On the growth of foreign affiliates: multinational plant networks, joint ventures, and flexibility

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Flexibility versus commitment: MNEs’ ownership strategy in China (2010, unknown): “We include an industry-level control variable called labor cost growth following Belderbos and Zou (2007).”
Foreignness and exit over the life cycle of firms (2012, background): “Indeed, multinationals have been observed to maintain duplicate production structures (Zander, 1998) and to shift production from one country to another as a consequence of unfavorable evolution of labor costs in the former (Belderbos & Zou, 2007).”
The role of path dependency and managerial intentionality: a perspective on international business research (2007, background): “Also, Belderbos and Zou (2007) stress the importance of managerial decisions for the path of further internationalization, particularly with regard to the accumulation of flexibility that comes with future opportunities in changing environments.”
Subsidiary expansion/contraction during times of economic crisis (2010, methodology): “Following the example of Belderbos and Zou (2009), we calculated annual correlations of monthly real exchange rates between a subsidiary’s host country and other countries with subsidiaries from the same parent firm in a given year.”