Abstract

Guest Editors Li, Mingjun Ding, Yuan Executive Editor Chen, Jieping Editorial Board Members Xu, Bin Rui, Meng Chen, Shimin Lu, Wenzhen Chen, Shaohui Tian, Ming (CEIBS EMBA 2005) Jiao, Sheng (CEIBS EMBA 2008) Li, Wen (CEIBS EMBA 2010)

Keyword

Corporate Social Responsibility ;  CSR ;  企业社会责任

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特邀编委 李铭俊 丁远 执行编委 陈杰平 编委会成员 许斌 芮萌 陈世敏 吕文珍 陈少晦 田明（中欧EMBA2005级校友） 焦胜（中欧EMBA2008级校友） 李文（中欧EMBA2010级校友）

Keyword

Corporate Social Responsibility ;  CSR ;  企业社会责任

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Emerging multinational enterprises (EMNEs) often engage in strategic-asset-seeking foreign direct investment (FDI) for competitive catch-up. This study explores the linkages between an EMNE’s competitive scenario consisting of a configuration of its awareness-motivation-capability (AMC) conditions and the comparative institutional advantages of its strategic-asset-seeking destination. Our configurational analyses of Chinese FDIs in the technology-intensive industries of OECD countries reveal a taxonomy of four distinct asset-seeking strategies of EMNEs. Our findings shed novel insights into the strategic variations within EMNEs based on a theoretically and methodologically extended AMC framework. This study also extends the varieties of capitalism literature by addressing the implications of comparative institutional advantages for foreign entrants, rather than domestic incumbent firms.

Keyword

awareness-motivation-capability framework ;  competitive catch-up ;  emerging multinational enterprise ;  foreign direct investment ;  fuzzy set methods ;  strategic asset seeking