Che Tang
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Item type:Publication, Growing the Business in the Regions: TMT Member's Regional Responsibility and Regional Performance(2023); Studies find that some multinational enterprises (MNEs) pursue business opportunities globally while others focus on certain regions. Firm-level factors such as technological advantages and complexity management may contribute to this difference, but the results are not conclusive. This paper argues that MNE top executives’ regional responsibilities and successful role enactment also influence the development of MNE’s footprint in different regions. Our analysis with data from international automotive companies’ regional sales development from 2003 to 2019 showed that top management team (TMT) member’s regional responsibility positively contributes to development of regional performance when the executive does not have parallel corporate functional responsibilities. Meanwhile, regional economic growth and the leadership from a foreign CEO strengthen this positive effect of regional heads in TMT. We discuss how our findings enrich the understanding of MNE geographic scope and contribute to the literature of regional management as well as foreign executives.Type:conference paper - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Publication, The Regional Perspective of Studying International Firms: A Review, Synthesis, and Research Agenda(2023)After two decades of research of international companies from the regional perspective, this stream of literature is established but many issues remain insufficiently discussed. This article reviews and synthesizes the rich but fragmented studies from the regional perspective and organizes our existing knowledge in a framework with three key themes in the center: interregional diversification, intra-regional internationalization, and regional management. The synthesis shows that most of the existing studies tend to address these three aspects in an isolated manner and theorize at the firm-or institutional-level. Basing on the result of the review, I put forward a research agenda that calls for more research about the interface between inter-and intra-regional internationalization, the managers' role in companies' regional strategy, the institutional complexity as well as contextual contingencies, and the theorization of activities across the value chain. Studies focusing on these topics will contribute to our understanding regarding region as a crucial level of geography for international business activities and will complement the existing theories about firm internationalization that view countries as the major unit of geography.Type:working paper