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Top Management Team Internationalization and Firm Performance

The Mediating Role of Foreign Market Entry

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Erschienen in: Management International Review | Ausgabe 2/2010

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This paper develops a multi-dimensional construct of top management team (TMT) internationalization reflecting TMT ability to deal with challenges of managing firm foreign operations in the process of ongoing globalization.
Drawing upon upper echelons and firm internationalization theories, the relationships between TMT internationalization, foreign market entry and performance are empirically investigated in a sample of 165 Swiss listed companies.
The results confirm the validity of the multi-dimensional construct and suggest that TMT internationalization leads to subsequent foreign market entries, which in turn are positively related to firm performance.

Vorheriger Artikel Resource Dependence and Cross-border Constraint-absorption

Nächster Artikel Perceptions of Institutional Environment and Entry Mode

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Titel: Top Management Team Internationalization and Firm Performance
The Mediating Role of Foreign Market Entry
verfasst von: Ass. Prof. Sabina Nielsen
Publikationsdatum: 01.04.2010
Verlag: SP Gabler Verlag
Erschienen in: Management International Review / Ausgabe 2/2010
Print ISSN: 0938-8249
Elektronische ISSN: 1861-8901
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11575-010-0029-0

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