Structural inertia, imitation, and foreign expansion:: South Korean firms and business groups in China, 1987-95

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Guillén, MF
• 署名单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/3069378
• 发表日期: 2002
• 页码: 509-525
• 关键词: industry; INVESTMENT; strategy; GROWTH; AGE; Isomorphism; COMPETITION; governance; patterns; adoption

摘要

The foreign expansion of firms is treated as an instance of organizational and strategic change shaped by structural inertia and imitation. A longitudinal analysis of South Korean firms in China shows that business group experience and imitation among firms from the same home-country industry increase the rate of foreign expansion. Industry imitation effects tend to decrease after a firm makes its first foreign entry.