Foreign to all but fluent in many: The effect of multinationality on shock resilience

Harald Puhr and Jakob Müllner

Journal of World Business, 2022, vol. 57, issue 6

Abstract: The sudden COVID-19 pandemic sent shockwaves through international markets. This paper studies the relation between multinationality and risk. While IB literature agrees that internationalization, in times of relative stability, increases systematic risk, we argue that internationalization also improves resilience against exogenous shocks. Leveraging the sequential COVID-waves as a unique empirical laboratory, we show that although multinationality causes liability of foreignness that increases systematic risk, it also generates an asset of multinationality that enhances shock resilience. Yet this advantage of internationalized firms gradually erodes as less internationalized firms learn about the shock and investors adapt their valuations to the post-shock reality.

Keywords: Shock resilience; Multinationality; Systematic risk; COVID-19; Organizational learning; Real options (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101370

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