As German firms increasingly expand to foreign nations, managers have to be aware ofthe performance implications of internationalization processes. We find that internationalizationdoes not have an ongoing positive performance effect and needs to be managedcarefully, especially after a certain...

Germany benefits more than any other country from open world markets and their internationalintegration. As a consequence, worldwide trade and cross-boarder investments arethe most important conditions for domestic growth, employment and wealth and Germanfirms are unabatedly going...

Studies examining the effects of culture on intentions and behaviors within organizations, as well as of related cross-cultural differences, often focus on either the direct or moderating effect of single cultural value dimensions, or on the moderating effect of country as a proxy of culture....

Purpose – Structural equation modeling (SEM) has been widely used to examine complex research models in international business and marketing research. While the covariance-based SEM (CB-SEM) approach is dominant, the authors argue that the field's dynamic nature and the sometimes early stage...