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1、THEDYNAMISMOFINTERNATIONALMARKETENTRYANDDEVELOPMENT:THECONTRIBUTIONOFPATHDEPENDENCYTHEORYAndreasKlossek*PhDcandidateDept.ofEconomicsandBusinessAdministrationFreibergUniversityofTechnologyandMiningD-09596Freiberg,GermanyTel:+49(0)3731/39-2119,Fax:+49(0)3731/39-3313email:klossek@bwl.tu-freiberg
2、.deMichaelNippaProfessorofManagement,Leadership,andHumanResourcesDept.ofEconomicsandBusinessAdministrationFreibergUniversityofTechnologyandMiningD-09596Freiberg,GermanyTel:+49(0)3731/39-2081,Fax:+49(0)3731/39-3313email:nippa@bwl.tu-freiberg.de/mnippa@marshall.usc.edu*correspondingauthorAcknow
3、ledgements:WewouldliketothankAndreasEhrhardt,R.MichaelHolmes,Jr.,BjörnRosenberger,andDanielTüxforprovidingvaluablecommentsandsuggestionsonearlierdraftsofthismanuscript.AnearlierversionofthispaperwaspresentedtoparticipantsattheInternationalConferenceonEconomicsandManagementofNetworksinBudapest
4、2005andatthe3rdAnnualJIBS/AIB/CIBER/ERIMInvitationalConferenceonEmergingResearchFrontiersinInternationalBusinessinRotterdam2005.53THEDYNAMISMOFINTERNATIONALMARKETENTRYANDDEVELOPMENT:THECONTRIBUTIONOFPATHDEPENDENCYTHEORYABSTRACTRecognizingthescarcityoftheapplicationofpathdependencytheoryininte
5、rnatonalbusiness(BuckleyandGlaister,2002;Eriksson,MajkgårdandSharma,2000;Guisinger,BrewerandYoung,2003),thispaperwilladdressthedeficiencybyintegratingapath-dependentviewintowell-knownandwidelyappliedorganizationaltheoriesininternationalbusinessresearch.Specifically,ourresearchdrewonresource-a
6、ndcapabilities-based,organizationallearningandsocialexchangeaswellasnetworktheoreticexplanationsofMNEinternationalinvestmentactivitythroughinternationaljointventures.Asaresult,wehavegeneratedconceptualpropositionsandoutlinedpossibledirectionsforfutureresearch.Keywords:PathDependencyTheory,Int
7、ernationalJointVentures,ForeignDirectInvestment53Themotivestoforminternationaljointventures(IJVs)aremanifold.Forinstance,theyoffermultinationalenterprises(MNEs)theopportunitytodrawuponknowledgeandcapabilitesfromlocalpartners.Moreover,partners