[管理高等研究院学术讲座]

Business Groups: A Research Stream on Macro Context and Affiliate Behaviors

Guest Speaker: Prof. Lin Cui (Australian National University)

Time/Date: 13:00 pm Tue. 23 March 2021 (Beijing Time)

Meeting ID: 644 128 10485

Password: 243497

Click Link:  https://zoom.com.cn/j/64412810485

ABSTRACT

Business group (BG) as a prevalent intermediate organizational structure. Research seeks to understand why BGs exist and how they behave. In this talk, I share two studies attempting to contribute novel insights into this literature. In the first study (published in JIBS 2019), we examine the internal resource allocation mechanisms of BGs operating under different state capitalism systems. Contrasting the types of state capitalism in China and India, we find that the effect of BG affiliation on firms’ superior performance persistence is stronger in a state-led system of state capitalism (e.g., China) than in a co-governed system (e.g., India) and that this divergence of the BG effect is weakened as affiliated firms internationalize. In the second study (work in progress), we argue that firms affiliated with BGs respond to internal comparison with group peers. We hypothesize that, on average, affiliated firms are more responsive to internal than external social comparison, and that the internal comparison effect is contingent on group and environmental factors which alter the expectancy and valence of internal market benefits. We test these hypotheses with data from a panel of 2610 BG affiliated firms in China during the period 2005-2012 and find broad supports.

GUEST BIO

Lin Cui is Professor of International business in the Research School of Management at The Australian National University. His research is in the field of International business strategies, innovation and entrepreneurship, with an empirical focus on multinational and state-owned enterprises originating in China, as well as foreign firms entering and operating in the Chinese market. His research is of high international standing. In the research stream on emerging economy multinationals, he is ranked 13th in the world on author impact. He is ranked 2nd worldwide on individual contribution to the study of Chinese multinational enterprises. He has extensive and on-going scholarly collaboration in China. He has received multiple competitive research grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Social Science Foundation of China, for his research on Chinese outward foreign direct investment. He is also senior editor of Management and Organization Review, which is a high impact and China focused business research outlet. He has executive teaching experience in China and has industrial linkages with China-based business consulting firms and think tanks.