Outward foreign direct investment by emerging market firms: A resource dependence logic |
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| Authors: | Jun Xia Xufei Ma Jane W Lu Daphne W Yiu |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, , Richardson, Texas, U.S.A.;2. Department of Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong, , Hong Kong, China;3. Department of Strategy and Policy, National University of Singapore, , Singapore;4. Department of Management and Marketing, University of Melbourne, , Melbourne, Australia |
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| Abstract: | This study examines and extends the resource dependence logic of diversification for a better understanding of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) activities by emerging market firms. We contend that the diversification logic is bounded by state ownership, an important but less considered component of interdependence. Our empirical results, based on panel data analysis of Chinese listed firms, suggest that the level of interdependence between Chinese and foreign firms in China in multiple forms, including symbiotic, competitive, and partner interdependencies, is positively associated with the level of the Chinese firms' OFDI activities. However, Chinese firms with higher levels of state ownership are less susceptible to the pressures imposed by foreign firms to invest abroad. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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| Keywords: | resource dependence theory interdependence state ownership outward foreign direct investment emerging market firm |
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