Experience and a firm's performance in foreign markets: A commentary essay

Andrew Delios

Journal of Business Research, 2011, vol. 64, issue 2, 227-229

Abstract: Wu and Lin (2010) extend several prominent themes in the experience and subsidiary performance literature in their empirical examination of the foreign expansion of Taiwanese MNEs. This commentary essay considers the themes in Wu and Lin (2010) against the backdrop of the considerable volume of research that has been conducted on experiential learning and firm performance in both the international business and strategy literatures. Five weak axioms about the relationships between experience, foreign market entry strategy, and performance emerge in this review. Based on these weak axioms, the commentary concludes that scholars need to concentrate future research on understanding the management and process-related issues that concern the effective management of a firm's experiential learning processes to foster better capability and knowledge development from a firm's experience, as well as translate such developments into improved performance prospects for a firm.

Keywords: Foreign; expansion; Performance; Experiential; learning; International; business; Subsidiary (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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