Title: Overcome management bias and win the globalisation and innovation races: a four-step international expansion strategy

Authors: Briance Mascarenhas, Diana L. Day

Addresses: School of Business, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ 08102, USA. ' School of Business, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ 08102, USA

Abstract: With shorter product cycles, firms need to improve their innovation capacity and spread rapidly their innovations abroad before they are imitated or superseded. But when expanding internationally, managers often frame their decisions narrowly, leading to overconfidence and optimism in their market entries. This management bias often leads firms into less attractive markets with large inflexible investments that limit learning and innovation. To overcome this management bias, the article advances a Four-Step Strategy to achieve broad, rapid, deep, and innovative international expansion.

Keywords: market entry; innovation; growth; management bias; globalisation; international expansion strategy; international markets; global markets.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLIC.2005.007028

International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital, 2005 Vol.2 No.2, pp.114 - 127

Published online: 04 May 2005 *

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