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Titel
Organizational slack as an enabler of internationalization: The case of large Brazilian firms
Ist Teil von
  • International business review, 2018-10, Vol.27 (5), p.1057-1064
Ort / Verlag
Elsevier Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
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Quelle
Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete
Beschreibungen/Notizen
  • •The study informs the literature on the drivers to internationalization of the Latin American MNEs, the so-called ‘Multilatinas’.•Drawing from the organizational slack theory, we find that acts as an enabler of the internationalization process.•Our study unveils a convincing link between financial, operational and managerial slack and changes in domestic market conditions.•We reveal that a “critical incidence” in the home market is required to trigger the use of the slack resources for intense international forays. In this paper, we address an empirical puzzle. We note that a deliberate and serious drive to internationalize has occurred rather late in the evolution of large Brazilian firms. Meanwhile, and despite their late internationalization, these Brazilian firms expanded rapidly and intently. Despite the rich literature on Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises (EMNEs), there is still much contention on what drives rapid EMNE internationalization, particularly for the less explored firms from Latin America. Using an inductive case study of five leading Brazilian MNEs, we bring new insights on this neglected question. We unveil that the existence of organizational slack (of operational, managerial, and financial nature) can indeed facilitate rapid internationalization, particularly when triggered by unique home country conditions (e.g., regulation; rising cost of doing business at home; exhaustion of profitable growth opportunities in the domestic market).
Sprache
Englisch
Identifikatoren
ISSN: 0969-5931
eISSN: 1873-6149
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2018.03.006
Titel-ID: cdi_crossref_primary_10_1016_j_ibusrev_2018_03_006

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