Entry strategies into China for foreign travel companies

The epidemiology of notified cases of campylobacter gastroenteritis in adults in Nottingham Health District was investigated using a case-control study with a postal questionnaire to ascertain data on risk factors. Over a 14-month period 531 cases (a 73% response rate of all laboratory confirmed cases) and 512 controls replied.Conditional logistic regression analysis was used to determine independent associations with infection. These included foreign travel (odds ratio (OR) 3·4; 95% confidence intervals (CI) 2·0–5·7), diabetes mellitus (OR 4·1, CI 1·1–17), medication with omeprazole (OR 3·5, CI 1·1–12) and H2 and H2 antagonists (OR 3·7, CI 1·3–15), contact with puppies (OR11·3, CI1·2–105), eating chicken (OR 1·4, CI 1·1–1·8) and drinking milk from bottles with tops damaged by a bird (OR 3·3, CI 1·0–11). Preparing main meals (OR 0·9, CI 0·8–1·0) and drinking delivered milk (OR 0·6, CI 0·4–0·9) were associated with a reduced risk of campylobacter infection.Foreign travel was reported in 25% of cases and another 15% had significant associations with other risk factors. The majority of cases, 60%, remained unexplained, indicating the need for further evolution of sporadic cases.

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Foreign Travel Experience and Cultural Intelligence: Does Country Choice Matter?

Journal of Teaching in International Business ◽

10.1080/08975930.2016.1173615 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

pp. 23-40 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Robert L. Engle ◽

Briana Nash

Keyword(s):

Cultural Intelligence ◽

Foreign Travel ◽

Travel Experience

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Multidexterity: Combining Competing Business Models in Transforming Economies

Management and Organization Review ◽

10.1017/mor.2020.56 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-32

Author(s):

Robert Demir ◽

Duncan Angwin

Keyword(s):

Business Models ◽

Regulatory Constraints ◽

Entry Strategies ◽

Industry Standards ◽

European Healthcare ◽

Practice Approach ◽

Different Levels

ABSTRACT In an attempt to respond to recent calls for better understanding the coexistence of multiple business models, we develop the concept of ‘multidexterity’ – the ability to develop, nurture, and execute several distinctive BM strategies simultaneously across different levels and functions of the MNC and its host markets. To illustrate this approach, we describe a European healthcare firm entering the rapidly transforming economy of China and facing regulatory constraints and ambiguities in the application of industry standards. This situation is a generic challenge for MNCs entering rapidly transforming economies, which they help in turn to substantially alter and develop. We argue multidextrous business models are effective entry strategies for MNCs. They also help resolve two conceptual limitations in the BMI literature: (1) the problem of environmental contingencies and (2) the interrelatedness of factors at the macro, meso, and micro levels. We address these problems from a practice approach. We provide some implications for the concept of multidexterity and business models and address managerial challenges and prospects in developing multidextrous organizations.

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