Subnational response differences on the Belt and Road Initiative policy and firm internationalization: A longitudinal and multi-level approach

Chang, Artemis; Oliveira, Rui Torres de; Chung, Hsi‐Mei; Zheng, Nan

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“…Chang, Torres de Oliveira, Chung, and Zheng ( 2021 ) address this call for more research at the subnational level by focusing on the heterogeneity in BRI policies across Chinese regions and by evaluating how this differentially influences firms’ internationalization. They use web crawling techniques to develop new measures of provincial governments’ formal and informal actions related to the BRI which show wide disparities across China.…”

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“…Zooming into regional variations across China can be helpful to address some of these questions. Several papers in this special issue have highlighted that the nomination by China’s central government as a Key Province or Municipality in the BRI did not promote the internationalization of the firms in these regions (Chang et al, 2021 ; Liu & Wang, 2022 ). So how is the BRI structured and governed to address domestic Chinese challenges?…”

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“…So how is the BRI structured and governed to address domestic Chinese challenges? Both formal and informal BRI actions by provincial governments boost firm internationalization (Chang et al, 2021 ), suggesting that the BRI governance is more decentralized than often thought.…”

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The Belt and Road Initiative and international business policy: A kaleidoscopic perspective

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In this editorial, we take stock of the nature and scope of China’s global development strategy named the “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI), and how it influences international business (IB) policy. We build on the state of the current IB literature on the BRI and the findings of the Special Issue articles to suggest the need for complex integrative thinking on the initiative. We show that the BRI – like a kaleidoscope – elicits vastly different patterns of opportunities and challenges as we turn the perspective from policymakers in China, to governments in BRI host countries, and to officials in third countries. We illustrate how the application of integrative thinking to these perspectives allows for the identification when BRI projects generate tensions between countries and how this influences their IB policies. We further discuss under which circumstances BRI projects may benefit all sides and which IB policies can help promote these types of projects. We conclude with a discussion of future research directions.

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Institutional Topography: A Review of Subnational Institutions

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et al. 2024

Journal of Management

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Research on subnational institutions is largely motivated by the observation that formal and informal institutions within countries are unevenly configured over geographical space. Although diverse, this relatively nascent body of work has yet to explicate firm activity across subnational locales that exhibit institutional dissimilarity and isomorphism with both proximate and distant centers of political-economic power. To characterize firm activity over such spatially continuous institutional landscapes within countries, we synthesize insights from the subnational institutions literature by introducing a topography framework with its characteristic dimensions comprised of (1) polycentricity, (2) elevation, and (3) slope. We discuss theoretical contributions from using this framework to review 92 articles in the period 1999 to 2024 from 24 journals before concluding with directions for future research. This work integrates knowledge on subnational institutions across management sub-fields, including, but not limited to, international business, strategic management, and entrepreneurship.

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Subnational response differences on the Belt and Road Initiative policy and firm internationalization: A longitudinal and multi-level approach

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The Belt and Road Initiative and international business policy: A kaleidoscopic perspective

The Belt and Road Initiative and international business policy: A kaleidoscopic perspective

Institutional Topography: A Review of Subnational Institutions

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