On The Mode of International Expansion: The Role of Agency Costs
Abstract
We examine the mode of international expansion as an equilibrium governance contract between home country and host country factor owner. The focus is on agency costs, a form of transactions costs. Two phenomena are shown to be related to the agency costs imposed by factor owners: (i) the choice of different modes of international expansion by one firm in different locations, and (ii) the simultaneous occurrence of several forms of foreign involvement in the same location. We attempt to characterize the dynamic relationship between the mode of an offshore operation and changes in factor market conditions that affect agency costs.
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Citation
Mirus, R. and Yeung, B. (2010), "On The Mode of International Expansion: The Role of Agency Costs", Multinational Business Review, Vol. 18 No. 4, pp. 71-94. https://doi.org/10.1108/1525383X201000020
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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