Special Issue on CMNE Published in MOR!

MOR特刊出版｜如何理解当代中国跨国公司（CMNEs）？

Dear colleagues,

It is with great excitement that we publish this Special Issue on ‘Understanding Contemporary Chinese Multinational Enterprises (CMNEs)’. Situating the CMNEs’ growth and global expansion in the business environment of the mid-2020s against the backdrop of the surge of technological innovation, intense geopolitical tension, and trade wars this special issue discuss the growth of CMNEs to derive implications for international business (IB) theory. In the introductory piece, the guest editors review key theoretical perspectives that inform prior research on CMNEs and outline the key challenges confronting CMNEs’ international expansion, as gauged against prior research.

I would like to thank the guest editors –Fang Lee Cooke, Maoliang Bu, Byung Il Park, Jeoung Yul Lee, and Andrew Delios – for their dedication to the special issue. They have made tremendous efforts to ensure the quality of the special issue. They identify emerging business models that are distinctive to CMNEs, which have notable implications for theory development. They also summarize the major findings that emerged from the eight articles included in the special issue and discuss how these findings may help us derive implications for international business (IB) theory in general.

Xiao-Ping Chen
Editor-in-Chief, MOR

Special Issue on ‘Understanding Contemporary Chinese MNEs’
Letter from the Editor

Introductory Paper

Fang Lee Cooke, Maoliang Bu, Byung Il Park, Jeoung Yul Lee, and Andrew Delios
Chinese Multinational Enterprises in a New Reality: Advancing International Business Theory

Articles

Xinya Guan, Junying Liu, Michael N. Young, and Hongjuan Zhang (29pp)
Trying to Please Multiplayer Bosses: How the Subsidiaries of Chinese Multinationals Sell OFDI Initiatives to Their Headquarters

Huan Zou, Pervez Ghauri, and Minxia Song (28pp)
Stakeholder Management by Emerging Market Hybrid State-Owned Enterprises: A Biomimicry Perspective

Ruey-Jer ‘Bryan’ Jean, Daekwan Kim, S. Tamer Cavusgil, and Chialin Chen (21pp)
Determinants of Chinese Exporters’ Online De-Internationalization

Yan Emma Liu, Zetao Zhu, Yingqi Wei, and Lichao Wu (22pp)
A Double-Edged Sword: The Two Faces of Political Connections in International Investments of Chinese Firms

Yuanyuan Li (28pp)
Revisiting the Springboard Perspective: Market-seeking Internationalization, Dynamic Capabilities, and Digital Transformation of Emerging Market Firms

Won-Yong Oh, Rong (Ratchel) Zeng, and Chang Hoon Oh (30pp)
Revisiting the Springboard Perspective: Market-seeking Internationalization, Dynamic Capabilities, and Digital Transformation of Emerging Market Firms

Lin Cui, Yong Kyu Lew, Zaheer Khan, and Jiangyong Lu (29pp)
International Entrepreneurial Spin-Offs: An Ambidextrous Approach to Internationalization

Mengmeng Wang and Shufeng Xiao (25pp)
Motivating Foreign Subsidiaries of MNEs to Engage in CSP: An Integrative Approach