 Innovativeness and the relevance of political ties in Chinese MNEsCong Su, Lingshuang Kong and Francesco Ciabuschi Journal of Business Research, 2022, vol. 153, issue C, 494-508 Abstract: In light of emerging-market multinationals’ substantial engagement in strategic asset-seeking internationalization, this study explores the effects of home-country political ties on innovativeness and reverse innovation transfer in Chinese multinationals. Based on a survey of 99 Chinese multinationals and their 177 subsidiaries, the results reveal that headquarters’ political ties hamper their innovativeness, an important factor in stimulating subsidiary innovativeness and, in turn, reverse innovation transfer in Chinese multinationals. This study contributes to the literature on subsidiary entrepreneurship and emerging-market multinationals and suggests that, without a certain level of innovativeness at headquarters, relying only on strategic asset-seeking overseas investment to achieve innovation catch-up is problematic. Our findings point also to the co-evolving nature of Chinese multinationals’ competence growth and catch-up process, and support the view on the liability of stateness suffered by Chinese multinationals. Keywords: Chinese multinationals; Headquarters innovativeness; Subsidiary innovativeness; Reverse innovation transfer; Political ties (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jbrese:v:153:y:2022:i:c:p:494-508 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.08.043 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Business Research is currently edited by A. G. Woodside More articles in Journal of Business Research from Elsevier |
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