The persistence of distance? The impact of technology on MNE motivations for foreign investment

By Lilach Nachum, Srilata Zaheer. 2005

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Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

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Reshoring and insourcing: drivers and future research directions (2016, background): “Intangible resources such as skills and knowledge affect the strength of firms’ commitments to offshoring and outsourcing decisions (Nachum and Zaheer, 2005; Ellram et al., 2013).”
Added Psychic Distance Stimuli and MNE Performance: Performance Effects of Added Cultural, Governance, Geographic, and Economic Distance in MNEs' International Expansion (2014, positive): “Thus, significant developments in transportation and communication technologies have helped – and will help in the future – to reduce the costs associated with geographic distance (Hummels, 2007; Nachum and Zaheer, 2005).”
International Diversification: Antecedents, Outcomes, and Moderators (2006, neutral): “Nachum and Zaheer (2005) labeled these two motivations as market seeking and efficiency seeking, respectively, and added resource seeking, export seeking, and knowledge seeking as additional motives, each of which value different resource endowments in the host country.”
Globalization and location choice: an analysis of US multinational firms in 1980 and 2000 (2007, background): “…determinants of the foreign location choices firmlevel characteristics, such as size, performance and industry (Horst, 1972; Terpstra and Yu, 1988; Nachum and Zaheer, 2005), firm relational linkages (Chen and Chen, 1998), as well as country level, home (Henisz and Delios, 2001; Harzing and Sorge,…”
Firm Internationalization and Corporate Social Responsibility (2014, neutral): “This result is consistent with Strike et al. (2006) and Kang (2013), and suggests that CSR activities can help firms mitigate market imperfections and asymmetric information problems as well as manage complexities stemming from an expanded set of stakeholders.”
The diffusion of foreign divestment from Burma (2014, background): “For research on the reasons for foreign direct investment, see Knickerbocker (1974) and Nachum and Zaheer (2005). the firms’ international operations (Benito, 1997; Berry, 2013; Lee and Caves, 1998; Li, 1995; Mariotti and Piscitello, 1999; Mata and Portugal, 2000).8 Based on this literature, the…”
The rise of the entrepreneurial economy and the future of dynamic capitalism (2013, background): “Cost reductions, the availability and quality of input factors and growth potential are among the most important drivers of offshoring (Nachum and Zaheer, 2005).”
Global cities and multinational enterprise location strategy (2013, background): “Thus an MNE’s attraction to global cities may be contingent on its investment motivation (Nachum & Zaheer, 2005), where, in the terminology of Dunning (1993), MNEs that are “market seeking” will be more likely to locate in global cities, whereas the other investment motives (i.e., strategic asset…”
Governance Decisions in the R&D Process: An Integrative Framework Based on TCT and Know-ledge View of The Firm. (2007, background): “As different motivations for going abroad require different strategies, the governance form preferred for a R&D service may vary depending on the firm’s motivation to locate it in a particular location (Nachum and Zaheer, 2005).”
Offshoring and backshoring: A multiple case study analysis (2017, neutral): “…and Merino (2014) Milberg and Winkler (2010) Mohiuddin and Su (2013) x x x x Mudambi and Venzin (2010) x Mykhaylenko et al. (2015) x x x Nachum and Zaheer (2005) x x Nassimbeni and Sartor (2007) x x Nassimbeni (2006) x x Overby and Servais (2005) x Persaud and Floyd (2013) x x…”
Contextualization and the advancement of entrepreneurship research (2014, background): “Others have been more cautious, positing that physical distance still matters in indirect but important ways (Nachum and Zaheer, 2005).”