Managerial Perceptions of Psychic Distance: National and Individual-Level Antecedents |
| Presenter: |
Douglas Dow, Associate Professor, University of Melbourne |
| When: |
Friday 27 November 2009 |
| Where: |
Room 343 Level 3 Colin Clark Building 39, St Lucia campus |
| Time: |
9.00am - 11.00am |
| Cluster: |
StrategyCluster |
| Biography: |
Douglas Dow is an Associate Professor in Business Strategy at the Melbourne Business School (MBS), University of Melbourne, Victoria and is affiliated with the Centre for the Practice of International Trade at the MBS. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1998 from the University of Melbourne, an M.B.A. from the Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada and an B.A.Sci. (Mechanical Engineering) from Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Prior to entering academia, he worked for five years in the aircraft industry with Pratt & Whitney Canada in Montreal, and a further five years as a management consultant with the PCEK/BCG in Melbourne.
Professor Dow's research interests primarily concern international management topics such as psychic distance, market selection, the internationalization process, born globals, entry modes, establishment modes and international performance; although he has, in the past, also published several articles in the operations management field. His work has been published in the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of International Marketing, the Journal of Management, the Journal of Operations Management and the Production and Operations Management journal. Professor Dow also serves on the editorial review board of Journal of International Business Studies, and acts as an ad hoc reviewer for several other international business and international marketing journal. |
| Workshop Paper: |
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| Abstract: |
This paper bridges the gap between two distinct streams of psychic distance literature by exploring the relationship between a broad range of 'national-level' psychic distance stimuli, 'individual-level' respondent characteristics, and managerial perceptions of psychic distance. The results confirm a strong direct linkage between seven psychic distance stimuli dimensions and perceived psychic distance. Three individual respondent level characteristics are also found to have significant direct effects on the perceptions of psychic distance; and four individual-level factors are found to have
significant moderating effects. In particular, respondent education levels and international experience produce some surprising moderating results. (copy of the paper to come in a few days) |
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