题    目：MNEs’ Within-host-country Strategy, Structure, and Performance

报告人：马旭飞副教授，香港中文大学商学院

时    间：2014年4月15日（星期二）下午2:30-4:00

地    点：西安交通大学管理学院313教室

Abstract

A comprehensive review of the literature on MNEs’ strategy and structure suggests an important research gap, 

which is an intermediate level of analysis with a focus on the totality of an MNE’s subsidiaries within a single host 

country. By introducing the strategic roles of an MNE’s host country headquarters (HCHQ) in a large emerging 

market, we ask two questions: 1) How does the HCHQ facilitate an MNE’s within-host-country diversification? and 2) What determines the location choice of an MNE’s HCHQ? As an extension, we

 further ask another related question: How much does subnational location matter to foreign subsidiary performance?

 We address these questions in three empirical studies by using a large and longitudinal sample of MNEs’ foreign 

subsidiaries in China. We hope that this series of studies will help in generating a more complete picture of 

MNEs’ strategy, structure, and performance.

马旭飞副教授简介：

Xufei Ma (PhD, National University of Singapore) is an Associate Professor (tenured) in the Department of 

Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include multinational firms 

(business groups) into and from China, M&A and strategic alliances, and the extension of organizational 

theory in the setting of global strategy and emerging markets. He has published in the Academy of Management 

Journal, Strategic Management Journal, and Journal of International Business Studies. He won the Haynez Prize

 for the Most Promising Scholar from the Academy of International Business. He is now a member of the Editoria

l Board of Journal of Management Studies, Global Strategy Journal, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and a

 reprehensive at large for Asia Academy of Management.

http://www.bschool.cuhk.edu.hk/research-activities/faculty-detail.asp?StaffID=368&DID=5 

Papers used for the seminar:

?  Ma, X. &Delios, A. 2010. Host country headquarters and an MNE’s subsequent within-country diversifications. Journal of International Business Studies, 41: 517-525. 

?  Ma, X., Delios, A., & Lau, C.M. 2013. Beijing or Shanghai? The strategic location choice of large MNEs’

 host country headquarters in China. Journal of International Business Studies, 44: 953-961. 

?  Ma, X., Tong, T. W., & Fitza, M. 2013. How much does subnational region matter to foreign subsidiary performance? 

Evidence from Fortune Global 500 corporations’ investment in China. Journal of International Business Studies, 44, 66-87. 

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2014年4月14日