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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Foreign Market"”.
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The Role Of Director Interlocks On A Firm's Choice Of Foreign Market Entry Mode
… it can have an influence on a firm’s choice of foreign market entry mode. A review of foreign market entry mode literature has indicated a lack of research from the perspective of decision makers in a firm, particularly the board of directors. While literature recognises the influence of …
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Configuration, Coordination, Learning And Foreign Market Entry: A Study Of Canadian Software Companies Entering The United States
… Canadian software companies in the United States market. More specifically, this research tested a model suggesting that performance was significantly influenced by three variables. These variables were the interdependent nature of company working relationships, the configuration or entry strategy …
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Affect, Attitude, and Meaning: Assessing the Universality of Design in a Transnational Marketing Context
… the universality of design in a transnational marketing context. Specifically, it looks into designers' expertise transfer and knowledge calibration across cultures and explores cross-cultural differences in consumer responses (affect, attitude, and meaning) to design in two studies. With 256 …
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The Multinational Enterprise
This thesis analyzes the strategic market entry decisions of multinational enterprises. The dissertation is organized in four chapters. Chapter 1 serves as an introduction and describes the recent trends and relevant literature as regards this form of international capital flows. Chapter 2 and …
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Entry modes and performance of foreign direct investment in China
How does a firm choose a proper model of foreign direct investment (FDI) for entering a foreign market? Which mode of entry performs better? What are the performance implications of joint venture (JV) ownership structure? These important questions face a multinational enterprise (MNE) that decides …
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Essays on Productive Efficiency, Trade, and Market Power: Evidence from African Manufacturing Firms
… firms, and effect of liberalisation policies on market power and market imperfections. The thesis combines two main strands in economics literature in accessing the three main themes of the papers. The first strand regards methodological approaches to estimate a production function from which …
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The Burley Tobacco Buyout Program and Its Impact on Farmers in Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina.
… in this region appears to be bleak because of foreign market competition and decreasing domestic demand. From the personal interviews, many farmers had already abandoned tobacco production and older respondents were often planning to stop all farming practices. Specifics of the federal …
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The South African textile industry : opportunities and constraints with particular reference to environmental issues and eco-labelling
… globalisation, increased competition, improved foreign market access and important environmental issues. Critical challenges facing the South African textile industry, and that in many other developing and developed countries, include the increased need for international competitiveness, the …
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Tariffs and stock returns : the effect of U.S. tariffs and Canadian, Chinese and European retaliatory tariffs in 2018
… Firstly, that the announcement of tariffs in one market would lead to average abnormal returns, either positive or negative, for companies in that market. Secondly, that the announcement of tariffs in one market would lead to average abnormal returns, either positive or negative, for companies in …
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Challenges Caused by Socioemotional Wealth and Their Management During the Internationalization of Family Firms
… which SEW dimensions facilitate or impede foreign market entry, and employing cluster analysis to distinguish different firm profiles. The research contributes to the theoretical integration of SEW and EO, provides empirical evidence on the relationship between SEW dimensions and …
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Three essays in financial economics
… asks the question: Do investors pay attention to foreign market conditions when they evaluate multinational corporations? Using geographic segment disclosures by U.S. multinational companies, I find that stock prices do not promptly incorporate information regarding changes in foreign market …
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Transportation context of Latin American logistics
… for the first time or even just into a type of foreign market that is very different from previous experience can find the learning curve steep and their ce-reliable intuition no longer useful. Penetrating such a market requires a taut supply chain and while there are many facets to any supply …
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Effects of foreign exchange listing on the returns of South African companies
… a number of companies that seek dual listing in foreign stock markets. The number of foreign companies that are listed in the United States alone are above 3000. Companies seek foreign exchange listing for a number of reasons including the access to foreign capital, visibility in the foreign …
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Essays on International and Environmental Economics
… produces a composite good exclusively for the foreign market. The results suggest that trade transmission can account for 67% of the fall in output in Canada, 24% of the fall in output in Mexico, and about two-thirds of the fall in trade for both countries. The counterfactual experiments find …
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Adoption of foreign institutional practices and industrial development: Understanding the cross-level interaction effects
Foreign market knowledge has been at the epicentre of international business research for decades and differences in institutional practices across countries have been found to influence performance of internationalised firms. Dominant scholarship in this area has been significantly influenced by …
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DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERNATIONALIZATION STRATEGY TO EFFECTIVELY MARKET PAKISTAN SMEs PRODUCTS TO EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
… SMEs are not actively serving the international market because of their weak business strategy and market barriers faced in the global marketplace. This study focuses on the strategy and methods used by the SMEs of Pakistan to enter the international market. The upstream and downstream …
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The inner life of a born-global family firm: the nexus between internationalisation, social capital and organisational change
… trust, collaboration, and agility in adapting to foreign market demands. However, as APV underwent structural transformation aimed at enhancing efficiency after a critical incident, tensions emerged between family and non-family employees, leading to a decline in trust and engagement as non-family …
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Essays on international economics
… at home and abroad depends on firms domestic and foreign market shares and also the sector of the firm. Our estimations show that exit of a large firm or a productivity increase of 10% could have significant welfare impacts on consumers up to 1%. Our results also highlight the importance of …
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Essays in Trade and Uncertainty
… of uncertainty. Firms’ decisions to enter new foreign markets, exit from foreign markets that they are currently serving and whether to vertically integrate or outsource with foreign firms (i.e. their global sourcing decisions). Not only do these decisions require high sunk costs (cf. Roberts …
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Cultural attitudes to corruption : a perspective on the interplay between cultural and legal norms for Western businesses operating in China
… as businesses look to enter any such important foreign market, the strategic impact of cultural factors should be taken into account. The thesis begins with an introduction to the legal framework surrounding corruption, both from a Chinese and an international point of view. It continues with a …
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