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The factors that determine firms' levels of internationalization remain a focal area of international business research. Within this research stream, studies building on the upper echelons theory have investigated the influence of the demographic characteristics of the top management team (TMT)...
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We study how the country of origin of a firm influences its internationalization, analyzing emerging economy multinational companies (EMNCs) as a laboratory for extending theory. EMNCs have been observed to vary from advanced economy MNCs (AMNCs), suggesting that the home context is the critical...
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capability building. The case firms' lower position within the GVCs weakens the networks' influence on their GVC upgrading. The … research identifies key enablers of GVC engagement and obstacles of GVC upgrading of the case firms which play an important …
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implications for MNEs' social strategies for sustainability. …
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strategy, but it also discusses its efforts to optimize its portfolio. Finally, the case study ends with the sustainability …
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International new ventures (INVs) and born globals, companies that internationalise from inception, have existed for centuries, but they gained popularity only about 20 years ago. Since then the international entrepreneurship field has been well developed from the entrepreneurship and...
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Recent literature on strategic decision-making highlights the role of hidden costs, i.e. costs that firms are not able to predict ex-ante (Larsen et al., 2012). This paper analyses the hidden costs of going global, i.e. unanticipated costs that emerge in the implementation of market entry...
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Chinese latecomer firms adopt internationalization strategies in order to gain the necessary resources and competences to compete in the local and global markets. In this process, different sectors are involved: not only in the electronic one (e.g. Haier and Huawei represent two successful...
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Research proposes that institutions matter in shaping firm strategic behavior as well as the performance implications of such behavior but is less forthcoming with respect to how they matter especially during the process of internationalization of emerging-economy firms. We build on the...
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Drawing on international business and CSR literature, we examine how CSR activities influence the level of internationalization of emerging market firms. This study covers listed industrial Chinese firms from 2009 to 2014. Data sources include archival data from the GTA-China Stock Market and...
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