This study focuses on the role of geography in foreign subsidiary survival in host countries afflicted with political conflict. We argue that survival is a function of exposure to conflicts, which depends on the characteristics of place (the conflict zone) and space (geographic concentration and...

The resource-based view of the firm is used to develop a causal model for export strategy and performance.After a discussion of the evolution of export research and the resource-based view of the firm, the conceptual model is presented.A number of hypotheses are suggested by the model,...

This study integrates research on the financial performance of multinational firms with research on foreign subsidiary survival. We examined the influences a firm's intangible assets and its experience have on foreign subsidiary survival and profitability using a sample of 3,080 subsidiaries of...

This paper examines the relationships between geographic scope, product diversification and the corporate performance of Japanese multinational enterprises. The model developed and tested in this paper extends research on the geographic scope-performance relationship by exploring both the...

This study integrates research on the financial performance of multinational firms with research on foreign subsidiary survival. We examined the influences a firm's intangible assets and its experience have on foreign subsidiary survival and profitability using a sample of 3,080 subsidiaries of...

This study analyzed data on manufacturing investments of Japanese firms made in nine countries in East and South East Asia to determine how transactional, experience and institutional factors influenced the ownership strategy of these firms. The principal finding in this study is that experience...

We examine the relationships between national ethical environment (NEE) and foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing and developed countries from an institutional theory perspective. Based on an NEE measure developed by Franke and Nadler (2008) and FDI data from the Ministry of Finance of...

We examine how organizational ecology and the strategic choice perspective can be combined to provide more contextualized insights into how multinational corporations (MNCs) can better counter environmental pressures with evolving subnational FDI legitimacy and improve the survival likelihood of...

We examine the link between national ethical attitude and transaction cost economics (TCE) in the context of multinational corporations' (MNCs') subsidiary ownership research. By theoretically distinguishing the TCE assumptions of opportunism and bounded rationality and by linking bounded...

This study examines age dependence in the mortality of multinational corporations’ (MNCs’) subsidiaries by integrating various “theory fragments” of organizational ecology. Using a “nonmonotonic logic”, we hypothesize an inverted S-curve relationship between subsidiary age and...