Bilateral political tension and the signaling role of patenting in a host country

IF 8.6 1区 管理学 Q1 BUSINESS
Nan Zhou, Jiatao Li, Jue Wang
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Abstract The current increasing volatility in international politics makes it more important to understand how multinational enterprises respond to political tension between host and home countries. This paper explains the impact of macro-level bilateral political tension on micro-level strategy of multinationals in the host country. We developed the idea that patenting may be used to signal a firm’s commitment and contribution to the host country’s economy and development. Data on 437 large multinationals and interviews with senior managers of 20 foreign subsidiaries in China show that patenting local innovation does indeed help an investing firm signal its usefulness to the host country government. It can thus serve as a response to bilateral political tension. The relationship between political tension and local patenting also depends on the relative trade dependence of the home and host countries and on the investing firm’s technology level and its stake in China. The greater the dependence of an MNE and its home country government on the host country, the more likely patenting of local innovations would increase in times of bilateral political tension.
双边政治紧张和东道国专利的信号作用
摘要当前国际政治日益动荡,了解跨国企业如何应对东道国与母国之间的政治紧张关系显得尤为重要。本文解释了宏观层面的双边政治紧张对跨国公司在东道国微观层面战略的影响。我们提出了一个想法,即专利可以用来表明公司对东道国经济和发展的承诺和贡献。437家大型跨国公司的数据以及对20家在华外国子公司高级管理人员的采访表明,为当地创新申请专利确实有助于投资公司向东道国政府表明其有用性。因此,它可以作为对双边政治紧张局势的回应。政治紧张与当地专利之间的关系还取决于母国和东道国的相对贸易依赖程度,以及投资公司的技术水平及其在中国的股份。跨国公司及其母国政府对东道国的依赖程度越高,在双边政治紧张时期,当地创新的专利申请就越有可能增加。
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16.20
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10.30%
发文量
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期刊介绍: The Selection Committee for the JIBS Decade Award is pleased to announce that the 2023 award will be presented to Anthony Goerzen, Christian Geisler Asmussen, and Bo Bernhard Nielsen for their article titled "Global cities and multinational enterprise location strategy," published in JIBS in 2013 (volume 44, issue 5, pages 427-450). The prestigious JIBS Decade Award, sponsored by Palgrave Macmillan, recognizes the most influential paper published in the Journal of International Business Studies from a decade earlier. The award will be presented at the annual AIB conference. To be eligible for the JIBS Decade Award, an article must be one of the top five most cited papers published in JIBS for the respective year. The Selection Committee for this year included Kaz Asakawa, Jeremy Clegg, Catherine Welch, and Rosalie L. Tung, serving as the Committee Chair and JIBS Editor-in-Chief, all from distinguished universities around the world.
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