Global Mindset and Entry Mode Decisions: The Moderating Roles of Managers’ Decision-Making Style and Managerial Experience

From the managerial cognition perspective, we develop a contingency framework that empirically examines the effect of senior managers’ global mindset on their decisions regarding the choice of entry mode for foreign subsidiaries and how their cognitive decision-making style and managerial experience...

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Main Authors: Jiang, Fuming, Ananthram, Subra, Li, Forest
Format: Journal Article
Published: Gabler Verlag 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/68991
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Li, Forest
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description From the managerial cognition perspective, we develop a contingency framework that empirically examines the effect of senior managers’ global mindset on their decisions regarding the choice of entry mode for foreign subsidiaries and how their cognitive decision-making style and managerial experience interact with their global mindset and thereby affect their decisions. Data were collected from both headquarters and subsidiary senior managers of 345 Chinese multinational enterprises. The results show that senior managers who exhibit a stronger global mindset tend to choose a lower-level ownership entry mode for their foreign subsidiaries. This tendency is stronger when senior managers possess a ‘thinking’ decision-making style as opposed to a ‘feeling’ decision-making style but weaker when senior managers have more experience in their managerial positions.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-689912018-06-29T12:35:58Z Global Mindset and Entry Mode Decisions: The Moderating Roles of Managers’ Decision-Making Style and Managerial Experience Jiang, Fuming Ananthram, Subra Li, Forest From the managerial cognition perspective, we develop a contingency framework that empirically examines the effect of senior managers’ global mindset on their decisions regarding the choice of entry mode for foreign subsidiaries and how their cognitive decision-making style and managerial experience interact with their global mindset and thereby affect their decisions. Data were collected from both headquarters and subsidiary senior managers of 345 Chinese multinational enterprises. The results show that senior managers who exhibit a stronger global mindset tend to choose a lower-level ownership entry mode for their foreign subsidiaries. This tendency is stronger when senior managers possess a ‘thinking’ decision-making style as opposed to a ‘feeling’ decision-making style but weaker when senior managers have more experience in their managerial positions. 2018 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/68991 10.1007/s11575-018-0348-0 Gabler Verlag restricted
spellingShingle Jiang, Fuming
Ananthram, Subra
Li, Forest
Global Mindset and Entry Mode Decisions: The Moderating Roles of Managers’ Decision-Making Style and Managerial Experience
title Global Mindset and Entry Mode Decisions: The Moderating Roles of Managers’ Decision-Making Style and Managerial Experience
title_full Global Mindset and Entry Mode Decisions: The Moderating Roles of Managers’ Decision-Making Style and Managerial Experience
title_fullStr Global Mindset and Entry Mode Decisions: The Moderating Roles of Managers’ Decision-Making Style and Managerial Experience
title_full_unstemmed Global Mindset and Entry Mode Decisions: The Moderating Roles of Managers’ Decision-Making Style and Managerial Experience
title_short Global Mindset and Entry Mode Decisions: The Moderating Roles of Managers’ Decision-Making Style and Managerial Experience
title_sort global mindset and entry mode decisions: the moderating roles of managers’ decision-making style and managerial experience
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/68991