TY - JOUR
T1 - Organizational slack and firm's internationalization
T2 - A longitudinal study of high-technology firms
AU - Lin, Wen Ting
AU - Cheng, Kuei Yang
AU - Liu, Yunshi
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank JWB Editors, professor Pervez Ghauri and professor John Slocum, and two anonymous reviewers for their detail and valuable comments and suggestions. This research was supported by National Science Council (NSC-91-2416-H-029-003).
PY - 2009/10
Y1 - 2009/10
N2 - We employ both organization theory and economic theory for exploring how the effects of high-discretion organizational slack and low-discretion organizational slack impact the degree of firm's internationalization. We tested hypotheses using longitudinal data (2000-2005) from 179 high-technology publicly listed companies in Taiwan. The results indicate a U-shaped relationship exists between high-discretion organizational slack and the internationalization of firms. In contrast, low-discretion organizational slack presents a positive linear relationship with the internationalization of firms.
AB - We employ both organization theory and economic theory for exploring how the effects of high-discretion organizational slack and low-discretion organizational slack impact the degree of firm's internationalization. We tested hypotheses using longitudinal data (2000-2005) from 179 high-technology publicly listed companies in Taiwan. The results indicate a U-shaped relationship exists between high-discretion organizational slack and the internationalization of firms. In contrast, low-discretion organizational slack presents a positive linear relationship with the internationalization of firms.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jwb.2008.11.003
DO - 10.1016/j.jwb.2008.11.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:69749111005
SN - 1090-9516
VL - 44
SP - 397
EP - 406
JO - Journal of World Business
JF - Journal of World Business
IS - 4
ER -