The Impact of the home country on internationalization

© 2018 Elsevier Inc. We analyze how a firm's home country influences its internationalization. We propose two complementary types of influence. First, we conceptualize a firm's international trade as shaped by four drivers: comparative advantage, comparative disadvantage, country-of-origin...

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Main Authors: Cuervo-Cazurra, A., Luo, Yadong, Ramamurti, R., Ang, S.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Pergamon 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72447
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author Cuervo-Cazurra, A.
Luo, Yadong
Ramamurti, R.
Ang, S.
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description © 2018 Elsevier Inc. We analyze how a firm's home country influences its internationalization. We propose two complementary types of influence. First, we conceptualize a firm's international trade as shaped by four drivers: comparative advantage, comparative disadvantage, country-of-origin advantage, and country-of-origin liability. Second, we conceptualize the firm's foreign direct investment as shaped by four other drivers: institutional learning, competitive learning, institutional escape, and competitive escape. Taken together, these eight drivers help pull together recent theoretical advances on topics such as emerging-market multinationals, investment in tax havens, and cross-border acquisitions of firms in advanced countries. We also highlight other home-country related issues, such as strategic responses and home-host country links, in the spirit of fostering future research on home-country effects that warrant a more nuanced understanding.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-724472018-12-13T09:32:17Z The Impact of the home country on internationalization Cuervo-Cazurra, A. Luo, Yadong Ramamurti, R. Ang, S. © 2018 Elsevier Inc. We analyze how a firm's home country influences its internationalization. We propose two complementary types of influence. First, we conceptualize a firm's international trade as shaped by four drivers: comparative advantage, comparative disadvantage, country-of-origin advantage, and country-of-origin liability. Second, we conceptualize the firm's foreign direct investment as shaped by four other drivers: institutional learning, competitive learning, institutional escape, and competitive escape. Taken together, these eight drivers help pull together recent theoretical advances on topics such as emerging-market multinationals, investment in tax havens, and cross-border acquisitions of firms in advanced countries. We also highlight other home-country related issues, such as strategic responses and home-host country links, in the spirit of fostering future research on home-country effects that warrant a more nuanced understanding. 2018 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72447 10.1016/j.jwb.2018.06.002 Pergamon restricted
spellingShingle Cuervo-Cazurra, A.
Luo, Yadong
Ramamurti, R.
Ang, S.
The Impact of the home country on internationalization
title The Impact of the home country on internationalization
title_full The Impact of the home country on internationalization
title_fullStr The Impact of the home country on internationalization
title_full_unstemmed The Impact of the home country on internationalization
title_short The Impact of the home country on internationalization
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url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/72447