INTERNATIONAL DIVERSIFICATION AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: THE S-CURVE HYPOTHESIS

By J. Lu, Paul W. Beamish. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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The internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises: the effect of family management, human capital and foreign ownership (2010, background): “This ratio is considered as a proxy of a firm’s technological resources and innovation (Franko, 1989) and is largely used in international business research as a measure of a firm’s intangible assets (Lu and Beamish, 2004).”
What determines the scope of the firm over time and around the world? An Asia Pacific perspective (2007, background): “…here is that internationalization—expansion of geographic scope—does have value (Bodnar et al., 1997; Morck & Yeung, 1991), it is just a matter of what is the limit to geographic expansion, beyond which further expansion may destroy value (Denis et al., 2002; Lu & Beamish, 2004; Nachum, 2004).”
Internationalization and innovation performance of emerging market enterprises: The role of host-country institutional development (2016, background): “Empirical studies also demonstrate how portfolios of firms’ ubsidiaries tap into global reservoirs of knowledge and intangible resources and enhance the entire MNEs’ knowledge bases, capabilities and competitiveness (Kafouros et al, 2012; Lu & Beamish, 2004).”
IPO Research in Management and Entrepreneurship: Moving the Agenda Forward (2009, background): “Reflecting the complex benefits and challenges of international diversification, there is evidence that the international diversification-performance link is S-shaped (Lu & Beamish, 2004).”
Corporate governance, board networks and growth in domestic and international markets: Evidence from India (2017, background): “…shown that developed market firms experience negative performance effect at the low levels of international diversification, which turns positive at the moderate level and again negative at the very high level of international diversification (Contractor, Kundu, & Hsu, 2003; Lu & Beamish, 2004).”
Corporate elite characteristics and firm's internationalization: CEO-level and TMT-level roles (2009, methodology): “This measurement was chosen because unidimensional measures have various problems, including failure to reflect simultaneously the breath and the depth of internationalization (Lu and Beamish 2004).”
Home Country Institutions and the Internationalization-Performance Relationship (2016, background): “Finally, other researchers (e.g., Contractor et al., 2003; Lu & Beamish, 2004; Thomas & Eden, 2004) propose a sigmoid I-P relationship in an effort to synthesize the arguments made by the proponents of both the U-shaped and the inverted U-shaped relationships.”
Influence of the capacities of top management on the internationalization of SMEs (2009, result): “Moreover, some researchers have reported that the relationship is initially positive and then becomes negative (Gomes and Ramaswamy 1999 ), while other studies have identified initially negative relationships that eventually turn into positive relationships (Lu and Beamish 2004 ).”
Multinational Enterprises and Local Contexts: The Opportunities and Challenges of Multiple Embeddedness (2011, positive): “Moreover, the organizational structures and capabilities required to manage multiple embeddedness are often highly complex, and therefore hard for even the leaders of the organization to understand (Lu and Beamish, 2004).”
Firm-Specific Assets, Multinationality, and Financial Performance: A Meta-analytic Review and Theoretical Integration (2011, neutral): “…with other strategic decisions available to a firm, such as marketing program standardization , entry mode choice, scale of entry, and speed of internationalization, can also help in modeling the idiosyncratic differences among firms (cf. Lu & Beamish, 2004; Zahra, Ireland, & Hitt, 2000).”
Multinational Firm Knowledge, use of Expatriates and Foreign Subsidiary Performance (2010, neutral): “Both the parent firm and the expatriate managers should also be cognizant of the fact that the performance benefits of knowledge transfer in international expansion are not always immediately evident (Lu and Beamish, 2004).”
International Entrepreneurship: A Meta–Analysis on the Internationalization and Performance Relationship (2018, background): “However, knowledge also represents a contingency factor in the relationship between internationalization and performance among internationalizing entrepreneurial firms (Li, 2007; Lu & Beamish, 2004).”
International attention and multinational enterprise performance (2008, result): “R&D intensity had a negative influence on MNE performance, consistent with the findings of Lu and Beamish (2004).”