Adventurous Foreign Direct Investment

• Autorzy: Michał Zdziarski , Justyna Światowiec-Szczepańska , Mike Troilo , Łukasz Małys
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to explore the phenomenon of an advanced form of internationalization: foreign direct investment (FDI) in a distant location. We label this transaction "adventurous FDI", and explain how this new concept is related to, yet distinct from, other widely studied theories: born global companies, the LLL model, and the Uppsala model. We propose a theoretical typology of adventurous FDI based on two critical factors for risktaking: distance and embeddedness.

Methodology: We present a theoretical proposal of a typology of AFDIs. To support our proposal, we illustrate the typology with examples from a longitudinal study of foreign direct investments undertaken in the years 2007-2009 by Polish frms. Selection of the time period for this study is justifed by the fact that the number of FDI transactions and AFDIs has almost doubled in the observed time period. We apply methods of social network analysis to identify embeddedness of FDIs and use geographic distance measures to classify transactions on a distance scale.

Originality: Current theories of foreign direct investment (FDI) focus broadly on either gradual learning or instant globalization. We identify a new category which we term "adventurous FDI". The distinctive features of adventurous FDI includes the exploration of many unknowns related to distant locations and the use of advanced internationalization forms. We propose that embeddedness in country networks is instrumental to adventurous FDI, as the rapid learning inherent in such network arrangements enables frms to overcome the ambiguity associated with vast geographic, psychic, and cultural distance. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Internationalization; Foreign investment; Direct investments; Social Network Analysis (SNA); Network analysis

PL

Internacjonalizacja; Inwestycje zagraniczne; Inwestycje bezpośrednie; Analiza sieci społecznych; Analiza sieciowa

• Czasopismo: Journal of Management and Business Administration. Central Europe
• Rocznik: 2017
• Tom: 25
• Numer: nr 2
• Strony: 117--138

Twórcy

autor

Michał Zdziarski

• University of Warsaw, Poland

autor

Justyna Światowiec-Szczepańska

• Poznań University of Economics and Business, Poland

autor

Mike Troilo

• Collins College of Business, School of Finance, The University of Tulsa, USA

autor

Łukasz Małys

• Poznań University of Economics and Business, Poland

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DOI

10.7206/jmba.ce.2450-7814.198