International expansion through start-up or through acquisition : An organizational learning perspective

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the impact of knowledge acquisition from international markets on entrepreneurial growth both at home and abroad and suggest that the effects of international knowledge acquisition will vary with firm age, and find that knowledge acquisition has a positive effect on growth via new products/services development in young firms, but a negative effect in mature firms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the efecto of the incertidumbre externa sobre la eleccion del modo de entrada in el marco de los procesos de inversion directa in el exterior is analyzed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provided a comprehensive account of foreign establishment mode strategies of firms investing in Turkey and provided support to the hypothesized relationships that take into account the impact of host country specific motives of MNEs on their choice between acquisitions and greenfield investments.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors rely on organizational learning theory and strategic momentum research to examine the international merger and acquisition (M&A) activities of a sample of S&P 500 firms and find that prior experience with international acquisitions is more predictive of subsequent international acquisitions than prior domestic acquisition experience.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the usefulness of analyzing firms from the resource side rather than from the product side, in analogy to entry barriers and growth-share matrices, the concepts of resource position barrier and resource-product matrices are suggested.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed an evolutionary theory of the capabilities and behavior of business firms operating in a market environment, including both general discussion and the manipulation of specific simulation models consistent with that theory.

TL;DR: In his book Culture's Consequences, Geert Hofstede proposed four dimensions on which the differences among national cultures can be understood: Individualism, Power Distance, Uncertainty Avoidance and Masculinity.