“…In addition, the liabilities of origin create post-entry disadvantages for foreign subsidiaries of Chinese MNEs due to the negative institutional heritage and the undesirable image as perceived by various host country stakeholders (Luo & Tung, 2007;Meyer, Ding, Li, & Zhang, 2014;Wang, Luo, Lu, Sun, & Maksimov, 2014). In this study, we argue that local responsiveness strategy is particularly important for foreign subsidiaries of Chinese MNEs, assisting them in overcoming the liabilities of origin in global competition (Rugman et al, 2016;Wei & Nguyen, 2017).…”