超越国家市场:新兴非洲跨国公司的案例

Ebes Esho, G. Verhoef
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新兴市场跨国公司(EMNEs)的研究结果给学者们提出了一些有趣的问题。虽然有些问题很容易通过现有理论来解释,但其他问题则更为复杂。对非洲跨国公司的研究是有限的,而且是最近才出现的现象,关于它们国际化的历史记载很少。早期的研究结果表明,非洲公司表现出与其他新兴市场国家不同的国际化行为。然而,非洲的新兴市场国家及其国际化行为是独一无二的吗?本文从现有理论的角度对三家新兴非洲跨国公司的国际化进行了阐述,发现多种理论在解释它们的国际化时趋于一致。他们独特的国际化道路来自于他们在应对非洲多样化,有时甚至是极端的环境挑战和机遇方面的独立努力。除了创始人的教育和经历所导致的全球倾向外,创始人网络关系在非洲新兴市场企业的国际化进程中也起着主导作用。非洲的商业环境,尤其是国际化的环境是独特的,有时甚至是极端的。例如,制度空白和非正式市场是普遍和巨大的。然而,非洲的情况使我们能够细致入微地了解解释EMNEs国际化的现有理论和理论之间的联系。
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Beyond national markets: The case of emerging African multinationals
ABSTRACT Findings from research on emerging market multinationals (EMNEs) have posed some intriguing questions to scholars. While some of the questions are easy to explain through the lens of extant theories, others are more complex. Research on African multinationals is limited and being only a recent phenomenon, historical accounts of their internationalization is scarce. Early findings suggest that African firms exhibit distinct internationalization behaviour from other EMNEs. However, are EMNEs from Africa and their internationalization behaviour unique? This paper expounds the internationalization of three nascent African multinationals through the lens of extant theories and finds that multiple theories converge to explain their internationalization. Their distinct paths to internationalization come from their independent efforts in navigating Africa's diverse, and sometimes extreme, contextual challenges and opportunities. Alongside the global orientation of founders that originates from their education and experience, relationships from founders’ networks also play a dominant role in the internationalization process of African EMNEs. The conditions for business, especially for internationalization, in Africa are unique, and sometimes extreme. Institutional voids and informal markets, for example, are pervasive and huge. However, the African context enables a nuanced understanding of extant theories and the linkages between theories in explaining internationalization of EMNEs.
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