Purpose : The purpose of this paper is to examine the explanatory power of internationalisation theory for service firms internationalising into China. Design/Methodology/Approach : Interviews were conducted with Australian based 23 service businesses that had entered China. Internationalisation...

This paper indentifies a main barrier when doing business with China, the cultural gap, and provides the strategies that companies can use when entering the Chinese market. This empirical study examined 40 Australian organisations in their activities when entering the Chinese market. Alarmingly...

In the context of burgeoning research on multinational corporations (MNCs), this paper addresses the issue of the representativeness of databases of MNCs in Ireland. It identifies some important deficiencies in existing databases much used by scholars in the field. Drawing on the international...