走进去业已成为中国跨国企业走出国门后面临的重大挑战。本项课题构建“制度比较-制度逻辑-制度工作”的理论框架，分析中国企业走进去的战略与绩效。我们运用组态视角，将国家制度、组织逻辑和制度工作视为一组紧密联系的要素和结构，旨在回答中国企业走进去战略的三大核心问题：“进哪里”、“谁在进”和“如何进”。制度比较研究通过对照母国和东道国的复杂制度系统，及跨国企业在国家制度的嵌入性和脱嵌性，回答中国企业“进哪里”的问题。制度逻辑研究探索制度逻辑数量、内容和关系的演化过程，回答中国企业“谁在进”的问题。制度工作研究分析中国跨国企业对制度的塑造作用，包括制度维持、破坏和创造工作，回答中国企业“如何进”的问题。在研究方法上，本项课题采用模糊集定性比较分析与传统大样本数据统计分析、案例研究相结合的方法，建立走进去战略的情境分析框架和绩效识别体系，提出影响中国企业走进去绩效的制度组态。

The “going-in” concern has become one of significant challenges for Chinese multinational enterprises (MNEs) since they started going global. Our project builds up a theoretical framework of “institutional varieties–logics – work” for analyzing the going-in strategy and performance of Chinese MNEs. We adopt a configurational perspective and view national institutions, organizational logics and institutional work as a set of intertwined elements and structures, with aims to answer three key questions related to the going-in strategy of Chinese MNEs, namely “where do they go in”, “who goes in”, and “how do they go in”. Institutional varieties research addresses the question — “where do they go in” by contrasting complex institutional systems between home and host countries and exploring embeddedness/disembeddedness of MNEs in a specific national institution. Institutional logics research answers the question – “who goes in” by tracking the evolution of institutional logic quantity, content and relationship. Institutional work research tackles the question – “how do they go in” by analyzing how Chinese MNEs shape the institutions, including institutional maintenance, disruption and creation. Methodologically, our project integrates fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) with conventional large-sample statistical analysis and case studies, sets up a contextual analytical framework and performance identification system of the going-in strategy, and proposes the institutional configurations that affect Chinese MNEs’ going-in performance.