• 아태비즈니스연구
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.1-16
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• 2023

Purpose Despite the ongoing digital transformation, it is not clear whether emerging market firms follow their manufacturing FDI path in the emerging digital industries. This paper examines how digital orientation affects the location strategies in internationalization and how the existing innovation capacities moderate the link between digital orientation and the location strategies. Design/methodology/approach This study chooses the Chinese setting for research design because digital transformation is already prevalent in the society and the cases of outward expansion are salient among the emerging markets. It uses the panel dataset of 976 Chinese listed firms that consists of 6,648 observations spanning from 2007 to 2017. Ordinary least square regression is used for the statistical approach with a one-year lag in the model. Findings Digital orientation increases a likelihood of emerging multinationals' entries in developed countries, and a high level of innovative capacities strengthens the link. Two groups seem to prefer entries in developed countries: firms with a high level of digital orientation with a high level of innovative capacities and firms with a low level of digital orientation, if with a low level of innovative capacities. The former reflects the context of digital transformation and the latter hints at the tax avoidance or interests in real estate. Research implications or originality While emerging multinationals are known to prefer entries in developing countries for capacity arbitrage, our results forecast that their FDI strategies may have a drastic change as digital transformation deepens.

• Asian Journal of Business Environment
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.19-28
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• 2023

Purpose: Emerging markets under industrialization have become increasingly influential over the global natural-resource transactions. However, their average deal completion rates have been relatively low. The international business (IB) literature regards the low rate as evidence of 'double hurdle', the extra disadvantages in doing overseas business for firms from developing countries. Because legitimacy building mitigates liability of foreignness, we argue that an acquirer's environmental responsibility effectively builds legitimacy. Research design, data and methodology: Stakeholders in the host country spread the acquirer's environmental responsibility so that, by raising legitimacy, they may strengthen the link between environmental responsibility and deal completion. Our dataset consists of the 608 cross-border acquisition deals announced by the 196 firms in Brazil, Russia, India, and China over 2008-2019 period. Results: A logit regression result confirms that environmental responsibility increases the likelihood of acquisition deal completion. Also, host-market stakeholders positively moderate the relationship between environmental responsibility and the likelihood of deal completion. Conclusions: Overall, this study contributes to the IB literature by identifying environmental responsibility as a key approach to lowering the double hurdle in internationalization of firms in emerging markets. Any emerging multinationals interested in the foreign, brownfield entries to the natural-resource industries must enhance the environmental responsibility, which turns out extremely important.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권10호
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• pp.274-280
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• 2017

스마트카 산업은 급속한 ICT기술의 발전과 함께 커넥티드카, 인포테인먼트, 텔레매틱스, 자율주행차, 무인자동차, 전기자동차의 상용화 추세와 함께 미래 자동차 산업의 판도를 결정할 주요한 변수로 부각되고 있다. 본 연구는 스마트카 시장의 방향을 결정할 플랫폼공급자와 완성차업체의 주도권경쟁 및 전략적 포지셔닝을 비교 분석하였다. 연구 결과, 스마트카 기술을 주도하고 있는 플랫폼업체에 비해 완성차업체는 규모의 경제, 산업 인프라 및 글로벌 생산 네트워크와 같은 높은 산업구조적 진입장벽과 헤드섹터 정보의 보유와 같은 기술적 진입장벽에도 불구하고 ICT기술면에서의 혁신적 변화가 뒷받침 되지 않을 경우, 맵핑기술과 사용자정보 접근성, 빅데이터 활용능력, 사용자 인터페이스 경험 등 스마트카 관련 영역에서 우위에 있는 플랫폼업체들에게로 주도권이 이전될 것으로 예상된다. 이러한 예상의 근거는 보다 중요해지고 있는 소프트웨어 및 플랫폼의 가치와 전기차의 상용화로 증명된 자동차구조의 간편화에 기반하고 있다. 본 연구는 기능 및 안전 적용방안이나 업체별 기술력에 대한 분석에 초점이 맞춰져 있던 기존 스마트카 관련 연구에서 한걸음 나아가 기술제휴 동향 및 플랫폼업체의 전략적 접근성 관점에서 향후 스마트카 시장의 경쟁구도를 완성차업체와 비교 연구하고 시사점을 제시한 측면에서 의의가 있다.