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US pharmaceutical firms’ international redeployment strategies, entry modes, and performance outcomes

Xu, Mingrui

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Title
US pharmaceutical firms’ international redeployment strategies, entry modes, and performance outcomes
Author(s)
Xu, Mingrui
Issue Date
2023-06-30
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Mahoney, Joseph T.
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
  • Mahoney, Joseph T.
  • Yao, Fiona Kun
Committee Member(s)
  • Sakhartov, Arkadiy
  • Schijven, Mario
Department of Study
Business Administration
Discipline
Business Administration
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
  • Redeployability
  • Resource redeployment
  • Entry mode
  • Expatriate staffing
  • Pharmaceutical industry
Abstract
This dissertation provides three empirical studies investigating multinational enterprises’ (MNEs) entry mode decisions, performance outcomes of the sequential moves of divestitures and subsequent greenfield investments, and expatriate staffing, respectively. From the redeployability perspective, all three empirical studies explore how MNEs’ sequential decision-making may help modify their resource base to improve performance and secure competitive advantage. With the context of US pharmaceutical firms’ global investments, this dissertation seeks to connect the redeployability perspective with international business (IB) phenomena and thus provide more empirical evidence for this value-creation mechanism through which firms free up and redeploy resources across countries. In addition, this dissertation examines potential boundary conditions for the redeployability perspective in IB research.
Graduation Semester
2023-08
Type of Resource
Thesis
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Copyright 2023 Mingrui Xu

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