Going international

Peter J. Buckley, Gerald D. Newbould and Jane C. Thurwell
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Peter J. Buckley: University of Bradford
Gerald D. Newbould: Cleveland State University
Jane C. Thurwell: Philips International

Chapter 1 in Foreign Direct Investment by Smaller UK Firms: The Success and Failure of First-Time Investors Abroad, 1988, pp 1-5 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Beating the competition is always satisfying; and beating the competition on their home ground is especially satisfying. This is widely accepted as true in sport, but it is no less so in business. During the interviews on which this report is based, the satisfaction of those managers being interviewed, who had challenged foreign firms in their home market and succeeded, was obvious, and even exciting to both managers and interviewers alike. Of course it is necessary to record as fully those interviews where the venture was a failure and those interviews, embarrassing for all concerned, where the venture was a fiasco. This book concentrates upon these differences in levels of success and failure in going international in the belief that the experiences of the persons interviewed — whether associated with success or failure — contain valuable lessons for other managers considering going international. The lessons should tilt the scales toward success when those other managers make their own firm international.

Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08231-5_1

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