Bernadine J. Dykes, Ph.D., CPA, a new faculty member in the Byrd School of Business, presented two papers in August 2016 at the Annual Academy of Management (AOM) Conference in Anaheim, California. AOM, the leading professional organization of doctoral students and faculty members in management, was founded in 1936 and has nearly 20,000 members spanning more than 120 countries.
Dr. Dykes presented “First mover advantages in foreign market entry: A review and critique.” In the review paper, she and her co-author (Kalin Kolev of Marquette University) examine the relationship between entry timing and firm performance as it has been studied in international business research. The empirical evidence implies that first mover or early market entry advantages exist in settings when firms enter a foreign country. Dykes and Kolev argue that this finding is more nuanced and complex than currently suggested in existing research. Their argument is based on the fact that the mechanisms used to support the existence of first mover advantages and disadvantages in international business research remain underdeveloped due to deficiencies in existing research.
She also presented “Liability of foreignness in public private partnerships: The case of project finance investments.” In this paper,Dykes and her co-authors (Charles Stevens of Lehigh University and Nandini Lahiri of American University) test whether foreign firms that partner with the host government can overcome the liability of being foreign based on a sample of project finance investments across forty-eight countries and ten industries. The findings suggest that liability of foreignness may persist even when the foreign firm has the host government as a partner. Further, the size of the project and whether the project is transferred to a third party moderate this effect. This paper was also presented at the Annual Strategic Management Society (SMS) Conference in Berlin, Germany, in early September 2016. SMS is the leading professional organization of doctoral students and faculty members in strategic management. SMS has 3,000 members across 80 countries.