The purpose of this article is to discuss the risks for Chinese companies that are interested in pursuing international business opportunities. Drawing from personal industry experience, experience teaching Chinese entrepreneurs/managers in China, and marketing management class lectures, I...

We investigate the rapid internationalization of many multinationals from emerging economies through acquisition in advanced economies. We conceptualize these acquisitions as an act and form of entrepreneurship, aimed to overcome the ‘liability of emergingness' incurred by these firms and to...

Knowledge is a source of competitive advantage which strengthens multinational corporations' (MNCs) market position, and thus, they set up overseas subsidiaries partly to access other firms' knowledge which resides in local markets. From the MNC viewpoint, due to the innate characteristics of...

In this paper, we focus on the internationalization strategies implemented by Middle Size Multinational Enterprises (MMNE) in Chinese markets. We assume that these strategies differs from those of the large multinational companies. Differences explained by the size of the company (medium)...

Legitimacy is fundamental to business internationalization and access to new markets. This variable is particularly important for emerging market multinationals (EMNEs) as they face numerous obstacles, including the information that consumers in the host country have about these companies in...