 Making the foreign familiar: The influence of top management team and board of directors characteristics on the adoption of foreign practicesDonghoon Shin, Russell Seidle and Ilya Okhmatovskiy Journal of World Business, 2016, vol. 51, issue 6, 937-949 Abstract: This paper examines the firm-level antecedents of Six Sigma adoption in Korea. Our results indicate that firms with top executives and board members having work experience in the foreign country where the focal management practice originated and was popularized are more likely to adopt this practice. Furthermore, firms’ exposure to foreign investors exerts a direct effect and also moderates the impact of foreign work experience on adoption. Prior work experience in the country of practice origin reduces the uncertainty inherent in cross-border adoption by providing executives and board members with greater insight into the presumed benefits of the focal practice. Keywords: Foreign practice adoption; Six Sigma; Upper echelons theory; Foreign ownership (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:worbus:v:51:y:2016:i:6:p:937-949 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2016.09.003 Access Statistics for this article Journal of World Business is currently edited by David Collings and Jonathan Doh More articles in Journal of World Business from Elsevier |
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