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New challenges and opportunities in the global marketplace: learning from developed-country multinationals’ failures

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  • Joseph Amankwah-Amoah
  • Ellis L. C. Osabutey

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In this article, we integrate the attention-based view of the firm and the organizational ambidexterity literature to develop a perspective on the effects of unbalanced attention to both domestic and foreign expansion. We utilize the case of British supermarket Tesco’s expansions in the UK and USA to demonstrate divestment as an unintended outcome of unbalanced attention to both domestic and foreign markets. We demonstrate how emerging-market multinationals could learn from historical international expansion strategic failures by developed-country multinationals.

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  • Joseph Amankwah-Amoah & Ellis L. C. Osabutey, 2020. "New challenges and opportunities in the global marketplace: learning from developed-country multinationals’ failures," International Studies of Management & Organization, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 50(1), pages 43-56, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:mimoxx:v:50:y:2020:i:1:p:43-56
    DOI: 10.1080/00208825.2019.1703377
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    1. Roth, Linus & Corsi, Simone, 2023. "Ambidexterity in a geographic context: A systematic literature review on international exploration and exploitation of knowledge," Technovation, Elsevier, vol. 124(C).

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