'We've learnt how to be local': the deepening territorial embeddedness of Samsung-Tesco in South Korea

Coe, Neil M.; Lee, Yong‐Sook

doi:10.1093/jeg/lbs057

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“…Tacconelli and Wrigley (2009) found that to achieve organizational legitimacy, retail TNCs operate at country, region, city and neighbourhood levels to embed into Chinese logistics, real estate and consumer cultures. However, retail TNCs' management practices in China have been adjusted over time, showing the changing nature of territorial embeddedness (see Coe and Lee, 2013). The present research argues that, in order to achieve long-term legitimacy, retail TNCs subtly alter local institutional settings through hybridization.…”

Section: Hybridization As Management Practicesmentioning

confidence: 74%

“…We even provide them with education, concerning how to produce high quality, low cost products and how to use appropriate packaging and transportation methods. (Interview 18, Expansion Executive, Wal-Mart, Shenzhen, 2013) Wal-Mart's deepening relationship with suppliers extends its territorial embeddedness in the host market (see Coe and Lee, 2013). The findings show the retail TNCs dealt with business networks differentially, including effective inter-firm relationships, e.g.…”

Section: Responses To Business Network and Empowermentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Hybridization practices as organizational responses to institutional demands: The development of Western retail TNCs in China

Siebers

2016

J Econ Geogr

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This longitudinal case study evaluates the strategic responses of Western retail transnational corporations (TNCs) to China's business environment. It explicates how hybridization helps adapt and ultimately alter local institutional settings. Two-fold findings are discussed: the hybrid practices impacting on host market institutions, involving laws and regulations, fair competition, business networks, empowerment, corporate social responsibility, employee retention and quality control; and those impacting on consumption patterns, involving tailored offerings, targeting, new market ideology, store location, price and cost leadership. By doing so, the TNCs create new competitive pressures on China's retail market. The findings show the transfer of management practices that do not align with a host market may subtly alter its norms and practices. To sustain competitive advantage and enhance territorial embeddedness, the TNCs switch their key stakeholders from the governments to their businesses, the society and the consumers over time. However, their long-term legitimacy remains uncertain in China.

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Section: Hybridization As Management Practicesmentioning

confidence: 74%

Section: Responses To Business Network and Empowermentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hybridization practices as organizational responses to institutional demands: The development of Western retail TNCs in China

Siebers

2016

J Econ Geogr

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“…However, with the exception of a few studies (e.g., Coe and Lee, 2013;Ebersberger and Herstad, 2012;Wood and Reynolds, 2012), it has not fully addressed the question of whether similar mechanisms and principles apply at more disaggregate levels, i.e., among cities within one country. Our findings of the intrinsic effects that arise from variations of firms' internal networks show that differences in a firm's internal spatial concentration and dispersion at city level can generate complex and varied performance outcomes.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Reinforcing this premise, other studies suggest that business groups use their units in order to achieve proximal access to knowledge resources, access knowledge from several locations and clusters, and transfer knowledge across business units (Coe and Lee, 2013;Ebersberger and Herstad, 2012;Kafouros et al, 2012). Studying the evolution of collaborative innovation networks, Ter Wal (2013) suggests that there is a growing tendency for innovators to collaborate with distant partners as the degree of appropriability increases.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…Hence, higher relatedness of the sourced knowledge may accelerate knowledge absorption between units. Furthermore, there are group-wide benefits from increasing the number of units in one area (Coe and Lee, 2013). Hence, network concentration may facilitate the technology transfer process by increasing a unit's ability to access such knowledge.…”

Section: Network Concentrationmentioning

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Technology transfer within China and the role of location choices

Kafouros

Wang

2015

International Business Review

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We examine how emerging country business groups overcome various technological constraints and succeed in enhancing their performance. Our theoretical contribution lies in showing how the ability of a business unit to benefit from intra-group technology transfer depends on the idiosyncratic manner in which the group geographically configures its network of units. The findings reveal that the geographic dispersion and concentration of the units of a group alter both the ability and willingness of its business units to transfer technologies to (or receive technologies from) other units and subsequently result in different performance outcomes. The location of a business unit also determines whether or not a unit competes with other fellow units and, consequently, influences how much a unit benefits from the technologies held by the group.

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Localization/Delocalization

Zhou

2017

International Encyclopedia of Geography

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Localization emerged as a countercurrent to globalization. The proliferation of global production networks reduced local control of economies, and led to delocalization. However, fears of a homogenized world dominated by a few leading transnational corporations never materialized. Transnational corporations increasingly adopt strategies to localize investment, management, product design, and marketing as an effective approach to global expansion. Localization is also the primary means through which localities respond to the challenge of globalization, namely by mobilizing local resources to couple with global networks, and furthering the local embeddedness of foreign corporations. The coexistence of localization and globalization is often described as “glocalization.”

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'We've learnt how to be local': the deepening territorial embeddedness of Samsung-Tesco in South Korea

Cited by 56 publications

References 45 publications

Hybridization practices as organizational responses to institutional demands: The development of Western retail TNCs in China

Hybridization practices as organizational responses to institutional demands: The development of Western retail TNCs in China

Technology transfer within China and the role of location choices

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