Japanese manufacturers have reconstituted the Japanese management and production system in Australia at different levels of success since the late 1960s (Hutchinson and Nicholas 1994, Nicholas and Purcell 2001, Purcell et al. 1999). Three of the essential elements of the Japanese system,...

This paper aims at accomplishing three objectives while drawing attention to the speed of adapting international management practices in emerging markets. Firstly, we summarize 67 extant review studies on entry-mode/internationalization, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and diversification....

Contractual buyout (CoBO) is a new “collective ownership and joint administrative strategy”, which gives an opportunity to buy a target firm in the given period when the given contract ends between acquirer, target firm, and financier. It is a takeover defensive method and tends to avail tax...

The extant literature on cross-border mergers and acquisitions suggested that firm-specific, deal-specific, and country-specific determinants affect both negotiation process and post-merger integration. In particular, a great extent of strategy, international business and finance scholars argued...

In the globalization era, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is emerging a debatable hot issue because of its ineffectiveness and poor performance in developing countries, when role of Multinational Corporation (MNC) has been effective as alternative investment in developing countries for...

This study empirically explores factors affecting consumers’ purchase intentions toward foreign products, and their impact magnitudes in six major cities of Vietnam (including Ha Noi, Hai Phong, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh, Binh Duong, and Can Tho). Our results illustrate that Vietnamese consumers’...

The purpose of this paper was to analyze the internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in relation to international market selection (IMS). To accomplish this, an investigation of the primary factors influencing SMEs’ choice when selecting international market in a...

concepts are the basic units of theory development and the building blocks of social research, this is because without well-developed conceptual definitions for the research terms, it is impossible to develop a coherent theory, moreover, it is impossible to develop a valid measure of a concept...

The research presented in this book has been made in a long time-span (1985-1997) to follow the paths of small international companies within an industrial district located in the Italian province of Pesaro, which highlighted a strong presence of district-related economies. It is a development...

Italian Abstract:Il capitolo descrive il processo di internazionalizzazione delle imprese con riferimento a tutti i possibili fronti: non solo l’internazionalizzazione commerciale ma anche quella produttiva, degli acquisti, della ricerca e sviluppo e delle altre attività che l'impresa può...