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    Multidexterity: Combining competing business models in transforming economies

    PublicationArticle (with peer review)
    Duncan Angwin, Robert Demir

    Abstract

    Transforming economies pose significant challenges to multinational corporations’ (MNCs) business models (e.g., Chan et al., 2016; Sánchez & Ricart, 2010). This is because they are characterized by uncertain, highly volatile, and changing institutional frameworks (Peng, Wang, & Jiang, 2008). For instance, China is distinguished by weaker regulatory regimes and industry standards (Tan, 2009; Tsai & Child, 1997). So, whilst business models contribute to rapid internationalization (Dunford, Palmer, & Benveniste, 2010) and local competition in transforming economies (Tallman, Luo, & Buckley, 2018), entering those economies incurs institutional and market challenges. These fundamentally threaten MNCs’ business model viability (Birkinshaw, Zimmermann, & Raisch, 2016b).

    Demir, R. & Angwin, D. (2021). Multidexterity: Combining competing business models in transforming economies. Management and Organization Review, 1-32. doi:10.1017/mor.2020.56

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    Demir, R. & Angwin, D.

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    2021

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    Management and Organization Review

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