The purpose of this paper is to determine how aspects of organisational culture, typical to family businesses, influence internationalisation. Proposing that stewardship orientation, family commitment culture and top management team related factors influence internationalisation; we empirically...

The Multinational Subsidiary is conceptualized as a semi-autonomous entity with entrepreneurial potential, within a complex competitive arena, consisting of an internal environment of other subsidiaries, internal customers and suppliers, and an external environment consisting of customers,...

In this paper we examine the location determinants of the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Poland, at a regional level. Using survey data from an on-line questionnaire in February 2005 and a multinomial logit model incorporating the investor's specific characteristics, we show that...

Using Brooke's (Centralization and autonomy. A study in organization behaviour, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, London and New York, 1984) work as a starting point, this article provides an evaluation and critique of the literature on centralization and autonomy, with particular reference to the...

This paper undertakes an exploratory study into the characteristics of entrepreneurial culture of the multinational subsidiary; and, into the associated influences and manifestations linked to multinational corporation (MNC) and environmental contexts. The theme of multinational subsidiary...

The paper explores the strategic intentions of Japanese companies in establishing manufacturing subsidiaries in Europe; examines the types of strategies which have been pursued within these subsidiaries and reviews their performance against established criteria. Within the context of related...