The impact of global city location intensity on MNE performance: Leveraging learning and connectivity

IF 7.4 2区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

Long Range Planning Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI:10.1016/j.lrp.2023.102409

Helen S. Du, Ana Colovic

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Abstract

Building on recent international business research that embraces insights from economic geography, we hypothesise that MNEs locating a high share of the total number of their subsidiaries in global cities (which we conceptualize as global city location intensity) exhibit higher financial performance. We further argue that knowledge-intensive firms benefit more from global city location intensity than less knowledge-intensive firms. We also posit that multinationality (international geographic dispersion) negatively moderates the relationship between global city location intensity and financial performance. We test our hypotheses on a sample of 497 MNEs and find strong support for our predictions. We contribute to the literature by introducing the notion of intensity into the relationship between global city locations and financial performance and call for considering scale effects when examining locational decisions and their consequences.

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全球城市区位密集度对跨国企业绩效的影响：利用学习和连通性

基于最近包含经济地理学见解的国际商业研究，我们假设在全球城市(我们将其概念定义为全球城市区位强度)中设立子公司总数的很大一部分的跨国公司表现出更高的财务绩效。我们进一步论证了知识密集型企业比低知识密集型企业从全球城市区位密集度中获益更多。我们还假设多国性(国际地理分散)负向调节全球城市区位强度与财务绩效之间的关系。我们在497家跨国公司的样本上测试了我们的假设，并为我们的预测找到了强有力的支持。我们通过将强度概念引入全球城市位置与财务绩效之间的关系，并呼吁在检查位置决策及其后果时考虑规模效应，从而为文献做出贡献。

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Long Range Planning Multiple-

CiteScore

13.00

自引率

7.10%

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