Time:11月04日(周四), 10:00-11:30am

Seminar room：216 New Guanghua Building

Speaker:Prof. Dean Xu (许德音), CEIBS

TITLE:Moderating Influences on Density and Exit: Foreign Firms in China

Abstract:

We examine the relationship between foreign firm density and the exit rate of foreign firms, and the moderating influences on such a relationship,using annual census data on foreign firms in China during 1998-2007. We find that the exit rate of foreign firms has a U-shaped relationship with foreign firm density in a provincial market. Furthermore, this relationship is moderated by the density of foreign firms from the focal firm’s home country, the density of foreign firms in the focal firm’s industry, the age and size of the focal firm, joint venture entry mode, and affiliation to the local government as opposed to higher levels of governmental affiliation. All these moderating effects support a complementary, as opposed to substitutive, relationship among a firm’s various sources of legitimation for overcoming its liability of foreignness in the China market.