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Clustering and interorganizational dynamics in foreign market entry strategies. Evidence from Chinese MNEs
2015
Owing to the globalization and economic integration worldwide, countries and markets become more independent, and companies and people are all inevitably involved in the global marketplace. This situation increases the importance of international management (IM) in nowadays business practice and the relevance of study on it. The essential focus of IM research is on multinational enterprise (MNE) strategies, among which the foreign market entry strategies have been underlined and received a great deal of attention. The carried out research aims to increase the knowledge on MNE’s behaviors and strategic decisions in foreign direct investment (FDI). We first gave a retrospective look at foreig…
Institutional logics and social enterprises: Entry mode choices of foreign hospitals in China
2020
When social enterprises, being defined by their social mission and profitability, internationalize, they need to\ud respond to institutional logics in the host country. By juxtaposing institutional logic and entry mode choice\ud literature, this paper shows how social enterprises accommodate different institutional logics when they enter\ud foreign markets. We collected data on Chinese healthcare reform, governmental policies and their changes, and\ud conducted 36 in-depth interviews and three expert group meetings. By analyzing five non-Chinese hospitals\ud entering China, we show how social enterprises, as hybrid organizations, respond to governmental, commercial,\ud and social institutio…
Business Models and Market Entry Mode Choice of Small Software Firms
2007
So far the critical choice of the entry mode for a target country has been examined ignoring the special features of firms. Particularly, the impact of the wide variation of business models of software firms has been ignored. This multi-case study investigates the relation between the business model and the entry mode of eight software firms. The results imply that the product strategy and the service and implementation model of a software firm are closely connected to the entry mode choice, while the distribution model of intangible software products does not seem to have impact on the operation mode. peerReviewed