Home country (in)stability and the locational portfolio construction of emerging market multinational enterprises

Luiz, John; Barnard, Helena

doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.06.042

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“…Second, the Heritage Foundation's institutional development index (drawn from the Index of Economic Freedom) indicates that in 2008, China/India and Turkey shared a similar level of institutional development, which was lower than that of the United States. While Turkish firms face distinct challenges in China and India, they are able to leverage their home country experience and familiarity with similar challenges (Luiz and Barnard, 2022). Although we recognize the differences between emerging economies, our arguments center on the “typical” and shared characteristics of emerging economies as established in the literature (Kalasin et al, 2014; Von Zedtwitz et al, 2015).…”

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Find your match! How emerging economy firms combine different forms of openness to innovate

2023

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This study investigates how combining different forms of formal collaboration (i.e., developed vs. emerging economy collaborations) and informal search (i.e., search breadth vs. depth) affects the innovation performance of emerging economy firms. The open innovation literature has primarily focused on the effect of individual open innovation practices, generating conflicting results. We argue that outcomes depend on specific combinations of open innovation practices. Drawing on the notion of external absorptive capacity routines, we argue that combining forms of openness that rely on the same absorptive capacity routine positively affects innovation performance. We specifically ask whether broad or deep search, which rely on different routines, is more appropriate for emerging economy firms who are collaborating with developed or other emerging economy partners. We test our hypotheses using responses from 659 manufacturing and service firms to two waves of the Turkish Innovation Survey. Using Tobit regression analysis, we generate findings consistent with our expectations. We find that deep search is appropriate when collaborating with developed economy partners, whereas broad search is appropriate when collaborating with other emerging economy partners. These confirm the importance of combining forms of openness with matching routines. Overall, we illustrate the importance of finding the right combination of different forms of openness.

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“…Participants indicated that they were already very aggressively internationalising into the rest of Africa because of the attractive opportunities, despite often facing higher levels of country and institutional risk in these host locations (Luiz & Barnard, 2022). Participant 7 indicated that 'we appointed an executive for Africa because that's one of the two things that can get good volume, big volume to the table', while Participant 6 excitedly exclaimed, 'Africa.…”

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Strategies for the declining printing industry: Diversification, consolidation, and internationalisation

Khan

Luiz²

2023

South African Journal of Business Management

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Purpose: The study explores how forces of disruption and innovation affect the printing industry in an emerging market context and how incumbent firms respond to the challenges associated with these forces.Design; methodology approach: The research is an exploratory study based on qualitative analysis of senior managers within the South African large-scale printing industry that seeks to gain their perspectives on viable options to curb declining growth.Findings/results: The study results are organised around the industry’s challenges, the organizational capabilities required to address these challenges and the opportunities presented by the market disruption. Respondents argue that opportunities exist within the sector but that this requires fresh thinking and a more entrepreneurial approach. Strategies highlighted include consolidation, diversification and internationalisation.Originality value: The study applies theories associated with disruptive innovation and creative destruction to an industry facing long-term structural decline. Respondents maintain that there are options for growth even in the face of such disruption and address the role of management and entrepreneurial activities in this regard.Practical implications: The study results suggest that for smaller, more agile printers there are opportunities to take advantage of disruptive innovation, especially where they have less legacy baggage and fewer sunk costs to recuperate. For the larger printing firms there may be tangential opportunities to go ‘downmarket’ into less developed countries that are often at earlier stages of market disruption. Further innovation is required to stave off the decline prevalent in the traditional printing industry and embrace a growth mentality.Contribution: The article demonstrates the application of disruptive innovation in an emerging market context and the role of strategic management in addressing such disruption through consolidation, diversification, efficiency drives, and internationalisation.

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“…The intersection of these two axes creates four views with corresponding ways of thinking about, and approaches to enhance geopolitical resilience. For example, the organization in focus can comprise an emerging market MNE, its subsidiaries, home, and host markets as in Luiz and Barnard (2022), discussed below.…”

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“…It presents a 'big picture' view in which the traditional focus of the IB literature is just one element of a wider perspective." For example, Luiz and Barnard (2022) describe how emerging market multinationals during transitional periods in South Africa enhanced their resilience by constructing and changing their corresponding locational portfolios.…”

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From Fragmented Geopolitics to Geopolitical Resilience in International Business

Bozonelos

Tsagdis

2023

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We provide a holistic framework for enhancing geopolitical resilience in IB, comprising four complimentary views (inside-in, inside-out, outside-in, and outside-out) along with actionable insights to key stakeholders (e.g., practitioners) grappling with geopolitics in IB. We recommend to: (i) treat geopolitics as an endogenous and continuous process, (ii) anticipate the effects of larger politico-economic dynamics, (iii) enhance resilience from an outside-out perspective, (iv) pursue multilevel analysis to that effect. Finally, we introduce a novel and more fundamental conceptualization of resilience to those encountered in the literature (e.g., of ‘bouncing back’, ‘above’, or ‘beyond’). Namely, ‘bouncing with’ the waves of contemporary geopolitics.

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Home country (in)stability and the locational portfolio construction of emerging market multinational enterprises

Cited by 19 publications

References 98 publications

Find your match! How emerging economy firms combine different forms of openness to innovate

Find your match! How emerging economy firms combine different forms of openness to innovate

Strategies for the declining printing industry: Diversification, consolidation, and internationalisation

From Fragmented Geopolitics to Geopolitical Resilience in International Business

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