现代产业经济学系列讲座第135期

时间: 2016年6月14日（周二）15:00–16:30

地点：复旦大学管理学院李达三楼806（国顺路670号）

主持人：Professor Pei SUN（孙霈教授）

主题：SME International Business Models: The Role of  Context and Experience 

主讲人：John Child（University of Birmingham, UK）

摘要：The seminar will address two questions through reporting a study of 180 SMEs located in contrasting industry and home country contexts. First, which business models for international markets prevail among SMEs and do they configure into different types? Second, which factors predict the business models that SMEs follow?  Data collected through on-site interviews are analysed using latent class analysis and multinomial logistic regression. The results confirm the utility of a business model concept that views the resource-based and transactional characteristics of a firm as sources of value creation in its domain – in this case in foreign markets. Three distinct international business models (adaptive traditional, exploitative follower, and ambidextrous explorer) are found among the SMEs studied. The likelihood of SMEs adopting one class of business model rather than another is to a high degree predictable with reference to a small set of factors that are identified within a combination of IB and IE perspectives: industry, level of home country economic development, and previous international experience.

主讲人简介：John Child received his PhD and ScD from the University of Cambridge. He is Professor at Birmingham, Plymouth, and Sun Yat-Sen Universities. In 1989 and 1990 he served as Dean and Director of the China-Europe Management Institute in Beijing, the forerunner of CEIBS. In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the prestigious British Academy [FBA]. His papers have appeared in many international journals. Among Professor Child’s 24 books, Corporate Co-evolution, co-authored with Suzana Rodrigues, won the 2009 Terry Book Award of the Academy of Management. He has been awarded honorary doctorates by Aston University, Aalborg University Denmark, the Helsinki School of Economics, and Corvinus University Hungary. His current interests focus on the societal consequences of organization and the internationalization of SMEs.

产业经济学系

2016-6-6