...Feng Wan; Peter Williamson; Naresh Pandit Purpose Chinese firms are winning market share from foreign multinational enterprises in domestic markets. The international business literature suggests that this is happening because these firms are developing non-traditional firm-specific advantages...

...João Paulo Cerdeira Bento; António Moreira Purpose This paper aims to examine how foreign direct investment (FDI) and firm-specific advantages (FSAs) of US multinational enterprises (MNEs) majority-owned subsidiaries affect environmental pollution in host countries. The research results contribute...

...Louise Curran; Lee Keng Ng Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which the firm-specific advantages (FSAs) which underlie international expansion have proved resilient for European multinational enterprises (MNEs) operating in a key emerging market – China. Design...

... of large companies. Empirically, they test the hypotheses on a sample of large firms for an 11-year period using different measurements regarding the degree of intra-regional and inter-regional expansion. Firm-specific advantages Performance European companies Inter-regional strategy Intra...

...Alain Verbeke; Wenlong Yuan Purpose The aim of this paper is to investigate how multinational enterprise (MNE) subsidiary capabilities are influenced by the firm-specific advantages (FSAs) of the parent company, as well as by cultural and geographic distance between the home and host country...

...Mark Casson; Alain Verbeke; M. Amin Zargarzadeh; Oleksiy Osiyevskyy Purpose – The aim of the article is to establish robust linkages between internalization theory and the empirical phenomenon of international new ventures (INVs). Here, the focus is on firm-specific advantages (FSAs) critical...

... firm-specific advantages (FSAs). Originality/value – The paper adds to the existing IB understanding of MNEs’ multiple embeddedness and subsidiaries’ dual embeddedness through a wider and more structured economic sociology perspective. It provides an appropriate economic sociology-grounded...

... enterprises Multinational companies Performance Performance management Market‐based view Resources‐based view Internalization theory Industry effects Firm effects Country effects Firm‐specific advantages Country‐specific advantages Antecedents of MNE performance have been the focus of many...

... Group Publishing Limited 2011 Competitive strategy International business International competitiveness Internationalization Firm‐specific advantages Location‐specific advantages Globalization and changes in the world economy over recent years have raised new challenges for firms...

... country‐specific advantages/firm‐specific advantages (FSA/CSA) framework. In order to do so, the concepts of environmental institutional distance between countries and MNEs' availability of slack resources are used. Findings First, a low environmental institutional distance between headquarters...

... of geographic dispersion of both foreign subsidiaries and alliances, whilst firm‐specific marketing advantages mitigate the negative effect of only geographic dispersion of foreign alliances. The paper also addresses the direct and joint effects of firm‐specific advantages, country‐specific advantages...

... economies, whereas Rugman’s matrix is for firm‐level strategy covering MNE activity in both home and host countries © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Internalization theory Dunning’s eclectic paradigm firm‐specific advantages Country specific advantages Multinational enterprises 92...