“Courting the multinational”: Subnational institutional capacity and foreign market insidership

Monaghan, Sinéad; Gunnigle, Patrick; Lavelle, Jonathan

doi:10.1057/jibs.2013.47

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“…In order to leverage strategic asset seeking motives policy makers should not only reinforce national and regional technological capabilities but also support the development of 'institutional bridges' able to facilitate EMNEs in their understanding of 'soft' innovation drivers. In a recent paper on the case of Ireland, Monaghan et al (2014) have shown that subnational institutions can play a key role in enabling and accelerating the 'insidership' of FDI, in particular communicating tangible and intangible local resources and facilitating the access to codified and tacit knowledge. Helping EMNEs to capture the advantages of the rich national and regional innovation system landscape in the EU might be the key to attract their investments in the most 'valuable' activities.…”

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Regional strategic assets and the location strategies of emerging countries’ multinationals in Europe

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Pietrobelli

Rabellotti

2016

European Planning Studies

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This paper explores the location strategies of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) from emerging countries (EMNEs) in search for regional strategic assets. The analysis is based on a systematic comparison between EMNEs and multinationals from advanced countries (AMNEs) in order to unveil similarities and differences between these two major sources of foreign investments into the regions of the European Union. The empirical results suggest that EMNEs follow a distinct logic in their location strategies because they are attracted by the availability of technological competences only when their subsidiaries pursue more sophisticated and technology-intensive activities. Conversely EMNEs share some behavioural similarities with AMNEs in their response to the spatial agglomeration of investments. The paper is organized as follows. The next section reviews the literature dealing with the location of MNEs, introducing the determinants analysed in the empirical analysis with special reference to the expected behavioural differences between AMNEs and EMNEs.Section 3 introduces the empirical strategy and the dataset. The empirical results are presented in Section 4. Section 5 concludes with some policy considerations. A FRAMEWORK FOR COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS: MNEs AND THEIR LOCATION DRIVERSThere is a widespread consensus in the literature that the understanding of the location behavior of MNEs is still underdeveloped. Referring to the Ownership-LocationInternalization (OLI) paradigm developed by Dunning (1977), the literature has dealt widely with the questions related to the why a firm becomes a multinational (O) and how it carries out its international adventure (I) but so far the discussion about where it goes to internationalize its activities (L) has remained rather fuzzy (Iammarino and McCann, 2013;McCann and Mudambi, 2005).

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Regional strategic assets and the location strategies of emerging countries’ multinationals in Europe

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Pietrobelli

Rabellotti

2016

European Planning Studies

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“…Following Monaghan et al . (: 132), subnational institutions can be defined as ‘the body of local regulatory and service‐providing institutions with a functional remit to engage with foreign‐owned enterprise at a subnational level’. As Fuller et al .…”

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Embedding multinational firms in regional business systems: neoliberal and social‐democratic models in Spain

Menéndez

Balbona

Pruneda

et al. 2018

Industrial Relations Journal

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The paper analyses how regional actors have mobilised to attract and retain foreign direct investment in two Spanish regions with different political approaches to the management of economic issues, including industrial relations. These regions are Madrid, the main pole of attraction of foreign direct investment in Spain, and Asturias, with a large tradition of heavy industry and a greater dependence on a small number of large employers. It finds the regions have adapted to international competition in substantially different manners and considers the alternative reasons why this might be the case, highlighting the role of organised labour both in the inward investment regimes themselves, and in shaping the nature of the different compromises they involve.

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“…This leads to subnational variations in the social networks and institutions of a country and creates significant differences to consider (Batjargal et al, 2013;Lu & Ma, 2008;Ralston, Nguyen, & Napier, 1999). As a result, this is critical to the consideration of the entry mode decision process (Monaghan, Gunnigle, & Lavelle, 2014).…”

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Cross-national research and international business: An interdisciplinary path

Chabowski

Samiee

Hult

2017

International Business Review

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“Courting the multinational”: Subnational institutional capacity and foreign market insidership

Cited by 66 publications

References 66 publications

Regional strategic assets and the location strategies of emerging countries’ multinationals in Europe

Regional strategic assets and the location strategies of emerging countries’ multinationals in Europe

Embedding multinational firms in regional business systems: neoliberal and social‐democratic models in Spain

Cross-national research and international business: An interdisciplinary path

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