We examine the timing of foreign market entry by extending neoinstitutional theory's predictions about imitative influences on market entry rates, to include elements of a firm's competitive environment. Our focal construct is a bunched entry, which we define as a foreign market entry made as a...

We extend the stages model of internationalization to incorporate a sophisticated consideration of temporal and cross-national variation in the credibility of the policy environment. Using a sample of 6,570 international expansions of 665 Japanese manufacturing firms, we build on the concepts of...