Multinational Business Review: Volume 16 Issue 4

Strategic Inertia and the Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry

Stephanie Slater, Stan Paliwoda, Jim Slater

This paper examines the behaviour of Japanese pharmaceutical corporations in the light of recent merger activity, questioning strategic momentum theory given the particularly…

International Franchise Expansion: Does Market Propinquity Matter?

Richard C. Hoffman, Joel F. Kincaid, John F. Preble

Consistent with traditional internationalization theory, we argue that, when a firm chooses franchising to achieve market penetration, market propinquity/similarity matters. Using…

Empirical Evidence on Trade Reform, Revealed Trade Openness, and Output Growth in Latin America. How Far Have We Come?

Gustavo A. Barboza, Sandra R. Trejos

Free trade reform promotes and consolidates businesses’ orientation to international markets. Using a sample of twenty Latin American countries, this study finds support for the…

Korean Workers’ Motivation Tools: Commitment and Incentive‐Based Motivation and Their Relative Impact on Behavioral Work Outcome

Keun S. Lee, Songpol Kulviwat

This research examines the linkage between commitment (organizational and job), motivation (intrinsic and extrinsic), and work outcomes (effort and propensity to leave) using the…