Pace, Rhythm, and Scope: Process Dependence in Building a Profitable Multinational Corporation
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چکیده
Many potential benefits of foreign expansion have been identified in the literature, yet empirical support that multinational firms perform better than domestic firms is mixed. This paper takes a longitudinal perspective and argues that how much a firm benefits from having foreign subsidiaries depends on its process of internationalization. We argue that a firm ́s capacity to absorb expansion is subject to constraints: some expansion patterns increase profitability less than others, owing to diseconomies of time-compression. We hypothesize that the speed of internationalization, the spread of the geographical and product markets entered, and the irregularity of the expansion pattern negatively moderate a firm’s increase in profitability resulting from international expansion. Model estimations based on panel data raised strong support for these predictions.
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