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Resource, Strategies, Location Determinants, And Host Country Location Choice By Emerging Market Firms
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
  • Naveen K Jain, Florida International University
Document Type
Dissertation
Major/Program
Business Administration
First Advisor's Name
Sumit Kundu
First Advisor's Committee Title
Committee Chair
Second Advisor's Name
Juan Sanchez
Third Advisor's Name
William Newburry
Fourth Advisor's Name
Kaushik Dutta
Fifth Advisor's Name
Torben Pedersen
Keywords
  • Location Determinants,
  • Emerging Market Firms,
  • Location Choice,
  • Resources,
  • Strategies,
  • Multilevel Analysis
Date of Defense
12-9-2009
Abstract

The extant literature had studied the determinants of the firms’ location decisions with help of host country characteristics and distances between home and host countries. Firm resources and its internationalization strategies had found limited attention in this literature. To address this gap, the research question in this dissertation was whether and how firms’ resources and internationalization strategies impacted the international location decisions of emerging market firms. To explore the research question, data were hand-collected from Indian software firms on their location decisions taken between April 2000 and March 2009. To analyze the multi-level longitudinal dataset, hierarchical linear modeling was used. The results showed that the internationalization strategies, namely market-seeking or labor-seeking had direct impact on firms’ location decision. This direct relationship was moderated by firm resource which, in case of Indian software firms, was the appraisal at CMMI level-5. Indian software firms located in developed countries with a market-seeking strategy and in emerging markets with a labor-seeking strategy. However, software firms with resource such as CMMI level-5 appraisal, when in a labor-seeking mode, were more likely to locate in a developed country over emerging market than firms without the appraisal. Software firms with CMMI level-5 appraisal, when in market-seeking mode, were more likely to locate in a developed country over an emerging market than firms without the appraisal. It was concluded that the internationalization strategies and resources of companies predicted their location choices, over and above the variables studied in the theoretical field of location determinants.

Identifier
FI10041615
Citation Information
Naveen K Jain. "Resource, Strategies, Location Determinants, And Host Country Location Choice By Emerging Market Firms" (2009)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/naveen_jain/6/