报告人:EDEN YIN (尹一丁) 英国剑桥大学judge商学院
主持人:杜健 副教授
报告时间:2014年4月4日(周五)10:00-11:30
报告地点:体育外围平台APP1102会议室
报告内容简介:
Foreign firms are increasingly moving their research operations to emerging markets. This represents a new technology strategy that foreign
firms are adopting to achieve low development costs, gain better consumer insights and access to novel local technologies. However,
whether such a R&D strategy can be effective or the drivers for its effectiveness remains under investigated. Using absorptive capacity as a
theoretical framework, we examine the effectiveness of this strategy, e.g., whether it leads to superior performance of foreign firms’ local
subsidiaries and what are its boundary conditions. Using a large and unique dataset containing 524 foreign firms (216 WOSs and 308 IJVs) that
have R&D units in China, we show that foreign firms’ local absorptive capability plays a central role in driving the effectiveness of their
internationalization of R&D in producing superior local performance. Moreover, the two dimensions of the appropriability condition, i.e.,
local knowledge base and local government support significantly moderate this relationship. This finding demonstrates the importance of building
local knowledge and securing local government support to ensure the success of foreign firms’ R&D strategies in emerging markets. Our study
contributes to the growing literature on foreign firms’ internationalization of R&D, emerging market innovations, and organizational entry modes.
报告人简介:
Yiding (Eden) Yin
Judge Business School & Fellow of St Edmund’s College
Director of Studies, St Edmund’s College
Director of Studies, Clare College
University Senior Lecturer (with Tenure) in Marketing