Expatriate Managers, Product Relatedness, and IJV Performance: A Resource and Knowledge-based Perspective

Dev K. Dutta and Paul W. Beamish

Journal of International Management, 2013, vol. 19, issue 2, 152-162

Abstract: Drawing from the resource and knowledge-based perspectives, we examine the role expatriates play as a critical managerial resource within the multinational's international joint-venture (IJV). By using a large sample (3772 IJV annual performance years) of Japanese IJVs in the USA from 1991 to 2001, we find that expatriate deployment shows a curvilinear (inverted-U) relationship with IJV performance. Further, this relationship is positively moderated by product relatedness between the parent and the IJV.

Keywords: Managerial resources; Expatriates; International joint ventures (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2012.11.002

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