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Where to seek strategic assets for competitive catch-up? a configurational study of emerging multinational enterprises expanding into foreign strategic-factor markets
journal contribution
posted on 2016-10-12, 10:46 authored by Lin Cui, Di Fan, Xiaohui Liu, Yi LiEmerging multinational enterprises (EMNEs) often engage in strategic-asset-seeking foreign direct investment (FDI) for competitive catch-up. This study explores the linkages between an EMNE’s competitive scenario consisting of a configuration of its awareness-motivation-capability (AMC) conditions and the comparative institutional advantages of its strategic-asset-seeking destination. Our configurational analyses of Chinese FDIs in the technology-intensive industries of OECD countries reveal a taxonomy of four distinct asset-seeking strategies of EMNEs. Our findings shed novel insights into the strategic variations within EMNEs based on a theoretically and methodologically extended AMC framework. This study also extends the varieties of capitalism literature by addressing the implications of comparative institutional advantages for foreign entrants, rather than domestic incumbent firms.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Published in
Organization StudiesVolume
38Issue
8Pages
1059 - 1083Citation
CUI, L. ... et al, 2017. Where to seek strategic assets for competitive catch-up? a configurational study of emerging multinational enterprises expanding into foreign strategic-factor markets. Organization Studies, 38(8), pp.1059-1083.Publisher
SAGEVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2016-09-01Publication date
2016-10-12Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Organization Studies and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840616670441ISSN
0170-8406eISSN
1741-3044Publisher version
Language
- en