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How emerging market governments promote outward FDI: Experience from China

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In this article, the authors developed the logic that OFDI promotion policies set by emerging market governments are economically imperative and institutionally complementary to offsetting competitive disadvantages of emerging market enterprises in global competition.
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This article is published in Journal of World Business.The article was published on 2010-01-01. It has received 950 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Emerging markets & Foreign direct investment.

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Chinese Private Firms’ Outward Foreign Direct Investment: Does Firm Ownership and Size Matter?

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated and explained the behaviors, motives, and characteristics of Chinese privately owned enterprises' (POEs) outward foreign direct investment (OFDI), and compared this with the behaviors and motives of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs), using the institutional perspective and resources-based view.
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Chinese firms in Vietnam: investment motives, institutional environment and human resource challenges

TL;DR: The authors examined the investment strategy and labour management practices of MNCs from emerging economies, such as China, in developing countries like Vietnam, and argued that the role of institutional actors differs across ownership forms and industrial sectors and that a multi-theoretical perspective, including in particular the political economy perspective, is needed to study Chinese MNC practices in order to understand how the practices are shaped and perceived.
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Home-country environment and firms’ outward foreign direct investment decision: Evidence from Chinese firms

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the environmental effect of the home country on firms' outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) decisions, and found that the business environment is negatively associated with firms' decisions to invest abroad, and that such a negative relationship can be intensified for firms with state ownership or without an export network.
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State ownership and transparency in foreign direct investment

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the effect of ownership effects on FDI disclosure and find that state ownership reduces FDI transparency and that SOEs are less sensitive to host country political risk than private firms, while SOEs from better-governed countries are more transparent.
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Marketized state ownership and foreign expansion of emerging market multinationals: Leveraging institutional competitive advantages

TL;DR: This article investigated the effect of marketized state ownership on emerging market firms' propensity to engage in foreign direct investment and found that firms with marketised state ownership may derive institutional competitive advantages from their dual responsiveness to shifting global market conditions and home government expectations which has a positive impact on their foreign investment decisions.
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Strategic responses to institutional processes

TL;DR: The authors applied the convergent insights of institutional and resource dependence perspectives to the prediction of strategic responses to institutional processes, and proposed a typology of strategies that vary in active organizational resistance from passive conformity to proactive manipulation.
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International expansion of emerging market enterprises: A springboard perspective

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a springboard perspective to describe the internationalization of emerging market multinational corporations (EM MNEs), and discuss unique traits that characterize the international expansion of EM MNE, and the unique motivations that steer them toward internationalization.
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The determinants of Chinese outward foreign direct investment

TL;DR: This paper investigated the determinants of Chinese outward direct investment and the extent to which three special explanations (capital market imperfections, special ownership advantages and institutional factors) need to be nested within the general theory of the multinational firm.
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International production and the multinational enterprise

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a taxonomy of the United Kingdom's International Direct Investment Position in the mid-1970s and present a toolkit approach to evaluate the costs and benefits of Multinational Enterprises to host countries.
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The institutional environment for multinational investment

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of political hazards on the choice of market entry mode varies across multinational firms based on the extent to which they face expropriation hazards from their potential joint-venture partners in the host country (the level of contractual hazards).
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