The Regional Focus of Asian Multinational Enterprises

Simon Collinson and Alan M. Rugman ()
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Simon Collinson: Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

No 2007-08, Working Papers from Indiana University, Kelley School of Business, Department of Business Economics and Public Policy

Abstract: In recent issues of this journal a debate has raged concerning the appropriate nature of academic research in the Asia Pacific region. In keeping with the expressed desire for both rigor and regional relevance in this research, we wish to demonstrate a strong commonality between the performance of large Asian firms and others from Europe and North America. The large Asian firms mostly operate on an intra-regional basis. It has been assumed that the path to success for Asian firms is globalization, yet we show that the literature supporting this is confined to a handful of unrepresentative case studies.

Keywords: Asian multinationals; regional strategy; internationalization; bibliometric analysis; firm-specific advantages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2007
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Published in Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 2007

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