Determinants of entry strategies of U.S. companies into Russia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Romania

Factors enhancing the choice of higher resource commitment entry modes in international new ventures

“…Factors that influence entry mode decisions are often classified into host country-specific variables, home country-specific variables, company-specific variables, and venture-specific variables (Hill et al 1990;Sarkar and Cavusgil 1996;Malhotra et al 2004;Tsang 2005). External factors are frequently shown to exert a strong influence on the entry mode decision (Shama 2000;Zhao et al 2004;Tihanyi et al 2005). The specific characteristics of a foreign market are seen to be essential when choosing an entry mode (Yiu and Makino 2002;Quer et al 2007).…”

Stock market reactions to entry mode choices of multinational hotel firms

“…Finally, the host country's environmental factors encompassed economic, political and socio-cultural factors in addition to the geographical distance to the home country. Shama (2000) empirically investigated the relative importance of a number of these factors on the choice of entry mode made by U.S. multinational firms in eastern European countries. Based on the responses of executives from 101 U.S. companies to a mailed questionnaire, the author found that the economic outlook of the host country, the level of competition, the year of entry of the firm in the host market, as well as the type of activities performed by these firms were the most important factors influencing the choice of entry mode.…”

Foreign Entry Modes as a Function of Age among Small Businesses in Kampala, Uganda

“…This paper therefore concentrates Leih and Teece (2014) pointed out that foreign market entry modes or strategies refer to a business's goals, plans and decisions in regard to which foreign market to enter, when to enter, and how to enter. Foreign entry strategy is the way used by a firm to start doing business in a foreign country (Shama, 2000); it is a business's attempt or drive that makes possible the entry of firm's products, technology, human skills, or other resources into a foreign country (Karkkainen, 2005). The many forms of market entry strategy can be categorized between equity and non-equity modes.…”