L<sc>ee</sc> I. H., H<sc>ong</sc> E. and S<sc>un</sc> L. Inward foreign direct investment and domestic entrepreneurship: a regional analysis of new firm creation in Korea, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper assesses the intra- and inter-regional impacts of inward foreign direct investment on the decisions of establishing new...

Summary Drawing from the resource-based view, we investigate how firm and country combinations affect international SME performance. Using a sample of 2676 international Korean SMEs, we explore the relationships among SME R&D investment, home region orientation and financial performance. Results...

This study assesses whether and to what extent new knowledge available in a region and its surrounding regions induces and facilitates new firm creation, an important topic that is largely left untested in the literature. Using a full population firm-level dataset of 44,434 newly created...

Using original data on large Korean multinational enterprises (MNEs), this paper examines the impact that their firm-specific advantages (FSAs) have on performance as and when they receive inward direct investment from foreign countries. Two types of FSAs are examined: innovation capabilities...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between foreign subsidiary staffing and subsidiary performance by focussing on two staffing practices: first, the ratio of parent country nationals (PCNs) to foreign subsidiary employees and second, the number of PCNs assigned...

Building upon the notion of behavioral means of control, this paper contends that the level of cultural knowledge of expatriates plays a critical role in determining the effectiveness of expatriates as a means of control over international subsidiaries of multinational corporations (MNCs). An...

Real options investments are expected to take their greatest value during periods of abnormally high uncertainty. This important proposition of real options is empirically difficult to test, since one cannot readily find such well-defined unanticipated periods affecting large numbers of firms....

In international joint ventures (IJVs), partner firms exert three types of management control: output, process, and social. Since management control critically influences IJV success, it is essential to understand what factors drive the development of the control system. Prior studies have...