Homin Chen

National Taiwan University | NTU · Department of International Business

Purpose Using insights from the supply chain resilience perspective and the international business literature, this study aims to investigate the determinants of firms’ decisions to reshore manufacturing under the high levels of uncertainty brought about by the ongoing US–China trade war and COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach The propo...

Purpose The “global factory” business model of some Asian economies provided many OEM opportunities for their growing firms, which led these firms on a reverse industrial development path that has been overlooked in the literature. These firms are now at a crossroad because this model is threatened by turbulent conditions. This study investigates w...

Academia and governments have been advocating service deployment as an upgrading strategy for manufacturers for some time now. Existing research findings show that customer co-creation may be a key to service strategy success. However, prior studies have focused on relatively resource-rich and advanced Western contexts. This research examined co-cr...

This study examines whether local conditions (i.e., location-bound advantages and local density) are significantly related to foreign subsidiary performance in an emerging market. We also explore the moderating effect of entry timing on the relationship between local conditions and foreign subsidiary performance. Analysis of a longitudinal dataset...

By integrating the business network perspective and strategic linkages literature, this study examines the relationship among parent-subsidiary linkages (i.e. parent linkages and local linkages), linkage features (i.e. business group affiliation and local dispersion), and subsidiary performance in an emerging economy. Our analysis of 1047 foreign s...

By integrating the business network perspective and strategic linkages literature, this study examines the relationship among parent- subsidiary linkages (i.e. parent linkages and local linkages), linkages features (i.e. business group affiliation and local dispersion), and foreign subsidiary performance. Our analysis of 1047 foreign subsidiaries f...

The strategic entrepreneurship literature suggests that the ambidextrous integration of opportunity-exploring and advantage-exploiting strategies is essential to preserve a firm¡¦s competitive advantage. This study tests empirically the decision to pursue strategic entrepreneurship and the performance outcome for emerging economy firms. Additionall...

By integrating the liability of foreignness and entry timing literature, this study examines the relationship among local condition (i.e. local density and location bound advantage), entry timing, and foreign subsidiary performance. Our analysis of 1047 foreign subsidiaries from an Asian NIE (Taiwan) in an emerging market (the People¡¦s Republic of...

By integrating the international experience and liability of foreignness literature, this study explores the contingencies relating firm¡¦s international experience and managerial capability to mitigate the liability of foreignness. Empirical results from a sample of 207 Taiwanese MNCs indicated that exploitative experience and explorative experien...

We explore the internationalization of Taiwanese manufacturing firms by studying the evolutionary trajectories of their subsidiaries. Building upon the literature, we formulate and apply dimensions capability development and mandate expansion to explain the evolutionary paths of Taiwanese foreign direct investment. Subsidiaries are categorizable in...

In this paper, we treat the multinational firm as an internal market in which various business units compete for scarce resources. By using the resource dependence theory to examine the parent–subsidiary relationship, we view this relationship as more of a political coalition than a hierarchy. We studied the pattern of capability transfers from the...

This article takes a dynamic perspective on network change, following the multi-stage pattern of the expansion, churning, strengthening and shrinking evolutionary stages suggested in previous literature, but adding a co-evolutionary rejuvenation stage. Based on a longitudinal case study of the interactions between Taiwanese machinery and flat panel...

In this paper, we examine the effects of internationalization and resource allocation on firm performance. We argue that resource allocation plays a pivotal role in determining a firm's international growth. Using a sample of Taiwanese firms, we find an optimal level of internationalization, in terms of the number of countries, as well as the level...

This study uses a dynamic capabilities perspective to illustrate how global configurations of value chain activities are able to contribute to a firm’s capability development through foreign direct investment. Using Taiwanese firms as an empirical sample, we develop testable hypotheses regarding the impact of global configuration in terms of entry...

In this paper, we examine the different resource linkages sought by manufacturing firms through strategic alliance. We look closely at the impact of manufacturing activities on choice of resource linkage. Using a sample of Taiwanese firms, we found that product development ability and marketing distribution channels are the top priority resource li...

This paper analyses the pattern of local linkages in foreign direct investment (FDI), treating such local linkages as an investment in local relationships. Using Taiwanese manufacturing firms investing abroad as the sample for our case study, we find that the local linkage intensity of a foreign subsidiary differs by FDI location, entry mode, firm...

In this paper, we examine the pattern of resource alignment in strategic alliances and its relevance to the scheme of cooperation. This resource-based perspective is combined with the transaction cost model to interpret the governance structure of international strategic alliances undertaken by Taiwanese firms. We find that whilst the transaction c...

We briefly review the rationale behind technological alliances and provide a snapshot of their role in global competition, especially insofar as it is based around intellectual capital. They nicely illustrate the increased importance of horizontal agreements and thus establish the relevance of the topic. We move on to discuss the organisation of in...

This study examines multinationals’ performance using a hybrid model. By considering firm-specific assets hypothesis, this study incorporates the structure-conduct-performance paradigm and entry mode choice to develop and test a theoretical argument for international performance. Taiwanese MNCs are chosen to test both the validity of the overall fr...

This paper shows that network linkage is an important determinant of location choice in foreign direct investment (FDI). Network linkages are divided into internal (intra-firm) and external (inter-firm) linkages. External linkages are further separated into strategic and relational linkages. We found that Taiwanese firms are keen on making external...

This article studies the pattern of Taiwanese foreign direct investment (FDI) in light of strategic linkage theory. Measuring the level of proprietary asset by technological capability and scale of operation, we found that firms possessing higher levels of proprietary assets invest in more advanced host countries. Through FDI, higher levels of prop...