Lailani L. Alcantara

The link between societal motivation and new venture performance: evidence from entrepreneurs in Japan

Although there has been an increase in the popularity of social entrepreneurship, previous studies have paid little attention to for-profit entrepreneurs’ motive of making a contribution to the society, that is, societal motivation. In this study, we focus on societal motivation and analyze its link with for-profit ventures’ outcomes, such as likelihood of novelty, external financing, size, and sales. Using samples of Japanese entrepreneurs, we find support for our hypotheses that new ventures established by for-profit entrepreneurs with societal motivation are more novel and that these ventures achieve larger size and sales compared to the ventures of other for-profit entrepreneurs who lack such motivation. However, our findings also indicate that the ventures of for-profit entrepreneurs with societal motivation receive less external financing compared to those with merely economic motivation.

Too many to handle? Two types of multimarket contacts and entry decisions

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how firms with multimarket contacts in both product and geographic markets make foreign direct investments (FDI) location choices and to advance the understanding about how managers with cognitive limits cope with opportunities to take the advantage of mutual forbearance in two types of markets. Design/methodology/approach – Drawing upon the literatures on multimarket contact and decision making, the authors develop original hypotheses on how multimarket contacts in two types of markets influence firms’ choice of destination for foreign investments. The authors test the hypotheses using longitudinal archival data on foreign market entries of Japanese auto parts makers. Findings – The authors find that when choosing FDI locations, firms reduce the cognitive burdens of coping with multimarket contacts in the two types of markets by focussing exclusively on what is perceived as relevant to the decision at hand. The authors also find that this propensity is pa...

The Influence of Host Country Experience on Backward Venturing

This study argues that with the increased operational uniqueness and complexity of international joint ventures (IJVs) associated with backward venturing, the host country experience of foreign firms may be less beneficial or even harmful to IJV performance. In support of this argument, our analysis using data on IJVs in Japan shows that when IJVs are associated with backward venturing, the effect of host country experience heterogeneity and host country experience within the IJV industry on reducing IJV failure rates decreases, while greater host country experience outside the IJV industry increases the IJV failure rates.

Cybercrime and Cybersecurity in the Global South

This book is the latest and most comprehensive book on the subject of cybercrime in the Global South. The costly, complex, multifaceted, and dynamic nature of cybercrime associated with the Global South is a critical problem that warrants attention from all levels of government and scholars from various disciplines ranging from political science and developmental economics to law, criminology and sociology. Yet, although the .popular press has paid considerable attention to cybercrime in the Global South, very little research has been undertaken to further our understanding of this phenomenon. Our understanding of underlying drivers and the effects on the global society and economy of such crimes is thus limited. The book contributes to filling this void.

Centrality advantage and the creation of distant ties by peripheral firms in vertical networks

The article presents research on business networks. The creation of vertical networks is hypothesized to offer larger corporations a significant advantage.. The relationships between automobile man...