Cross-Border Strategic Alliances and Foreign Market Entry
Cross-Border Strategic Alliances and Foreign Market Entry
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跨境战略联盟和国外市场进入
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2006
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Larry D. Qiu
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Larry D. Qiu
This paper develops a model to study firms’ incentives to form cross-border strategic alliances and their choice of foreign market entry modes (i.e., export or FDI). We find that cross-border strategic alliances promote FDI. Lower distribution costs and greater alliance synergies raise the relative attractiveness of FDI over export. There exist FDI-inducing alliance incentives. In equilibrium, alliances are formed if the firms’ products are sufficiently differentiated. JEL Classification No.: F12, F23