Behind Emerging Market Firms' Internationalization, Diversification, and Innovation: A Geographic Relational Approach

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作者：
He, Xiaoming [1 ]
Fan, Di [2 ]
Huang, Xinli [3 ]
Peng, Mike W. [4 ]
机构：
[1] East China Univ Sci & Technol, Shanghai, Peoples R China
[2] RMIT Univ, Melbourne, Australia
[3] Univ Sheffield, Sheffield, England
[4] Univ Texas Dallas, Dallas, TX USA
来源：
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT | 2025年
基金：
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词：
diversification; emerging market firms; fsQCA; geographic relational perspective; innovation; internationalization; PRODUCT DIVERSIFICATION; CULTURAL FRICTION; ACQUISITION; ORGANIZATION; BUSINESS; CHALLENGES; STRATEGIES; EXPERIENCE; CHINESE; GROWTH;
D O I：
10.1177/01492063251332551
中图分类号：
F [经济];
学科分类号：
02 ;
摘要：
The internationalization of emerging market firms (EMFs) has attracted substantial research attention. Yet, how EMFs engage in diversification and innovation during internationalization remains underexplored. Drawing insights from a geographic relational perspective, we perform a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) on a sample of EMFs. Our findings suggest that EMFs can choose from multiple equifinal internationalization pathways to capture growth opportunities in diversification and/or innovation. These new insights emphasize that achieving diversification or innovation requires a combination of organizational contextuality, international path dependence, and geographic practice attributes. We further develop a taxonomy of five EMFs' geographic relational configurations for diversification and/or innovation: entrenching specialist, niche explorer, global adapter, transnational agent, and strategic aspirant. Overall, by unleashing the power of configurational analysis, this paper reveals what is behind the intriguing internationalization of EMFs with a focus on diversification and innovation.
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