We examine how host-country institutional development influences innovation performance of internationalized emerging market enterprises (EMEs). Our panel-data analysis of Chinese EMEs shows that although host-country institutional development on average enhances innovation performance of the...

Although prior research conceptualizes how knowledge-seeking motivates the internationalization of emerging-market enterprises (EMEs), whether outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) indeed leads to enhanced innovation performance has received limited attention. We address this subject by...

We examine how the innovative performance of Chinese MNEs is affected by the way in which they configure their portfolio of subsidiaries. To this end, we acknowledge that innovation performance is not an one-dimensional construct, but can vary in terms of scale and quality. We rely on an...