations in performance of exporting firms build...

...Lars Matysiak; Andreas Bausch Purpose The purpose of this paper is to summarize theoretical insights about key antecedents of multinational enterprise (MNE) performance and to review and synthesize empirically researched antecedents of MNE performance. Design/methodology/approach Dominant...

...In Hyeock Lee This paper utilizes a new data base on the international activities of small, new ventures in Korea to examine the impact of internationalization on firm performance. Main findings are two‐fold: first, the degree of internationalization by new ventures is related to firm performance...

... Performance Geographical diversification Risk reduction Incomplete capital markets theory © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 VOLUME 18 NUMBER 4 A Commentary on Risk Reduction by Geographic Diversification Stefan Eckert and Georg Trautnitz Abstract: The relationship between...

...Chang Hoon Oh This study analyzes the relationship between multinationality and performance of 1,247 US multinational enterprises (MNEs) over the period of 1995‐2004 by utilizing Tobin’s q theory. Internationalization is a double‐edged sword: foreign intangible assets create a firm’s value, while...

... between internationalization and performance of the EMNEs. This paper seeks to add to the literature by capturing the impact of firm resources on the internationalization‐performance relationship. Empirical analysis on a sample of 787 Indian manufacturing firms indicates that there is a non‐linear...

... of diversification, will induce internationalization into developed countries rather than into developing countries. We also predict that internationalization into developed countries will help performance, but internationalization into developing countries will hurt performance. Based on an analysis of data on 154...

...Frank McDonald; Svetlana Warhurst; Matthew Allen This paper investigates whether changes in autonomy and embeddedness in host locations by foreign owned subsidiaries are associated with improvements in performance by subsidiaries. The results provide evidence that increasing operational decision...

..., coupled with public database and Web site searches. Research propositions were developed based on an extensive qualitative method. The relationship between organizational culture, information technology capability, and performance is proposed in the context of born global firms, based on viewing...