CEO Experiences: Effects on the Choice of FDI Entry Mode

By P. Herrmann, Deepak K. Datta. 2006

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Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

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The influence of CEO demographic characteristics on corporate risk-taking: evidence from Chinese IPOs (2016, background): “Herrmann and Datta (2006) argue that professional experience is one of the main determinants of CEOs’ ability to make strategic decisions.”
Do Foreign Greenfields Outperform Foreign Acquisitions or Vice Versa? An Institutional Perspective (2008, neutral): “Foreign entry mode decisions are an important research topic in the international management (IM) literature (Brouthers and Hennart, 2007; Herrmann and Datta, 2006).”
The role of top management team international orientation in international strategic decision-making: The choice of foreign entry mode (2011, background): “…firm, industry and country characteristics (for reviews, see Brouthers & Hennart, 2007; Kumar & Subramaniam, 1997), it largely neglects to account for the individuals and teams making the actual decisions (for notable exceptions, see Herrmann & Datta, 2002, 2006 on the role of CEO characteristics).”
Boundaries of the Firm: Insights From International Entry Mode Research (2007, background): “In that case hierarchical coordination (through WOS or JV) is the optimal solution (Williamson, 1985). A good deal of empirical evidence supports this view. In the aluminum industry, Stuckey (1983) has shown that, in the presence of asset specificity, interdependent parties will sign long-term contr”
Foreign market entry mode choice of small and medium-sized enterprises: A systematic review and future research agenda (2014, background): “Other scholars emphasize the importance of CEO demographic characteristics in strategic decisions, particular when choosing an appropriate foreign market entry mode (e.g., Herrmann & Datta, 2006; Nielsen & Nielsen, 2011).”
Culture's Impact on the Importance of Fairness in Interorganizational Relationships (2013, positive): “Following convention in the foreign market entry literature regarding international experience (Gatignon and Anderson 1988; Herrmann and Datta 2006), we used a two-item measure of the relative amount of business accounted for by imported (vs. domestic) goods as a proxy for the magnitude of cultural…”
Top Management Team Internationalization and Firm Performance (2010, background): “Accordingly, internationalized TMTs are likely to look favorable upon foreign direct investments as they perceive foreign expansion as being less risky compared to executives without such backgrounds and experiences ( Herrmann and Datta 2006 ).”
Do CEOs Matter to Firm Strategic Actions and Firm Performance? A Meta-Analytic Investigation Based on Upper Echelons Theory (2016, methodology): “Measures of international diversification include number of foreign subsidiaries (e.g., production facilities; Herrmann & Datta, 2006), foreign sales as a percentage of total sales (Gomez-Mejia, Makri, & Larraza-Kintana, 2010), foreign assets as a percentage of total assets (Sanders & Carpenter,…”
Internationalization and firm performance of SMEs: The moderating effects of CEO attributes (2013, background): “Some scholars argue that the inconsistent findings result from a lack of uniformity in the key dependent (performance) variables and the doubtful validity of the independent (internationalization) variables (Hitt et al., 2006). Lu and Beamish (2004) suggest that the conflicting findings may result f”
Board Characteristics, Managerial Incentives, and the Choice Between Foreign Acquisitions and International Joint Ventures (2009, background): “This result is consistent with prior research (e.g., Herrmann & Datta, 2006; Kogut & Singh, 1988; Quer, Claver, & Andreu, 2007) and implies that firms rely on joint ventures to limit resource commitments and risk in culturally distant markets (Grosse & Trevino, 1996).”
Challenging the Conceptualization and Measurement of Distance and International Experience in Entry Mode Choice Research (2009, background): “…the empirical studies incorporating international experience as a predictor variable for entry mode selection (e.g., Gatignon and Anderson 1988; Herrmann and Datta 2006) have used overall international experience (measured in years, number of countries, or percentage of assets) as their sole…”