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International Expansion of Telecommunication Carriers: The Influence of Market Structure, Network Characteristics, and Entry Imperfections
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In this paper, the authors examine the internationalization process of telecommunication carriers and argue that early entrants gain substantial first-mover advantages due to the transient nature of the windows of market opportunity, and the potential to influence the regulatory process as an incumbent.Abstract:
This paper examines the internationalization process of telecommunication carriers. In this industry, early entrants gain substantial first-mover advantages due to the transient nature of the windows of market opportunity, and the potential to influence the regulatory process as an incumbent. To capture these strategic and economic advantages, firms follow a strategy of preemption, both of markets and partners. The authors argue for the need to augment prevailing theory with contextual idiosyncrasies that characterize specific industries.read more
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Home country environments, corporate diversification strategies, and firm performance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between corporate diversification strategies and firm performance and suggested that these relationships are related to home country environments and found that the relationships were related to the home country environment.
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The American Model of the Multinational Firm and the “New” Multinationals From Emerging Economies
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The American Model of the Multinational Firm and the "New" Multinationals From Emerging
TL;DR: In the last two decades, new MNEs from emerging, upper-middle-income, or oil-rich countries have followed completely different patterns of international expansion as discussed by the authors, and to what extent we need a new theory to explain their international growth.
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International Diversification: Antecedents, Outcomes, and Moderators:
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Alliance Competence, Resources, and Alliance Success: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Initial Test:
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TL;DR: In this paper, a model of the internationalization process of a firm focusing on the gradual acquisition, integration and use of knowledge about foreign markets and operations, and on the incrementally increasing commitments to foreign markets is developed.
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The Effect of National Culture on the Choice of Entry Mode
Bruce Kogut,Harbir Singh +1 more
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The Eclectic Paradigm of International Production: A Restatement and Some Possible Extensions
TL;DR: The authors reviewed some of the criticisms directed towards the eclectic paradigm of international production over the past decade, and restates its main tenets, concluding that it remains a robust general framework for explaining and analysing not only the economic rationale of economic production but many organisational and impact issues in relation to MNE activity as well.
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The future of the multinational enterprise
Peter J. Buckley,Mark Casson +1 more
TL;DR: A long-run theory of the multinational enterprise alternative theories of the Multinational Enterprise has been proposed in this article, and the World's Largest Firms Predictions and Policy Implications Index has been developed.
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First‐mover advantages
TL;DR: Theoretical and empirical literature on mechanisms that confer advantages and disadvantages on first-mover firms are surveyed and recommendations are given for future research.