From Beijing to Bentonville: Do multinational retailers link markets?

Head, Keith; Jing, Ran; Swenson, Deborah L.

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2014.04.007

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“…Blonigen and Ma (2010) document that multinational firms exporting from China have higher export prices than do domestic Chinese exporters. 5 In related work, Sun (2009) shows how multinational FDI has influenced Chinese exports in the case of the cultural, educational and sporting manufacture industry, and Head, Jing and Swenson (2010) show how the growing presence of multinational retailers influenced Chinese city and provincial capabilities in the case of Chinese retail goods exports. 6 Blomstrom and Kokko (1998), Navaretti and Venables (2004), and Gorg and Greenaway (2004) provide comprehensive surveys of host country benefits and harms from multinational activity.…”

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Multinational Exposure and the Quality of New Chinese Exports

Swenson¹,

Chen²

2012

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We exploit information on the geographic, product and trader characteristics of China's 1997–2009 exports to examine how the evolving city‐industry presence of multinational firms influenced the quality, frequency and survival of new export transactions by private Chinese firms. Our results show that own‐industry multinational firm contact was associated with more frequent, higher‐valued, and longer‐lasting new trade transactions. These effects appear to arise from beneficial multinational spillovers, rather than selection effects due to increased multinational competition, as increases in own‐industry or other multinational presence were also associated with an increase in the number of trade transactions introduced by private Chinese firms.

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“…5 5 In related work, Sun (2009) shows how multinational FDI has influenced Chinese exports in the case of the cultural, educational and sporting manufacture industry, and Head, Jing and Swenson (2010) show how the growing presence of multinational retailers influenced Chinese city and provincial capabilities in the case of Chinese retail goods exports. …”

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Multinational Exposure and the Quality of New Chinese Exports

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2012

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“…The reason to analyze the 63 specialty retailers from the 250 included in the report is to determine whether there are differences in the search strategies and retrieval data between companies from different sectors. The report "Global Powers of Retailing", which is referenced in some previous scientific papers (Chambolle and Villas-Boas 2015;Head et al 2014), classified specialty retailers into several categories, according to the activity included in Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) (2015), i.e., apparel-foot (22 firms), drug/pharmacy (14 firms), electronics (15 firms), and home improvement (12 firms).…”

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Online Store Locator: An Essential Resource for Retailers in the 21st Century

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Most retailers use their websites and social media to increase their visibility, while potential customers get information about these retailers using the Internet on electronic devices. Many papers have previously studied online marketing strategies used by retailers, but little attention has been paid to determine how these companies provide information through the Internet about the location and characteristics of their stores. This paper aims to obtain evidence about the inclusion of interactive web maps on retailers’ websites to provide information about the location of their stores. With this purpose, the store locator interactive tools of specialty retailers’ websites included in the report “Global Powers of Retailing 2015” are studied in detail using different procedures, such as frequency analysis and word clouds. From the results obtained, it was concluded that most of these firms use interactive maps to provide information about their offline stores, but today some of them still use non-interactive (static) maps or text format to present this information. Moreover, some differences were observed among the search filters used in the store locator services, according to the retailer’s specialty. These results provided insight into the important role of online store locator tools on retailers’ websites.

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“…1 Trade economists are acutely attentive to trade barriers, while previously they focused almost exclusively on tariffs and non-tariff barriers specifically, or on the transportation costs associated with physically moving products to international market. Recently, significant attention has been afforded to firms choosing to access international markets by exporting indirectly (Ahn et al, 2011;Antras and Costinot, 2011;Blanchard et al, 2013;McCann, 2013;Head et al, 2014). This has, in turn, contributed to a rise in multinational activity and cross-border linkages.…”

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Credit Constraints, Export Mode and Firm Performance: An Investigation of China's Private Enterprises

Lin

2017

Pacific Economic Review

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Firms can export either directly or through a trade intermediary (indirect exporting). This paper examines how financial constraints determine whether firms export directly or indirectly, and how this choice affects firm performance. For this investigation, we use the most recent Chinese private firm-level data, collected in 2011 by the World Bank. We establish two main results. First, indirect exporters face higher financial constraints than direct exporters. Second, indirect exporters are less productive and profitable than direct exporters. In addition, we rationalize these patterns with a simple model that incorporates credit constraints and imperfect contractibility in companies' export decisions. Our results imply that although globalization allows more firms in developing countries to enter the global market through indirect exporting, limited access to capital restricts firms to exporting directly and precludes them from pursuing more profitable opportunities.

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From Beijing to Bentonville: Do multinational retailers link markets?

Cited by 17 publications

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Multinational Exposure and the Quality of New Chinese Exports

Multinational Exposure and the Quality of New Chinese Exports

Online Store Locator: An Essential Resource for Retailers in the 21st Century

Credit Constraints, Export Mode and Firm Performance: An Investigation of China's Private Enterprises

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