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    Do Foreign Firms in China Incur a Liability of Foreignness? The Local Chinese Firms’ Perspective

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    Authors
    Jiang, Fuming
    Liu, L.
    Stening, B.
    Date
    2014
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Abstract

    Liability of foreignness has been one of the building blocks of multinational enterprise theory development, but we have limited knowledge about the liability of foreignness in the context of multinationals operating in developing countries. This study suggests that in a developing country like China, foreignness may still exist, but its negative impact on foreign firms’ performance may have become insignificant. Local Chinese firms were found to enjoy significant location-based advantages over their foreign counterparts, contributing to liability of foreignness. However, the adverse effects of liability of foreignness on foreign firms appear to be off-set by the foreign firms’ superior firm-specific and multinationality advantages over local Chinese firms. Further, the location-based advantages that foreign firms have built up over time further serve to strength their overall competitive position in China.

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    Jiang, Fuming and Liu, Lixian and Stening, Bruce W. 2014. Do Foreign Firms in China Incur a Liability of Foreignness? The Local Chinese Firms’ Perspective. Thunderbird International Business Review. 56 (5): pp. 501-518.
    Source Title
    Thunderbird International Business Review
    DOI
    10.1002/tie.21649
    ISSN
    1096-4762
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    This is the accepted version of the following article: Jiang, Fuming and Liu, Lixian and Stening, Bruce W. 2014. Do Foreign Firms in China Incur a Liability of Foreignness? The Local Chinese Firms’ Perspective. Thunderbird International Business Review. 56 (5): pp. 501-518, which has been published in final form at http://doi.org/10.1002/tie.21649

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33253
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    • Curtin Research Publications

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