Internationalization and performance of Vietnamese manufacturing firms: Does organizational slack matter?

Artikel

This paper aims to investigate the three-stage theory of international expansion in the long run from the perspective of firm behavior. Although this topic has been mostly explored using data from developed countries, this paper aims to fill the research gap in an emerging market by using an extensive unbalanced panel data of 12,704 unlisted Vietnam manufacturing enterprises from the General Statistics Office during 2007 to 2012. The findings illustrated a significant S-shaped relationship between internationalization and performance. Notably, the results depict significantly moderating effects of both high-discretion slacks and low-discretion slacks on the internationalization-performance relationship across three stages of global expansion as an enterprise enhances this relationship in the first and third stage although this worsens it in the middle stage. The empirical results suggest that firms should determine the optimum level of internationalization and slacks in addition to balancing their costs with their real gains.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Administrative Sciences ; ISSN: 2076-3387 ; Volume: 8 ; Year: 2018 ; Issue: 4 ; Pages: 1-15 ; Basel: MDPI

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Öffentliche Verwaltung
• Subject: internationalization ; organizational slack ; firm performance

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Huynh, Hien Thi Ngoc ; Nguyen, Phuong V. ; Tran, Khoa T.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): MDPI
• (where): Basel
• (when): 2018

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.3390/admsci8040064
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/239880
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET