Quo vadis? The entry into new technologies in advanced foreign subsidiaries of the multinational enterprise

Blomkvist, Katarina; Kappen, Philip; Zander, Ivo

doi:10.1057/jibs.2010.22

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“…Greenfield subsidiaries are also affected by liability of foreignness (Zaheer, 1995), which has proven an enduring barrier to the development of closer and embedded ties with local firms (Zaheer & Mosakowski, 1997). Recent empirical evidence indeed suggest a relatively slowly developing capacity among advanced greenfield subsidiaries to contribute new technologies the MNC's technological portfolio (Blomkvist et al, 2010).…”

Section: Three Investment Strategies In Foreign Locationsmentioning

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“…We conceptually disentangle and predict the development of technological contributions from advanced subsidiaries of the MNC, and, in contrast to prior work which addresses only greenfield subsidiaries (Blomkvist et al, 2010) or the dynamics of competence-creating overlaps (Kappen, 2011), make a direct empirical comparison between greenfields and acquisitions with regard to their ability to contribute to the technological growth of the entire multinational group. In addition to contributing new theoretical and empirical knowledge about post-entry developments in the internationalization of the MNC, the empirical findings offer some overall guidance for managers concerned with the growth and long-term strategy of the international firm.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Win, Place, or Show? How Foreign Investment Strategies Contribute to the Technological Growth of the Multinational Corporation

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Kappen²,

Zander³

2014

Long Range Planning

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Section: Three Investment Strategies In Foreign Locationsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Win, Place, or Show? How Foreign Investment Strategies Contribute to the Technological Growth of the Multinational Corporation

Blomkvist¹,

Kappen²,

Zander³

2014

Long Range Planning

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“…We refrain from pointing out a minimum number of modal shifts as there seems to be no end point to them (Blomkvist, Kappen, & Zander, 2010). In fact, there is a great array of modal shifts such as change between modes, within mode-change and mode role change that can be sequentially ordered in unnumbered ways (Benito et al, 2009).…”

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Interdependence Across a Firm's International Trajectories

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ResumoNeste artigo analisamos a extensão com que a internacionalização da firma como um todo pode ser explicada pela interdependência entre as distintas trajetórias internacionais que compõem esse processo. Para tanto, elaboramos um estudo de caso qualitativo e de perspectiva longitudinal de uma firma de tecnologia de informação brasileira do tipo born-global, por meio da construção de suas quatro trajetórias internacionais. Os nossos resultados indicam que a internacionalização da firma é resultado das quatro trajetórias internacionais interdependentes que evoluíram em quatro países distintos. Além disso, ressaltamos o relacionamento da firma com clientes internacionais como a força motriz da interdependência dessas trajetórias internacionais. Com base nesses resultados, propomos que a internacionalização da firma como um todo não é necessariamente a soma de trajetórias internacionais independentes. Pelo contrário, existem interdependências entre as trajetórias internacionais da firma que moldam sua internacionalização.Palavras-chave: interdependência; trajetória internacional; internacionalização. AbstractWe examine the extent to which the internationalization of the firm as a whole can be explained by the interdependence across its distinct international trajectories. To do so, we built a qualitative, backward-looking longitudinal case of the internationalization of a Brazilian born-global IT firm by tracing its four international trajectories from the outset. Our results indicate that the internationalization of the firm is the result of four interdependent international trajectories that evolved in four distinct countries. It addition, we highlight the relationships of the firm with international customers as the driving force behind the interdependence across these international trajectories. Based on these findings, we propose that the internationalization process of the firm as a whole is not necessarily the outcome of the sum of independent international trajectories. Rather, there are interdependences across the firm's international trajectories that shape the overall internationalization of the firm.

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“…The variable takes the value 1 if the second subsidiary was located in a core location and takes the value 0 otherwise. We tested Hypothesis 2 with a repeated-hazards event history analysis (EHA) (Blomkvist, Kappen, & Zander, 2010;Box-Steffensmeier & Zorn, 2001;Ezell, Land, & Cohen, 2003;Kappen, 2011), with the event of interest being the time of establishment of a focal MNE's second, third and fourth subsidiaries in China.…”

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“…Our data are right-censored because by the end of the sample period many firms in the sample had not yet expanded beyond one or two subsidiaries in China, and it was unknown whether and when they would expand further. Whereas early EHA methodologies were developed to study duration data related to a single, non-repeatable event (such as death), EHA models have since evolved to accommodate multiple or repeated events (Blomkvist, Kappen, & Zander, 2010;Box-Steffensmeier & Zorn, 2001;Ezell et al, 2003;Kappen, 2011). Commonly used repeated-hazards models include the Andersen-Gill model (Andersen & Gill, 1982), the Prentice-Williams-Peterson model (Prentice, Williams, & Peterson, 1981), and the Wei-Lin-Weissfeld (WLW) model (Wei, Lin, & Weissfeld, 1989).…”

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Core or periphery? The effects of country-of-origin agglomerations on the within-country expansion of MNEs

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We show how the initial subnational entry location of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) in China influences their subsequent within-country location choices and expansion speed. We distinguish between MNEs that establish their first subsidiary in co-ethnic cores -dense agglomerations of other firms from the same country of origin -and MNEs that locate their first subsidiary in the periphery, i.e., outside of these co-ethnic cores. To identify co-ethnic cores in China, we employ a geo-visualization methodology, which draws the boundaries of cores organically and dynamically over time. We contrast our findings with the prevailing approach of using static administrative boundaries for identifying agglomerations. Our results provide evidence of path dependency, in that (a) entry through subnational locations with strong co-ethnic communities is followed by expansion into other locations where co-ethnic communities are present, and that (b) entry through co-ethnic communities accelerates the pace at which MNEs establish additional subsidiaries in China. We also find that co-ethnic community effects continue to influence within-country MNE activities over time, despite a host of economic, institutional, and investment developments.

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Quo vadis? The entry into new technologies in advanced foreign subsidiaries of the multinational enterprise

Cited by 68 publications

References 92 publications

Win, Place, or Show? How Foreign Investment Strategies Contribute to the Technological Growth of the Multinational Corporation

Win, Place, or Show? How Foreign Investment Strategies Contribute to the Technological Growth of the Multinational Corporation

Interdependence Across a Firm's International Trajectories

Core or periphery? The effects of country-of-origin agglomerations on the within-country expansion of MNEs

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