Douglas Dow is an experienced academic and researcher, and former consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, who specialises in the areas of strategy and international business. In his role as Associate Professor - Strategy at MBS, Douglas is also affiliated with the School's Centre for the Practice of International Trade. Douglas' research interests include the measurement and impact of psychic distance on international activities, market selection and entry modes for foreign direct investment (FDI) and the link between export performance and the degree to which firms adapt their business strategies when entering foreign markets.
Articles Accepted in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Markets and Networks in International Trade: On the Role of Distances in Globalization (with Lars Häkanson), Management International Review (2012)
• The enduring importance of geographic distance as an impediment to international trade has recently...
Disentangling the Roles of International Experience and Distance in Establishment Mode Choice (with Jorma Larimo), Management International Review (2011)
The empirical results concerning the role of international experience in establishment mode choice decisions have,...
More Than Just National Cultural Distance: Testing New Distance Scales on FDI in Slovakia (with Sonia Ferencikova), International Business Review (2010)
Over the past decade, numerous calls have been made within the international business literature for...
Post Entry Advancement of International Service Firms in Australia: A Longitudinal Approach (with Abhishek Shukla), Scandinavian Journal of Management (2010)
Challenging the Conceptualization and Measurement of Distance and International Experience in Entry Mode Choice Research (with Jorma Larimo), Journal of International Marketing (2009)
Although international entry mode choice has been extensively studied, the empirical results regarding two key...
Working Papers