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Professor Dylan Sutherland's Outputs (59)

Inward FDI spillovers and innovation capabilities in Chinese business: exploring the moderating role of local industrial externalities (2016)
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Li, J., Sutherland, D., & Ning, L. (2016). Inward FDI spillovers and innovation capabilities in Chinese business: exploring the moderating role of local industrial externalities. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 29(8), 932-945. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2016.1259472

It is generally believed foreign direct investment (FDI) has spillover effects which can affect the innovation capabilities of local firms in host countries. Comparatively little, however, is known about the contingent local contextual factors that i... Read More about Inward FDI spillovers and innovation capabilities in Chinese business: exploring the moderating role of local industrial externalities.

Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Innovation Performance: Evidence from China (2016)
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Li, J., Strange, R., Ning, L., & Sutherland, D. (2016). Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Innovation Performance: Evidence from China. International Business Review, 25(5), 1010-1019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2016.01.008

Recent years have witnessed substantial outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) from many emerging economies. Should the governments of these economies encourage OFDI in order to promote domestic innovation? Much OFDI by emerging economy multination... Read More about Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Innovation Performance: Evidence from China.

Entry mode and emerging market MNES : an analysis of Chinese Greenfield and acquisition FDI in the United States (2015)
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Anderson, J., & Sutherland, D. (2015). Entry mode and emerging market MNES : an analysis of Chinese Greenfield and acquisition FDI in the United States. Research in International Business and Finance, 25, 88-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2015.03.008

A growing theoretical literature on emerging market MNEs argues they use aggressive acquisitions, often to psychically distant, developed host countries, to obtain the strategic assets. The use of acquisitions as the dominant entry mode for strategic... Read More about Entry mode and emerging market MNES : an analysis of Chinese Greenfield and acquisition FDI in the United States.

Internationalization within networks: Exploring the relationship between inward and outward FDI in China’s auto components industry (2015)
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Hertenstein, P., Sutherland, D., & Anderson, J. (2017). Internationalization within networks: Exploring the relationship between inward and outward FDI in China’s auto components industry. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 34(1), 69-96. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-015-9422-3

We explore how the outward FDI strategies of Chinese auto component multinational corporations (MNCs) are shaped by sub-contracting supply relationships established with developed market MNCs. We argue the strong presence of foreign MNC business netw... Read More about Internationalization within networks: Exploring the relationship between inward and outward FDI in China’s auto components industry.

The evolving nature of China's regional innovation systems: Insights from an exploration–exploitation approach (2015)
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Wang, Y., Sutherland, D., Ning, L., & Pan, X. (2015). The evolving nature of China's regional innovation systems: Insights from an exploration–exploitation approach. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 100, 140-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2015.07.010

The regional innovation systems (RISs) approach has become influential in analysis of innovation processes and the development of public policy. Much of the contemporary RIS literature, however, has adopted a structural, functional, effectiveness or... Read More about The evolving nature of China's regional innovation systems: Insights from an exploration–exploitation approach.

Developed Economy Investment Promotion Agencies and Emerging Market Foreign Direct Investment: The Case of Chinese FDI in Canada (2015)
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Anderson, J., & Sutherland, D. (2015). Developed Economy Investment Promotion Agencies and Emerging Market Foreign Direct Investment: The Case of Chinese FDI in Canada. Journal of World Business, 50(4), 815-825. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2015.04.005

In light of the perceived benefits derived from inward FDI, many developed economies have systematically established investment promotion agencies (IPAs) to attract foreign investment. While IPAs in the past have been created by a wide variety of cou... Read More about Developed Economy Investment Promotion Agencies and Emerging Market Foreign Direct Investment: The Case of Chinese FDI in Canada.

An event study of home and host country patent generation in Chinese MNEs undertaking strategic asset acquisitions in developed markets (2015)
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Anderson, J., Sutherland, D., & Severe, S. (2015). An event study of home and host country patent generation in Chinese MNEs undertaking strategic asset acquisitions in developed markets. International Business Review, 24(5), 758-771. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2015.01.007

We use event study methodologies to analyze trends in home and host country patent applications of Chinese MNEs that acquire strategic asset-rich developed market businesses. Our results show the domestic market patents of Chinese MNEs rise significa... Read More about An event study of home and host country patent generation in Chinese MNEs undertaking strategic asset acquisitions in developed markets.

