Mimicry, Knowledge Spillover and Expatriate Assignment Strategy in Overseas Subsidiaries

Ge, Lipeng; Qian, Cuili; Li, Jiatao

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“…Furthermore, in environments with high informal institutional effectiveness, imperfect information is amplified for foreign MNEs, leading them to act to a greater degree based on a logic of appropriateness vis-a `-vis local players (Ge, Qian, & Li, 2019). That is, in the absence of a clear understanding of the local market and how best to operate there to maximize efficiency and profitability, MNEs will seek to emulate local players through isomorphism as a means of increasing their legitimacy.…”

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Informal institutions and the international strategy of MNEs: Effects of institutional effectiveness, convergence, and distance

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Lyles

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J Int Bus Stud

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Informal institutions influence all aspects of international business (IB), but they have received limited attention in the literature relative to formal institutions. This article extends prior IB work by examining the relationships between several key formal and informal institutional factors and the international strategy of MNEs. First, it examines the direct effects of formal and informal institutional effectiveness, convergence, and distance on MNE local adaptation, developing arguments and propositions for each relationship. Second, it focuses on the interactions of formal and informal institutional effectiveness and convergence to develop an eight-fold typology of market institutional configurations. This typology depicts the role that informal institutions take in a market depending on the interaction of these three institutional factors. Third, it builds on these interactions and the concept of institutional distance to develop a conceptual framework of market and MNE institutional diversity and dynamism. This framework captures the formal and informal institutional relationships within a home market, host market, parent firm, and foreign subsidiary, as well as the formal and informal institutional relationships across each of these entities over time. In so doing, this article helps advance research on informal institutions and IB, which can lead to considerable future work on the topic.

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Informal institutions and the international strategy of MNEs: Effects of institutional effectiveness, convergence, and distance

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“…Fourth, we propose that the Chinese diaspora is more integrated in business activities in Russia as knowledge spillovers and knowledge sharing processes are highly dependent on collaboration power and the economic relationship between countries (Garha and Paparusso, 2018; Ge et al , 2019; Stoyanov et al , 2018). China and Chinese companies have developed advanced capacities (Global Competitiveness Report, 2019; Global Innovation Index, 2020).…”

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“…A diaspora may not be politically involved in a host country but can be economically relevant, thus a diaspora can participate in a destination market. However, social communities including migrants and diasporas have important implications for host country and firm-level outcomes, such as improved innovative capacities (Lee, 2015; Nathan and Lee, 2013) and total factor productivity, increased foreign direct investments (FDIs) and trade flows (Aleksynska and Tritah, 2015; Chand and Tung, 2014; Javorcik et al , 2011; Rabbiosi et al , 2019), created technological knowledge flows and greater knowledge transfers (Ge et al , 2019; Hornung, 2014; Llonch, 2017) and diasporans’ entrepreneurship (Ekanem, 2019; Poirine et al , 2017; Riddle and Brinkerhoff, 2011). Thus, diasporans’ foreignness can be an asset as opposed to a liability.…”

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Talent management practices for firms’ absorptive capacity in a host country: a study of the Chinese diaspora in Russia

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Zhang

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Purpose The paper aims to explore the role of talent management (TM) practices in shaping firm’s absorptive capacity (AC) in the host country. Based on the data from representatives of Chinese diaspora used in Russia, this study discusses the role of TM practices in developing firm’s AC through learning from diaspora. Design/methodology/approach To explore possible connections between both TM practices and AC and TM practices and attractiveness of a company for diaspora representatives (talent mobility), this study reports an exploratory study by using a set-theoretical analytic method, fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis. Findings The findings state that retention and development practices significantly influence firm’s AC, which promotes attractiveness of Russia as of destination country for Chinese employees and of particular company with the corresponding TM system. Originality/value This study reveals the existing connection between diaspora talent attraction and knowledge assimilation and diaspora talent retention and knowledge transformation. Knowledge acquisition is influenced by talent retention and talent development with a mediation of knowledge sharing.

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“…The IA organizational value in these circumstances may be affected by several relational factors, e.g. the role each organization plays within the overall group (Colakoglu et al, 2009) or the volume of IAs in the host country sent by other organizations and any interaction effect on performance (Ge et al, 2019). New research in all these aspects could bring clarity.…”

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The organizational value of international assignments – the relational underpinning

Renshaw

Parry

Dickmann

2020

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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The organizational value of international assignments (IAs), is unclear and rarely measured by organizations. We argue that taking a relational perspective may enable a greater understanding of the value of IAs to organizations. A relational perspective involves focusing upon the relationship between the home and host organizations participating in an IA. Our literature review combines separate strands of research from the fields of Human Resource Management, International Business and Global Mobility to investigate whether such a relational underpinning exists. Based on this we develop a relational framework enabling the clarification of extant knowledge and illuminating the contradictions, uncertainties and areas for further research. As a result, we offer exploratory propositions and a future research agenda to improve our knowledge and understanding of this fundamental topic. Through reframing extant knowledge of IA organizational value we enable HR departments to refine their global mobility strategies and guide their choices amongst assignment options.

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Mimicry, Knowledge Spillover and Expatriate Assignment Strategy in Overseas Subsidiaries

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Cited by 7 publications

References 96 publications

Informal institutions and the international strategy of MNEs: Effects of institutional effectiveness, convergence, and distance

Informal institutions and the international strategy of MNEs: Effects of institutional effectiveness, convergence, and distance

Talent management practices for firms’ absorptive capacity in a host country: a study of the Chinese diaspora in Russia

The organizational value of international assignments – the relational underpinning

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