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
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 Internationalization of Service Firms in the Overseas host Market: Pace and Nature of Changes in Resource Commitment (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...
Developing a Multidimensional Instrument to Measure Psychic Distance Stimuli (with Amal Karunaratna), Journal of International Business Studies (2006)
This paper develops and tests a range of potential psychic distance stimuli including differences in...
Adaptation and Performance in Foreign Markets: Evidence of Systematic Under-adaptation, Journal of International Business Studies (2006)
Working Papers