Effects of past experience, learning capabilities and overall motivation

Time: 4.00pm-6.00pm

Place: Management School Lecture Theatre 3, Lancaster, LA1 4YX, UK

The Advanced Institute of Management Research invites Professor Marjorie A. Lyles, OneAmerica Chair in Business Administration, Indiana University to speak on:

The Performance of Chinese Outward FDI: Effects of past experience, learning capabilities and overall motivation.

This is the next Lancaster China Management Centre Seminar. All are very welcome. No registration required.

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Please see further details below:

The Performance of Chinese Outward FDI: Effects of past experience, learning capabilities and overall motivation
(Authors: Marjorie Lyles, Dan Li (lid@indiana.edu), and Haifeng Yan (haifengy@163.com)

Existing models of internationalization do not fully explain the international venturing of emerging economy private ventures (Oviatt & McDougall, 1994; Zahra, 2003).
Using survey data of midsized private Chinese firms that have outward foreign direct investments (OFDI), this paper examines how international experiences, learning capabilities and overall motivations influence the OFDI performance.

We hypothesize that each variable will positively affect the OFDI. We find that neither the founder's nor the firm's prior international experience has a direct impact on performance. While a direct effect of the potential absorptive capacity on performance is observed originally, we find that learning outcomes fully mediate the relationship. The firm's overall motivation has a direct effect on performance and it is partially mediated by learning outcomes from its host country.

Marjorie Lyles is Professor of International Strategic Management at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and holds the OneAmerica Chair in Business Administration. She was founding Director of the Indiana University Center on Southeast Asia. She is a member of the Strategic Management Society, Academy of Management, Academy of International Business, and the American Management Association's International Council. She was an Invited Scholar and consultant for the U.S. Department of Commerce in the Peoples' Republic of China. She was the Arthur Andersen Distinguished Visiting Professor at Cambridge University).

Her writings center on organizational learning, international strategies and cooperative alliances, and technology development particularly in emerging economies. She studies the performance of foreign direct investment projects and the utilization of joint ventures as a form of business development and entrepreneurship in transitional and evolving economies.
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If you have any queries regarding this event please contact Agi Witaszczyk on 020 7862 8519 or agnieszka.witaszczyk@wbs.ac.uk