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

TL;DR: A systematic review of the theoretical and empirical studies relating to global mindset that have been published in books and peer-reviewed journals can be found in this article, where two fundamental themes in the global mindset literature are identified: cosmopolitanism and cognitive complexity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate organizational conditions influencing the allocation of decision rights made by headquarters of multinational corporations (MNCs) to their foreign R&D subsidiaries and find that control theory makes correct predictions in terms of three organizational conditions, namely, research nature, information asymmetry, and interdependencies.

TL;DR: In this paper, a composite model is developed examining the impact of two different environmental conditions on the occurrence of knowledge spillovers arising from innovation transfer within MNCs, and the results show that competitive pressure in the recipient subsidiary's local environment gives rise to unintentional knowledge spillover, whereas it is negatively related to intentional knowledge diffusion.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the relationship between hotel and chain and find that the relationship is less likely to dissolve when the chain has more operating experience in the hotel's local market, and more likely to dissolve when the chains has more experience in non-local markets.

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.