Performance Effects of Multinationality

• Main Author: Ral-Trebacz, Arkadiusz
• Other Authors: Technische Universität Dresden, Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften
• Format: Doctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden 2017
• Subjects: Multinationalität; Internationalität; Unternehmenserfolg; Heimatregion; immaterielle Vermögensgegenstände; firmenspezifische Vorteile; europäische Unternehmen; Regionalisierung; Strategie; internationale Unternehmen; multinationality; performance; multinational companies; firm-specific assets; regionalization; strategy; european firms; home region; intangible assets; ddc:330; rvk:QP 305
• Online Access: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-218830; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-218830; http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/21883/Dissertation_final_Ral-Trebacz_PDFA.pdf

The performance effects of multinationality have been subject to extensive study over the last four decades. To date, the findings of empirical studies have not been able to demonstrate a consistent picture as far as the relationship between multinationality (M) and performance (P) is concerned; nor have they established a general link. This dissertation suggests that the M-P relation might be contingent upon certain contextual considerations. In particular, this doctoral thesis examines the performance effects of multinationality depending on a) scope of international expansion (regional vs. global); b) the role of firm-specific assets (FSAs) and c) home region effects.