Title: International entrepreneurship and information technology strategies of the multinational enterprises from emerging markets

Authors: OhSuk Yang; Ryosuke Sugie

Addresses: Department of International Trade and Business, Kangwon National University, 1 Kangwondaehak-gil, Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do, 200-701, Republic of Korea ' Technological Development of Information Processing, Sumitomo Fudosan Shinjuku Oak Tower 8-1, Nishi Shinjuku 6, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 163-6011, Japan

Abstract: Traditional foreign direct investment (FDI) theories fail to provide a theoretical framework for international entrepreneurship (IE) and internationalisation strategies (IS) of multinational enterprises from emerging markets (EM MNEs) that strive to acquire competitive advantages through dynamic international expansion. EM MNEs share certain features of IS in common: springboard, dynamic internalisation, technological catch-up, and knowledge exploration. Furthermore, innovation for creating new products and production methods led by contemporary EM MNEs was and is the outcome of their pursuit of externally oriented and knowledge-seeking, dynamic opportunity-seeking, and agile mimic IE.

Keywords: emerging markets; MNEs; international entrepreneurship; internationalisation strategies; springboard; dynamic internalisation; technological catch-up; dynamic influence cycle; DIC; information technology; IT strategies; multinational enterprises; innovation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2015.068482

International Journal of Business Information Systems, 2015 Vol.18 No.4, pp.469 - 489

Published online: 22 Apr 2015 *

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