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방호열(Ho Yeol Bang) 한국국제통상학회 1998 국제통상연구 Vol.3 No.2
Conventional foreign direct investment(FDI) theories assume that ownership of firm-specific assets motives FDI to exploit them in foreign markets. Conventional theories, therefore, can not explain how Korean firms which did not own strong firm-specific assets overcame their organizational weakness and entry barriers to foreign markets, and how they created subsidiaries` competitive advantages. Strategic linkage theory and network approach can complement the conventional theories by explaining that Korean firms could overcame their weakness by exploiting foreign network resources. This paper contends FDI is a strategic means to gain access to foreign network resources. We tried to classify the types of Korean firms` international strategies and their implications for performance. We could not find empirical evidence to support our hypotheses that international strategies for strengthening strategic linkage give positive effects on performance.
방호열(Ho Yeol Bang) 한국국제통상학회 2000 국제통상연구 Vol.5 No.2
Whether local managerial systems and practices converge into the global standard is a very interesting and important question. As a first step to answer this question, this study examines the differences and similarities between Korean and Taiwanese small and medium-sized firms. Comparative analysis focuses to the variables related with internationalization process. They includes corporate culture(international orientation, problem solving behavior), human resources management system, strategy types and competitive advantages. And it examines whether or not fitness among corporate culture, strategy types, competitive advantages is achieved. Then the impact of fitness on performance is examined. According to strategic management literatures, strong fitness leads to higher performance. Empirical testing of four hypotheses uses data collected by means of direct interviews and a questionnaire survey. The major findings of this comparative study is as follows. Even though the hypotheses are partially accepted, the results indicate that firms with fitted resources with fitted strategies perform better than unfitted ones. The most interest finding is the fitness between two cultural dimensions which are international orientation and problem solving behavior.
한국 중소기업의 모방적 해외직접투자: 사회적 영향과정을 중심으로
방호열 ( Bang Ho Yeol ) 한국국제통상학회 2003 국제통상연구 Vol.8 No.1
The weakness of small and medium sized firms(SMFs) become more saliant on entering the international market place. The shortage of resource and information of SMFs makes their managers face the greater uncertain environment. The previous studies show that the conventional theory was not satisfactory in explaining Korean SMFs` foreign direct investment. In this paper a new conceptual framework was developed to explain the Korean SMFs` foreign direct investment. The framework was based on both the network(or relational) view and social influence perspective. The foreign direct investment of a SMF can be decided as a result of imitating the first mover`s action. This imitating decision making has merit and can be a second best choice for managers who do not have enough information to make the right decision. The conceptual framework theorized this imitation behavior into two separate but interrelated processes. Five hypothesis were developed, and tested using the data collected through the questionnaire method.
방호열(Ho Yeol Bang),차영진(Young Jin Cha) 한국경영학회 1997 經營學硏究 Vol.26 No.3
Increasing internationalization of Korean firms necessitates the research efforts to explain their performance resulting from foreign entry strategies. The previous studies, however, are unsatisfactory in this matter. This article tries to identify determinants of the performance of Korean firms` foreign subsidiaries. After classifying samples into high-performance group and low-performance one, two groups were compared with each other in terms of five factors, that is ① strategic types, ② strategic fit, ③ internal capabilities, ④ similarity in capabilities between headquarters and subsidiaries, ⑤ motives of foreign direct investment. The results showed that the performance of foreign subsidiaries varied according to the strategic types employed by them. In terms of internal capabilities and similarity in capabilities, there were found the significant differences between high and low performance group. However in motives of foreign direct investment there was no significant difference between two groups. When it comes to strategic fit, the result was in contradiction to theoretical expectation. Considering that conceptualizations of fit and their testing schemes are diverse, we must be cautious in interpreting the result.