Will China's multinacionals succeed globally or regionally?
By: RUGMAN, Alan M
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Contributor(s): LI, Jing.
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ArticlePublisher: Oxford, UK : Elsevier, October 2007European Management Journal 25, 5, p. 333-343Abstract: Basic theory suggests that multinational enterprises (MNEs) succeed when they develop knowledge-based capabilities, often called firm-specific advantages (FSAs). In Chinas case its large MNEs have few such knowledge based FSAs. Instead, they are building scale economies based on Chinas country-specific advantages (CSAs) in relatively cheap labor and natural resources. Thus, Chinas MNEs will likely become knowledge seekers as they go abroad, not knowledge takers. Unlike Western MNEs who transfer knowledge and technology through their FSAs, Chinas MNEs will lack such FSAs for some years to come. While Chinas MNEs will have difficulty in sustaining their initial forays abroad, it is likely that they will expand intra-regionally rather than globally and in a similar manner to other large multinationals
Basic theory suggests that multinational enterprises (MNEs) succeed when they develop knowledge-based capabilities, often called firm-specific advantages (FSAs). In Chinas case its large MNEs have few such knowledge based FSAs. Instead, they are building scale economies based on Chinas country-specific advantages (CSAs) in relatively cheap labor and natural resources. Thus, Chinas MNEs will likely become knowledge seekers as they go abroad, not knowledge takers. Unlike Western MNEs who transfer knowledge and technology through their FSAs, Chinas MNEs will lack such FSAs for some years to come. While Chinas MNEs will have difficulty in sustaining their initial forays abroad, it is likely that they will expand intra-regionally rather than globally and in a similar manner to other large multinationals
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