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The regional focus of Asian multinational enterprises

Collinson, S. and Rugman, A. M. (2007) The regional focus of Asian multinational enterprises. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 24 (4). pp. 429-446. ISSN 1572-9958

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1007/s10490-006-9035-y

Abstract/Summary

In recent issues of this Journal a debate has raged concerning the appropriate nature of academic research in the Asia Pacific region. While we support the desire for both rigor and regional relevance in this research, we wish to demonstrate a strong commonality between the performance of large Asian firms and others from Europe and North America. This prompts us to question the need for a new theory of the MNE based on the experience of Asian firms. Like their counterparts elsewhere, the large Asian firms mostly operate on an intra-regional basis. While in the literature it has been assumed that the path to success for Asian firms is globalization, we show that the data supporting this is confined to a handful of unrepresentative case studies. We also present a bibliometric analysis which shows an overwhelming case study sample selection bias in academic studies towards this small number of unrepresentative cases

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Henley Business School > International Business and Strategy
ID Code:26239
Uncontrolled Keywords:Asian multinationals; Regional strategy; Internationalization; Bibliometric analysis; Firm-specific advantages
Additional Information:From the issue entitled "25th Anniversary Special Issue"
Publisher:Springer

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