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Leveraging the benefits of location decisions into performance : a global view from matched MNE

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Yong, Yang and Driffield, Nigel L. (2022) Leveraging the benefits of location decisions into performance : a global view from matched MNE. Journal of Business Research, 139 . pp. 468-483. doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.09.071

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Abstract

We examine how firms leverage their resources, through FDI decisions into profits growth. Drawing on over 19,000 multinational firms, we employ a matching process and find that while investment in developed countries leads to productivity improvement, profits growth is not automatic, but requires continued productivity growth. Contrasting the emphasis placed on different firm-level resources by the resource-based view and the knowledge-based view, we show that a firm’s capability to invest in firm-specific assets accelerates the speed of reaping the rents from knowledge seeking FDI in developed countries. In addition, profits growth as a result from investing in developing countries is greater for firms who appoint foreign directors from the same global or regional cluster as their foreign subsidiaries. Moreover, developing country MNEs, if properly deploying their firm resources, can leverage the benefits of FDI location into performance better than developed country MNEs.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
H Social Sciences > HF Commerce
H Social Sciences > HG Finance
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Strategy & International Business
Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Investments, Foreign, International business enterprises, Globalization -- Economic aspects, Industrial productivity
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Business Research
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
ISSN: 0148-2963
Official Date: February 2022
Dates:
DateEvent
February 2022Published
13 October 2021Available
28 September 2021Accepted
Volume: 139
Page Range: pp. 468-483
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.09.071
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
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Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
ES/V002740/1[ESRC] Economic and Social Research Councilhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000269
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