Reconciling the advantages and liabilities of foreignness: Towards an identity-based framework

• Autores: Jesper Edman
• Localización: Journal of International Business Studies, ISSN-e 1478-6990, Vol. 47, Nº. 6, 2016, págs. 674-694
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article leverages identity theory to address the question of when and how foreignness acts as an advantage and liability for the MNE subsidiary. Applying an organizational identity lens, I delineate how subsidiaries manage their foreignness by accentuating and attenuating internal and external organizational attributes. Drawing on this conceptualization, I theorize how an accentuated foreign identity moderates context-specific advantages and liabilities. In offering a more nuanced understanding of how subsidiaries actively manage their foreignness, and its contextual implications, an identity-based framework helps to both explain and reconcile the advantages and liabilities of foreignness.