Jia, Fu; Lamming, Richard; Sartor, Marco; Orzes, Guido; … - In: International Business Review 23 (2014) 3, pp. 580-593
, employing multiple case studies: 14 MNCs’ IPOs in China, studied by British, Italian, and Chinese scholars. Applying role theory … IPOs could lead an MNC's global sourcing in a geographical region. We challenge the unilinear and sequential nature of … potentially withdrawn. Finally, we conclude that the stage of an IPO is determined by the strategic importance of China to its …