Internationalisation and Performance Exploring Measurement Issues and the Impact of Measurement Alternatives
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: Chapter 1 Overview and Aims 1The field of inquiry on the relationship between internationalisation and performance is well developed in the domain of international business research.There is still much scope, however, to contribute to this body of research and extend its frontiers.A re-examination of this core international business debate is of critical importance as no broad consensus has been achieved on the nature of this relationship in spite of efforts spanning five decades of research in the field.Although no broad consensus has been achieved in this debate thus far, the pace of firm internationalisation continues unabated, thus presenting an urgent challenge to the international business field of research to play a significant role in informing management and policy decision-making with the end in view of minimising negative effects while maximising gains in the internationalisation process.This chapter briefly presents the current state of the debate on internationalisation and performance, and the contribution of the currently unfolding literature on regionalisation in presenting additional empirical and theoretical dimensions to the more developed internationalisation-performance discourse.This brief review is intended to provide an overview of the conceptual and empirical problems that underpin the scholarly discussions.This then establishes the context of this thesis, which focuses specifically on the impact of internationalisation and performance measures employed on the resulting shape of the relationship between these two variables.Finally, the main research question and objectives are presented in this chapter, along with the approach and structure of the thesis. Background and RationaleStudies on the processes and patterns of firm internationalisation and studies of the impact of this internationalisation effort on firm performance both lie at the heart of international business research.After 50 years of research, however, this relationship is still not well understood (Thomas & Eden, 2004).This chapter briefly reviews the literature on internationalisation and performance and explores the contributions of the regionalisation versus globalisation discourse to the internationalisation-performance debates.The chapter also briefly draws on discussions regarding the theoretical underpinnings of the relationship between internationalisation and performance, and concludes that underlying 1 Material from this chapter has been drawn on for an article published as follows: Seno-Alday, Sandra.2009.
Author: Sandra Seno‐Alday
Language: English
Subfield: Strategy and Management
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W175252322