This chapter is from the book "Conquering Global Markets: Secrets from the World's Most Successful Multinationals" which presents the findings of one of the largest research projects undertaken of its type. Senior executives from fifty multinational companies from sixteen countries were...

Using plausibly exogenous variation in Chinese imports, we provide evidence that firms strategically announce capacity expansions when facing entry threats. We first construct and validate a novel text-based measure of voluntary disclosure that reflects firms' explicit forward-looking statements...

This paper reviews and criticizes in depth the empirical literature on foreign entry mode choice providing a motivation to perform a robustness analysis. Through a review of the theoretical approaches behind each study, as well as by comparing the way theoretical constructs are operationalized,...

By definition, de novo industry ventures do not share many market-contact points with incumbents – itself an important source of competitive ‘stability' through mutual forbearance. As such, these ventures are often subject to aggressive retaliation at the outset, which could threaten their...

It is now stylized that the importance of FDI for developing countries and emerging markets arise from the impact of the presence of multinational corporations (MNCs) in the host country on the productivity of the local firms, by way of technology diffusion and competition. There is also general...