Authorship：Lead author,　Corresponding author   Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)  

There is the need for comprehensive research on the disruptive effects of COVID-19 on international business (IB) in preparation for future disruption. However, we know little about the causal mechanisms of the phenomenon which impacted IB. Based on a case study of a Japanese automotive firm in Russia, we investigate how firms tackle institutional entrepreneurship with firm-specific advantages to overcome the disruptive effects. Consequently, the pandemic increased institutional costs due to greater uncertainty in Russian regulatory institutions. To manage this, the firm developed new firm-specific advantages to deal with the increasing uncertainty of regulative institutions. The firm united with other firms to motivate public officials to advocate for semi-official debates. Our study contributes to extending intersecting studies on the liability of foreignness and firm-specific advantages through the lens of institutional entrepreneurship. We propose a holistic conceptual process model of the causal mechanisms and a novel construct for new firm-specific advantages.

DOI： 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2023.102142

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Authorship：Lead author,　Corresponding author   Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)  

This study investigates the mechanisms that transform the liability of outsidership into assets of outsidership. Debates on transforming the liability of foreignness into assets of foreignness have been emerging, but transforming the liability of outsidership into assets of outsidership remains unclear. Drawing on organizational learning perspectives, we provide a comparative study of Japanese automotive subsidiaries in Russia. We suggest that advanced economy multinational enterprises in emerging markets benefit from local networks with a local partner but not from non-experience-based firm-specific advantages. Our study contributes to current debates in the literature by presenting the novel concept of ‘assets of outsidership’ and discussing the mechanisms of this transformation.

DOI： 10.1080/13602381.2022.2079280

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Authorship：Lead author,　Corresponding author   Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Saint Petersburg State University  

The concepts of liability of foreignness and liability of outsidership have been central in international business research. The Uppsala model explains that firms often face obstacles and opportunities in management practices in a host market when internationalizing abroad. International business scholars discussed these concepts redundantly but vaguely in the literature. Only a few literature sources defined and utilized the concepts clearly over the last decade, however, it has not been demonstrated how the key constructs help to explain firms’ foreign subsidiary management. Therefore, the study reconsiders the concepts and identifies a proper utilization of the concepts in the texts drawing on an intensive systematic literature review in the leading international business and strategy journals from 2011 to 2021. The study also analyzes the articles in which the authors find ambiguous and overlapping use of the concepts by clarifying key constructs as identifiers. The study integrates defensive and offensive options for overcoming liability of foreignness and liability of outsidership into our conceptual model of operational structures from the foreign subsidiary management perspectives. The study contributes by providing a novel intensive literature review of the concepts over the last decade; by clarifying the key identifiers to distinguish the concepts in the leading international business and strategy journals; by proposing newly integrated conceptual models of defensive and offensive options from foreign subsidiary management perspectives with the focus on intra-organizational structures for operational aspects.

DOI： 10.21638/11701/spbu08.2022.102

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