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

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the potential of university technology business incubators to enhance the absorptive capacity of new technology-based firms, and explore three critical themes: it emp...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors find that exposure to and accumulated experience dealing with political risk allows firms to better implement a wide set of political actions such as negotiation of entry conditions, lobbying, litigation, campaign contributions and coalition formation, leading to preferential conditions, reduced environmental uncertainty, reduced transaction costs and increased long-term sustainability.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative analysis of Chinese and Indian multinational enterprises' ownership strategies in knowledge-intensive cross-border acquisitions (CBAs) is performed, and the authors claim that due to their lower comparative ownership advantage, and consequent higher information asymmetry, Chinese MNEs are more cautious in their ownership strategy.

TL;DR: A positive relationship between growth in product and international scope for firms with high and a negative one for those with little prior diversification experience is found.

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.