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...

We adopt and develop an institutional perspective to advance our understanding of how host country environments influence subsidiary staffing strategies. We propose and find that firms rely more on parent company nationals (expatriates) in institutionally distant environments for reasons related...

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...