This paper investigates how changes in firm degree of internationalization (DOI) are associated with the configuration of top management teams (TMT) based on a dataset of 41 large European firms in the banking and insurance industry, including detailed career profiles of the 264 executives that were serving on the TMTs of these firms at year-end 2002. Our findings suggest firms tend to match to...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) constitute an important part of economic growth and dynamics not only for advanced industrialized countries but also for developing economies. Three approaches explaining the behaviors of SMEs’ internationalization are proposed in the literature: the stage approach, the network approach and the international entrepreneurship approach. The purpose of thi...

In recent years, the debate about climate change and the competitiveness of multinational corporations (MNCs) has increased. Decision-makers in MNCs often face ambiguities on how their business competitiveness could be impacted by their actions to mitigate climate change. By combining knowledge from the field of climatology with the management literature, this study suggests that climate change...

Many algorithm animation tools have been developed over the last years.The users of such tools can be separated into four roles: the original algorithm programmer, developers of the animation tool, visualizers that generate the animation and end users viewing the animation. Most tools focus on providing features for only one or at most two of these roles.The ANIMAL system is designed to present...

Internationalization enables companies to reach a global audience by adapting their websites to locale specific language and content. However, such translations can often introduce Internationalization Presentation Failures (IPFs) — distortions in the intended appearance of a website. It is challenging for developers to design websites that can inherently adapt to varying lengths of text from d...

In this paper we describe a general scheme for internationalization of our talking head, Baldi, to speak other languages. We describe the modular structure of the auditory/visual synthesis software. As an example, we have created a synthetic Arabic talker, which is evaluated using a noisy word recognition task comparing this talker with a natural one.

The paper develops an argument concerning the pluralistic character of the process of globalization, as contrasted with the conventional account that sees global processes creating uniformity and convergence. This alternative account is based on a series of case studies of latecomer and newcomer multinational corporations, such as Acer, Ispat International, Li & Fung and the Hong Leong Group; a...