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0000-0001-7697-204X
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Universidade Anhembi Morumbi
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Fundação Getulio Vargas
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Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2019
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 2017
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 07-01-2022
Abstract: The aim of this study is to propose a link between international business (IB) and economic geography, which are two streams of thought that have developed without one acknowledging the other. We use the Uppsala model and the Global Production Network as pillars to sustain this link. We expect that this research triggers a collaboration with allied social sciences in important debates surrounding the business-societal interface. We selected papers produced by Johanson and Vahlne to understand the development of the Uppsala model over 40 years. The same was done with the Global Production Network, where we scrutinized the work of Henderson, Coe, Dicken, Hess and Yeung – scholars from the Manchester School of Geography – in the last twenty years. Based on Humphrey et al. (2019), we applied an inductive and inferential approach to uncover similarities and differences between the Uppsala model and Global Production Network. The Uppsala model reinforces the strategic role of network position in the internationalization process, while the Global Production Network aims to explain how the governance of global firms scattered world-wide affects the development and upgrading opportunities of the various regions and firms involved. Despite these clear differences, the geographical nature of IB and shared similarities accounting the network as a channel to foster and provide access to important resources and practices regarding management, coordination and governance of dispersed parts of multinational enterprises give room to using these two theories as pillars to link IB and economic geography. While attempts to link IB and economic geography are not new, none of these studies have focused on the Uppsala model and Global Production Network as pillars to create a link. We foresee an intense cross collaboration and an even possible renaissance of IB and economic geography to target the ever-changing business environment and its impact on social and economic development.
Publisher: Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM)
Date: 31-08-2017
DOI: 10.18568/1980-4865.13230-42
Abstract: The Uppsala model is the result of an intellectual journey where economic-type assumptions were purged and replaced by behavioural, network relationship, dynamic capabilities, effectuation, entrepreneurship and institutional theories, theories which seemed to explain better, the internationalization process in the current business environment. This conceptual paper illustrates how the Uppsala model evolved showing adaptions it went through and discuss whether the Uppsala model is contingent enough to explain the rise of EMNEs, a phenomenon that at first, puzzled international business scholars and questioned the validity of well-established stream of thoughts in the international business community.
Location: Brazil
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