Factors influencing the foreign entry mode of Asian and Latin-American banks

Meng-Fen Hsieh, Chung-Hua Shen and Jen-Sin Lee

The Service Industries Journal, 2008, vol. 30, issue 14, 2351-2365

Abstract: The majority of past studies on the foreign market mode of entry have focused on manufacturing industries. Although some studies have explored the entry mode decisions of the banking industry, most of them have adopted the case study method, and systematic studies have been relatively few. This study intends to fill this gap through an investigation of 7041 Asian and Latin-American bank branches covering the period from 1999 to 2005. The analytical results demonstrate that both Asian and Latin-American banks are market seekers. However, Latin-American banks are not customer followers. In addition, the larger the scale of the bank or the greater the net interest margin the more likely it is that high-control entry modes will be adopted. In contrast, in countries in Asia with a greater cultural distance, banks tend to establish low-control entry modes to avoid uncertainty. However, this does not apply in the case of Latin America.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1080/02642060802641567

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