Dynamic Embeddedness In Chinese Firm Internationalization

Christoph Lattemann, Ilan Alon, Francesca Spigarelli, and Svetla Trifonova Marinova
Publication Date: 
April 1st, 2017

This co-authored piece presents a multilevel framework to analyze the motivations and location choices of Chinese OFDIs. It contributes to theory-integration on Chinese OFDI flows and patterns by offering a framework that combines country-, industry- and firm-level analyses and by reflecting aspects from the resource-based view (firm-specific advantages), institutional-based view (push/pull home- and host-country factors), and network-based view (network relations). The piece also explicitly incorporates “time” as a variable into our framework by introducing and explaining the concept of dynamic embeddedness as an interaction dimension to reflect the inherent dynamics on all levels and actors.

This article appears in Christoph Lattemann, Ilan Alon, Francesca Spigarelli, and Svetla Trifonova Marinova, “Dynamic Embeddedness In Chinese Firm Internationalization,” Thunderbird International Business Review, Vol. 59, No. 4 (2017), pp. 547-559.