Walking on thin ice: CEOs′ internationalization decisions in underperforming firms

Internationalization of Chinese firms in Europe

Internationalization of Software Firms Finnish Small and Medium-Sized Internationalization of Software Firms

Ojala, Arto Internationalization of software firms: Finnish small and medium-sized software firms in Japan Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä, 2008, 57 p. (+ articles) (Jyväskylä Studies in Computing, ISSN 1456-5390; 89) ISBN 978-951-39-3251-0 (PDF), 978-951-39-3130-8 (nid.) Finnish summary Diss. This dissertation investigates internationalization of small and medium-sized software firms first ...

Competing on Scale or Scope? Lessons from Chinese Firms’ Internationalization

“What determines the international success and failure of the firm?” is the fundamental issue in strategy (Rumelt, 1974; Peng, 2006). In emerging economies, most scholars have paid attention to how multinational enterprises (MNEs) successfully enter and compete effectively in these countries. However, relatively little is known on how firms in emerging economies develop their strategies to surv...

Incentives for CEOs to Make Decisions

We ask how CEOs should be optimally compensated to make value-maximizing decisions that may cost them their jobs. Examples are the decision to shut down the firm, to give up resistance against a sale or takeover, or to acknowledge failure of the firm’s current business strategy, thus allowing the board to hire a new CEO with a different managerial vision. We find that the CEO’s optimal compensa...

Internationalization Strategies of Chinese Pharmaceutical Firms

Chinese pharmaceutical market value is about USD 110 billion in 2009, and it has become the world’s second largest market. Chinese pharmaceutical firms are becoming a growing player in global pharmaceutical chains. In this paper, sample firms are selected and surveyed with a focus on effective internationalization strategies and paths, through an empirical research, this paper summarizes the in...