Internationalization as a strategy process
Internationalization as a strategy process
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DOI：
10.1002/smj.4250130908
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发表时间：
1992-12
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
L. Melin
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作者：
L. Melin
本文对国际商务研究领域进行了批判性的回顾。该领域的特点是相当多的知识多样性，该领域的多学科性质模糊了理论重点。审查集中在三个主题上，这些主题有助于阐明国际化作为一种战略过程；国际化的阶段模型，对跨国公司战略和结构之间的联系的研究，以及对跨国公司的行政程序和最近的跨国公司组织模式的研究。连续阶段模型过于确定，只强调国际化的早期阶段。对遵循策略的结构研究的概念贡献具有非常静态的特点。对跨国公司管理流程的研究，其经验基础和规范倾向值得商榷。提出了未来将国际化作为一个过程进行研究的三个关键主题。这些主题涉及审查中发现的主要遗漏和弱点，它们是：收购进程和国际化研究、跨国公司动态进程研究以及外部环境国际化进程研究。
This paper critically reviews the field of international business research. The field is characterized by considerable intellectual diversity, where theoretical focus is blurred by the multidisciplinary nature of the field. The review focuses on three themes that help shed light on internationalization as a strategy process; stage models of internationalization, studies of the link between strategy and structure in MNCs, and studies of administrative processes in MNCs and recent organizational models for MNCs. Sequential stages models are too deterministic and stress only early stages of internationalization. Conceptual contributions from research on structures following strategies have a very static character. Research on management processes in MNCs have a questionable empirical base and normative bent. Three key themes for future research on internationalization as a process are suggested. These themes, dealing with major omissions and weaknesses identified in the review, are: the study of acquisition processes and internationalization, the study of dynamic processes in MNCs, and the study of internationalization processes in their outer contexts.