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

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the role of strategy and other organizational forces on the performance of globally focused marketing organizations in Norway, Sweden, and the United States, and found that the constructs of leadership, strategy, and culture precede the globally-focused marketing organization's structure.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that both deeper international experience and broader international experience increase the likelihood of implementing a mode elevation rather than a mode duplication due to the higher complexity of the former.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the strategies used by sovereign wealth fund (SWF) investments in their cross-border investments and find that fund opacity, fund politicization, strategic industry targets, and majority ownership choices lead to a more likely use of vehicles, while bilateral trade agreements negatively affect such investment strategy.

TL;DR: In this article, an important task following international acquisitions is to coordinate customer relationships; that is, to organize customer interfaces and possibly establish new relationships between cu..., i.e., customer relationships.

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.