Network complementaries in the international expansion of emerging market firms |
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| Institution: | 1. Faculty of Business Administration, University of Macau, Avenida Padre Tomás Pereira, Taipa, Macau;2. School of Marketing & International Business, Victoria University of Wellington, 23 Lambton Quay, Pipitea Campus, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand;1. National Research Base of Intelligent Manufacturing Service, Chongqing Technology & Business University, Chongqing 400067, China;2. Haub School of Business, Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA 19131, USA;1. Henley Business School, University of Reading, United Kingdom;2. Ivey Business School, Western University, Canada;1. CentER, Tilburg University, Heuvelstraat 14, 5131AP Alphen, The Netherlands;2. São Paulo School of Business Administration (EAESP), Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Rua Itapeva, 474, 8th Floor, São Paulo, SP 01332-000, Brazil;3. São Paulo School of Business Administration (EAESP), Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Rua Bage 139 ap 51, Villa Mariana, São Paulo, SP 04012-140, Brazil;1. Durham University Business School, Mill Hill Lane, Durham, DH1 3LB, United Kingdom;2. School of Communication and Culture, Royal Roads University, 2005 Sooke Road, Victoria, BC, V9B 5Y2, Canada;3. School of Art and Media, Beijing Normal University, 19 Xinjiekou Outer Street, Bei Tai Ping Zhuang, Haidian, Beijing, 100875, China |
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| Abstract: | Can domestic political capital be transferable to more or less similar institutional contexts abroad? Motivated by contradictory results in two streams of research, this study seeks to combine the insights from two theoretical arguments and conceptualize the role of domestic political ties in international expansion as a dual problem of securing key resources from home governments and looking for opportunities in foreign markets and matching resources to capture them. We adopt the notion of network complementarity to examine the complementarity effect of domestic political ties and foreign ties on international expansion. The implication is that EMNE research that concentrates on either looking for foreign opportunities or securing domestic resources, but not both, is likely to be incomplete when international expansion is being studied. Using a longitudinal panel dataset of Chinese international new ventures expanding to 105 foreign markets, we find a positive interactive effect of domestic political ties and foreign ties on Chinese MNEs’ internationalization. This positive interactive effect on internationalization is found to be stronger for expanding to developing host markets than to developed host markets. We discuss the implications of these findings for research on domestic political ties, the international expansion literature, the network complementarity literature, and the international entrepreneurship literature. |
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| Keywords: | Network complementarities Domestic political ties Foreign ties International expansion Host market institutions |
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