Deepening the timing dimension of emerging market multinational companies’ internationalization – An exploratory perspective

Building from the nascent debate pertaining to internationalization trajectories followed by EMNCs, this article proposes better understand behaviors of multinational companies emerging markets (EMNCs). A database containing complete trajectory 110 firms was created analyze sequence patterns. Optimal matching technique helped us build a taxonomy seven distinct patterns (serial acquirers, late sequential contractual internationalizers, collaborative opportunistic wholly owned internationalizers). Our findings partially confirm previous works process EMNCs and shed light on atypical which have not been studied yet. These allow obtain new insights, deepening our understanding theories depicting how behave such as springboard theory Linkage Leverage Learning framework. We also provide recommendations MNC managers for public policy.