Surveys of export promotion agencies suggest that that they tend to focus on helping firms become exporters as a means to stimulate aggregate export growth. But the existing empirical evidence has paid little attention to the role of export promotion agencies in helping entry into exporting....

As domestic markets have become saturated, multinational corporations (MNC) are turning their attention to international markets to increase their market share, revenues and their profits. MNCs activities have become increasingly global in scope, whereby going abroad is crucial if they are to...

Chapter 1: Introduction Title -- Chapter 2: Family Firms and International Entry Modes: A State-Of-The-Art -- Chapter 3: The Choice between Wholly Owned Subsidiaries and Joint Ventures within Family Firms: a Theoretical Investigation from the Socioemotional Wealth Perspective -- Chapter 4: The...

We study international market entry in the context of the Internet, and ask: On what basis do U.S. Internet firms choose the markets that they enter? Our baseline hypothesis is that international market entry decisions are based on balancing perceived risks and returns inherent in a foreign...