The effect of home country characteristics on the internationalization of EMNEs: The moderating role of knowledge stock

Foroudi, Pantea; Gupta, Suraksha; Patel, Parth; Batsakis, Georgios; Väätänen, Juha; Czinkota, Michael R.

doi:10.1016/j.ibusrev.2021.101893

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“…The role of home country institutional constraints associated with exporting of EMFs is subject to further research (Foroudi et al, 2021).…”

Section: Home Country Institutional Environment and Exporting Of Emfsmentioning

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“…The role of home country institutional constraints associated with exporting of EMFs is subject to further research (Foroudi et al, 2021). The theoretical development suggests that exposure to challenging institutions at home prompts EMFs' relatively great capabilities in dealing with the various complexity and volatility in international competition (Luo & Child, 2015).…”

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Institutional constraints and exporting of emerging‐market firms: The moderating role of innovation capabilities and digital transformation

Cai

Huang

2022

Manage Decis Econ

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Drawing from institutional arbitrage perspective and the view of organizational capability, we develop arguments showing how emerging‐market firms' (EMFs) innovation capabilities and digital transformation facilitate or constrain the importance of domestic institutional quality in their export activities. We use the data of Chinese firms collected from World Bank's Enterprise Survey database to test the research hypotheses. The results indicate that home country institutional constraints relate positively to export intensity. Moreover, this relationship is weakened by innovative capabilities but strengthened by digital transformation. We discuss the implications for theory and practice.

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“…The role of home country institutional constraints associated with exporting of EMFs is subject to further research (Foroudi et al, 2021).…”

Section: Home Country Institutional Environment and Exporting Of Emfsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Theoretical Backgroundsmentioning

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Institutional constraints and exporting of emerging‐market firms: The moderating role of innovation capabilities and digital transformation

Cai

Huang

2022

Manage Decis Econ

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“…The Uppsala model (Johanson and Vahlne, 1977) postulated that a key reason behind the gradual nature of firm internationalisation was the difficulty and time involved in acquiring experiential knowledge of foreign markets. In contemporary times, despite information being available in an instant from palm-sized devices we carry around in our pockets, how fast and how well firms absorb knowledge (as distinct from mere “information” remains a defining feature of cross-border expansion (Foroudi et al , 2023; Richardson, 2014). This is particularly so for industries in which the local setting continues to play an especially prominent role (De Boni and Forleo, 2019; Fillis and Lee, 2011), which, as noted earlier, is something that applies very much to football, albeit in a slightly complex way.…”

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Taking on the world: the internationalisation of City Football Group

Richardson

2023

RIBS

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Purpose Football is at once both a global sport and one that is defined by fiercely guarded local boundaries. For a firm operating within this highly lucrative industry and with ambitions of establishing a strong international presence for itself, a balance must be struck between riding on the game’s global appeal on the one hand and the need to somehow embed itself within particular local spaces on the other. This study aims to analyse how one such firm, the holding company City Football Group (CFG), is going about achieving this. Design/methodology/approach This is a conceptual paper that adopts a broadly inductive approach, building on an extensive analysis of both theoretical research and publicly available secondary data to develop a framework depicting three key strategies associated with CFG’s internationalisation. Findings Three factors are identified as being especially pertinent in CFG’s international expansion: the composition of CFG’s top management team; the attempts to establish a unifying “City identity”; and CFG’s forays into more peripheral leagues around the world after having established itself at the “top end” of the game. Practical implications The framework presented in this paper is particularly oriented towards a practitioner audience. Managers of firms operating in football, as well as in other industries in which the pressure to be both globally integrated and locally responsive is particularly acute, can draw lessons from both the framework and the broader insights presented here on CFG’s global expansion. Social implications Football is widely regarded as the world’s most popular sport, and fans often take matters very seriously when it comes to the club they support. How football clubs are run is, therefore, a matter of considerable societal interest, as demonstrated by various fan protests over the years. As global, multi-club ownership structures like that adopted by CFG become more commonplace, this study will provide football fans with some insight into the strategies of these companies and how their own clubs fit within these ownership models. Originality/value This study addresses an under-researched topic: the international expansion of a prominent football holding company.

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“…Thus, disparate knowledge intensity might determine the differences in venture internationalisation strategy (Deligianni et al ., 2015; Ferreira et al ., 2017; Mejri et al ., 2018). Knowledge is a firm's valuable strategic resource that enables to achieve and maintain competitive advantages and SE in the international arena (Aggarwal and Kapoor, 2018; Autio et al ., 2000; De Clercq et al ., 2012; Feng et al ., 2021; Foroudi et al ., 2021). A firm's internationalisation strategy requires the absorption of new knowledge to improve performance and competitiveness (D'Angelo et al ., 2020; Zahra et al ., 2020).…”

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Internationalisation, knowledge intensity, adaptive culture and absorptive capacity: a strategic entrepreneurship enabling logic for export firms

Luu

2023

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PurposeThis study proposes a logic to enable strategic entrepreneurship for export firms through absorptive capacity and adaptive culture to capitalise on the knowledge intensity from internationalisation.Design/methodology/approachThe study sample comprises 422 key role employees at 98 export firms in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The data are analysed using a structural equation model.FindingsThe results reveal that the firm's knowledge intensity may serve as a reservoir, absorbing and reconciling knowledge acquired from internationalisation and redistributing it to strategic entrepreneurship. A firm's absorptive capacity and adaptive culture can act as buffers, allowing internationalisation knowledge to permeate and transfer to administrative bodies and fostering strategic entrepreneurship.Originality/valueThis study proposes an integrated model of the relationship between the degree of internationalisation and strategic entrepreneurship through novel lenses of knowledge-based perspective with the organisational capabilities.

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The effect of home country characteristics on the internationalization of EMNEs: The moderating role of knowledge stock

Cited by 8 publications

References 187 publications

Institutional constraints and exporting of emerging‐market firms: The moderating role of innovation capabilities and digital transformation

Institutional constraints and exporting of emerging‐market firms: The moderating role of innovation capabilities and digital transformation

Taking on the world: the internationalisation of City Football Group

Internationalisation, knowledge intensity, adaptive culture and absorptive capacity: a strategic entrepreneurship enabling logic for export firms

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