Towards a Theory of Multinational Enterprises and the Civil Society

Rugman, Alan M.; Verbeke, Alain Laurent

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“…The Rugman stream also acknowledges that the extent of variation in export intensity explained by domestic location factors may be contingent on certain organizational characteristics (Narula et al 2019;Rugman 1981Rugman , 1996. Compared with large MNEs, small and medium-sized B2B enterprises (SMEs) face the liability of newness and smallness.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The mainstream theory of the MNE, particularly the so-called Rugman stream (Narula et al 2019) acknowledges that a firm's international success does not happen in a spatially homogeneous environment; rather, location plays a significant role (Rugman 1981(Rugman , 1996Rugman and Verbeke 1992). The stream stresses so-called location-specific advantages (LSAs), which represent the set of strengths-stocks of accessible resources-characterizing a specific location and usable by firms operating in that location (Rugman and Verbeke 2009).…”

Section: Theory and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The stream stresses so-called location-specific advantages (LSAs), which represent the set of strengths-stocks of accessible resources-characterizing a specific location and usable by firms operating in that location (Rugman and Verbeke 2009). The Rugman stream has mainly focused on LSAs at the country level, referring to them as country-specific advantages (Rugman 1981(Rugman , 1996. Recent work, especially the subnational heterogeneity approach, has also considered other levels of analysis (Hutzschenreuter, Matt, and Kleindienst 2020;Mudambi et al 2018).…”

Section: Theory and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Rugman stream has mainly focused on LSAs at the country level, referring to them as country-specific advantages (Rugman 1981(Rugman , 1996. Recent work, especially the subnational heterogeneity approach, has also considered other levels of analysis (Hutzschenreuter, Matt, and Kleindienst 2020;Mudambi et al 2018).…”

Section: Theory and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How Much Does Domestic Location Matter for B2B Firms’ Export Intensity? A Variance Decomposition Study

Iurkov¹,

Koval²,

Zaefarian³

2023

Journal of International Marketing

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Business-to-business (B2B) firms leverage the advantages of their domestic location to export goods and services. However, little empirical research has examined the extent to which domestic location effects explain variation in B2B firms’ export intensity, despite their potentially critical role. In this study, the authors explore this question with a variance decomposition analysis—an approach that allows them to quantitatively examine the relative contribution of domestic location and other effects on B2B firms’ export intensity. Their analysis uses a large longitudinal sample of 7,465 European B2B firms over 15 years (2004–2018). Splitting domestic location effects into the home country and subnational region (a geographic space within a country) effects, they find that each explains a substantial portion of the variation in export intensity. Notably, the results show that the examined effects are more critical for small and medium-sized enterprises than for larger B2B firms. Domestic location factors also matter more for B2B manufacturing than service firms. The findings enhance scholarly and managerial understanding of the application and predictive power of domestic location effects in explaining firm internationalization through exports.

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Section: Takedownmentioning

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Section: Theory and Hypothesesmentioning

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Section: Theory and Hypothesesmentioning

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How Much Does Domestic Location Matter for B2B Firms’ Export Intensity? A Variance Decomposition Study

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Koval²,

Zaefarian³

2023

Journal of International Marketing

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“…First, an emphasis on the economic inferiority of regional vis-à-vis multilateral integration outcomes, Bhagwati (2002). Second, the view that regionalism is an efficient substitute for ill-functioning multilateral institutions in terms of economic outcomes, Rugman and Verbeke (2003a). Third, a focus on the comparative ease of conducting a regional integration process (with only a limited number of participants that are geographically close) vis-à-vis a multilateral integration process that could involve all the 144 countries in the WTO.…”

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A Perspective on Regional and Global Strategies of Multinational Enterprises

Rugman¹,

Verbeke²

2005

Analysis of Multinational Strategic Management

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It is widely accepted that multinational enterprises (MNEs) are the key drivers of globalization.The ultimate test to assess the level of globalization is the actual penetration of markets across the globe, especially in the broad 'triad' markets of NAFTA, the European Union and Asia. Yet, data on the activities of the 500 largest MNEs reveal that very few actually operate globally. For 320 of the 380 for which geographic sales data are available, an average of 80.3% of their total sales are in their home region of the triad. This means that the world's largest firms are not global, but regionally based in terms of breadth and depth of market coverage. Globalization thus reflects a special, and rather unusual, outcome of doing international business, and regional strategies are more relevant than global ones. This has important implications for various strands of mainstream international business research, as well as for the broader managerial debate on the design of optimal strategies and governance structures for MNEs.

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Towards a Theory of Multinational Enterprises and the Civil Society

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How Much Does Domestic Location Matter for B2B Firms’ Export Intensity? A Variance Decomposition Study

How Much Does Domestic Location Matter for B2B Firms’ Export Intensity? A Variance Decomposition Study

A Perspective on Regional and Global Strategies of Multinational Enterprises

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