An institutional approach to cross-national distance

Berry, Heather; Guillén, Mauro F.; Zhou, Nan

doi:10.1057/jibs.2010.28

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“…Previous studies found that various kinds of cross-national distance affect firms' overseas investments (e.g., Berry, Guillen & Zhou, 2010;Holburn & Zelner, 2010;Martin et al, 2010). We include cross-national distance measures developed by Berry et al (2010) to capture their possible effects on location choices.…”

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International experience and FDI location choices of Chinese firms: The moderating effects of home country government support and host country institutions

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. sub-sample analyses we identify differences between entering developed and developing host countries in terms of the impact of home country government support and quality of host country institutions. Our findings help explain the puzzle concerning why EE firms have rapidly internationalized in a short period of time and do not follow the pattern predicted by classical IB theories. In comparison with studies from developed country contexts, our findings also highlight that the effect of home country support may be context specific. Permanent repository link

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International experience and FDI location choices of Chinese firms: The moderating effects of home country government support and host country institutions

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“…It reflects the international experience (Chandra, 2017), as well as the challenges and opportunities associated with the extended span of control (Vermeulen & Barkema, 2002). Geographic distance is measured by the weighted geographical distance, in 1000 km, between an INV's home country (i.e., China) and its destination markets (Berry, Guillén, & Zhou, 2010). The share of export to each destination market in total export is the weighing factor.…”

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Rapid expansion of international new ventures across institutional distance

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Rapid export expansion into institutionally distant locations has become more possible in the era of digital economy. Will such rapid expansion bring desirable outcome to firms? In a context of international new ventures (INVs) from emerging markets, we reconceptualize export expansion speed as the pace of exporting across institutional distance over a certain period of time. We then examine the relationship between rapid export expansion across institutional distance and overall firm performance. We incorporate directionality into export expansion and hypothesize the relationship to be positive when INVs export upwardly to more open countries, yet the relationship to be negative when INVs export downwardly to less open countries. We also hypothesize that the degree of market liberalization in subnational regions of origin of the INVs moderates the above speed-performance relationships. Instrumental variable models based on data of Chinese indigenous INVs during 2000-2009 support these hypotheses. This study both zooms in and zooms out the analytical lens along the location-related institutional axis, examines the joint effect of institutions involved in supranational directions and subnational origins on firm performance, and advances institutional theory.

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“…To operationalize geographic diversity of a firm's international expansion, we obtained the geographic distance of host countries from Berry, Guillen & Zhou (2010) and computed the Herfindahl index of overseas subsidiaries across markets and used it to proxy geographic diversity. We operationalized JV by generating a variable, which takes the value of one if the entry mode of an overseas subsidiary is joint venture, and takes the value of zero, if its entry mode is wholly owned subsidiary.…”

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Internationalization and innovation performance of emerging market enterprises: The role of host-country institutional development

Wang

Jiang

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Journal of World Business

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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 parent, such effects are more pronounced for EMEs with strong absorptive capacity and for those diversifying into a larger number of countries. Interestingly, EMEs with a higher level of state ownership gain more when entering countries with a lower level of institutional development. Our findings offer insights regarding how latecomer EMEs should configure their portfolio of subsidiaries in order to enhance innovation performance of their parent.

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An institutional approach to cross-national distance

Cited by 1,034 publications

References 68 publications

International experience and FDI location choices of Chinese firms: The moderating effects of home country government support and host country institutions

International experience and FDI location choices of Chinese firms: The moderating effects of home country government support and host country institutions

Rapid expansion of international new ventures across institutional distance

Internationalization and innovation performance of emerging market enterprises: The role of host-country institutional development

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