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Liability of Emergingness of Emerging Market Multinationals in Developed Markets: A Conceptual Approach

In: Experiences of Emerging Economy Firms

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  • Katrin Held
  • Nicola Berg

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In foreign markets, multinational enterprises (MNEs) need to manage in host countries applying the given rules of the game (North, 1990). While some foreign companies successfully manage a new institutional environment, others are not able to gain legitimacy and have difficulties in overcoming their liability of foreignness (LOF). LOF can arise from different sources, such as geographic distance between home and host countries, the foreign company’s unfamiliarity with the host-country specifics or unfavorable treatments of host-country nationals (Hymer, 1976; Zaheer, 1995). It weakens a company’s competitive advantage in foreign markets and consequently needs to be mitigated (Luo and Mezias, 2002; Luo, Shenkar and Nyaw, 2002; Suchman, 1995).

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  • Katrin Held & Nicola Berg, 2015. "Liability of Emergingness of Emerging Market Multinationals in Developed Markets: A Conceptual Approach," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Marin Marinov (ed.), Experiences of Emerging Economy Firms, chapter 2, pages 6-31, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-47228-1_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137472281_2
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