The dynamics of the liability of foreignness: A global study of survival in financial services

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Zaheer, S; Mosakowski, E
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
• 刊物名称: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0143-2095
• DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0266(199706)18:6<439::AID-SMJ884>3.0.CO;2-Y
• 发表日期: 1997
• 页码: 439-463
• 关键词: dynamic competitive advantage; Multinational enterprise; organizational ecology; Liability of foreignness; financial services

摘要

We study the impact of 'foreignness' on survival in interbank currency trading worldwide over the period 1974-93. In particular we develop hypotheses on the behavior of the liability of foreignness over time, and on the consequences of evolving sources of firm-level competitive advantage on this liability. We lest these hypotheses on the population of 2667 market-making trading rooms located in 47 countries worldwide that either existed in 1974 or entered the industry between 1974 and 1993. The results show that there is a liability of foreignness, and that it changes over rime. Further strategic and organizational factors such as the adoption of technology by these firms and their mode of internal control significantly influenced survival, as did location-related factors such as the intensity of local and foreign competition. (C) 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.