How Corporate Governance helps firms to overcome challenges in the internationalization process

• Autor(a) principal: Ribeiro, Joana Maria Almeida
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/25380
• topic: Internationalization; Challenges; Corporate Governance; Internacionalização; Desafios; Modelo de governo; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão

The goal of this thesis is to fill the gap in the literature concerning the corporate governance as a facilitator of the internationalization process, helping firms to overcome specific challenges during this process. To answer our research question, we conducted a qualitative study, the case study method, based on a Portuguese international company. The data was collected mainly by primary data, interviews, and as secondary data, internal and external documents provided by the company. The findings show that corporate governance helps surpassing the following challenges: cultural differences, spatial distance, communication problems, language differences, maintaining the same reputation and image, the management of the human resources and the different subsidiaries. The mechanisms that help to overcome these challenges are: the role of the board and its small size, the non-presence of external members, the engagement of the board, the separations of ownership and control and the good communication channels in the model of governance.