The effect of multinationality measures upon the risk-return performance of US firms

Gongming Qian

International Business Review, 1996, vol. 5, issue 3, 247-265

Abstract: This study analyses the effect of a firm's overseas activities upon its risk-return performance for a sample of US firms (including multinational enterprises and domestic firms) by using different multinationality measures. The test results indicate that firms with a greater share of overseas activities have a greater opportunity to achieve a better risk-return performance than those with little foreign involvement. More importantly, for a firm which meets the basic requirement of multinationality (for MNEs as a whole), the number of foreign markets served has a minimal influence on its performance.

Keywords: Multinationality; Risk-Return; Performance; US; Firms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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