External heterogeneity and its impact on open innovation performance (2015)
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Huang, S., Chen, J., Wang, Y., Ning, L., Sutherland, D., Zhou, Z., & Zhou, Y. (2015). External heterogeneity and its impact on open innovation performance. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 27(2), 182-197. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2014.957664

While current research commonly finds there may be an optimum overall level of search depth commitment at the apex of an inverted U relationship, it says comparatively little about the optimal allocation of search depth between competing search chann... Read More about External heterogeneity and its impact on open innovation performance.

A Dynamic Comparative Analysis of International Innovation Networks in Emerging Market MNCs (2014)
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Wang, Y., Sutherland, D., & Ning, L. (2014). A Dynamic Comparative Analysis of International Innovation Networks in Emerging Market MNCs. Industry and Innovation, 21(6), 457-475. https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2014.983749

This paper compares the international innovation strategies of emerging market MNCs (EMNCs) with those of developed country MNCs (DMNCs). More specifically, we analyze the patent outcomes related to the use of international innovation networks (IINs)... Read More about A Dynamic Comparative Analysis of International Innovation Networks in Emerging Market MNCs.

The pitfalls of using foreign direct investment data to measure Chinese multinational enterprise activity (2014)
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Sutherland, D., & Anderson, J. (2015). The pitfalls of using foreign direct investment data to measure Chinese multinational enterprise activity. China Quarterly, 221, 21-48. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741014001490

The growth of Chinese multinational enterprises (MNE) has stimulated great interest in their outward foreign direct investment (FDI) strategies, particularly among academics in business and management studies. To date, however, serious methodological... Read More about The pitfalls of using foreign direct investment data to measure Chinese multinational enterprise activity.

Firm ownership, industrial structure, and regional innovation performance in China's provinces (2014)
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Li, J., Sutherland, D., Ning, L., & Wang, Y. (2014). Firm ownership, industrial structure, and regional innovation performance in China's provinces. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 26(9), 1001-1022. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2014.943714

This paper uses panel data between 2000 and 2010 to explore how firm ownership and regional industrial structures contribute to regional innovation performance in Chinese provinces. Specifically, we explore how the extent of specialisation and divers... Read More about Firm ownership, industrial structure, and regional innovation performance in China's provinces.

The economic geography of offshore incorporation in tax havens and offshore financial centres: the case of Chinese MNEs (2013)
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Buckley, P., Sutherland, D., Voss, H., & El-Gohari, A. (2015). The economic geography of offshore incorporation in tax havens and offshore financial centres: the case of Chinese MNEs. Journal of Economic Geography, 15(1), 103-128. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbt040

A large share of the outward foreign direct investment (FDI) of emerging market MNEs is directed towards a small number of specific tax havens and offshore financial centres. The establishment of investment-holding companies for taxation related purp... Read More about The economic geography of offshore incorporation in tax havens and offshore financial centres: the case of Chinese MNEs.

Productivity performance in Chinese business groups: the positive and negative impacts of business group affiliation (2011)
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Sutherland, D., Ning, L., & Beatson, S. (2011). Productivity performance in Chinese business groups: the positive and negative impacts of business group affiliation. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 9(2), 163-180. https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2011.568685

This paper considers evidence on business group productivity performance in China. It also carries out a detailed investigation into China's 50 largest groups to see if pyramidal groups are forming. As such, we further explore what can be considered... Read More about Productivity performance in Chinese business groups: the positive and negative impacts of business group affiliation.

Income Inequality in China Over 30 Years of Reforms (2011)
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Sutherland, D., & Yao, S. (2011). Income Inequality in China Over 30 Years of Reforms. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 4(1), 91-105. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsq036

Rapid and sustained economic growth has transformed China from a centrally planned low-income country to a middle-income market economy in just three decades. It is also well known that income inequality has increased substantially. The exact extent... Read More about Income Inequality in China Over 30 Years of Reforms.