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Industrial and Corporate Change 2009 18(2):223-247; doi:10.1093/icc/dtp003
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This article appears in the following Industrial and Corporate Change issue: Special Issue: The Internationalization of Chinese and Indian Firms-Trends, Motivations and Strategy [View the issue table of contents]

Internationalization trajectories—a cross-country comparison: Are large Chinese and Indian companies different?

Fabienne Fortanier and Rob van Tulder

Correspondence: Fabienne Fortanier, University of Amsterdam Business School, Plantage Muidergracht 12, 1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands. e-mail: F.N.Fortanier{at}uva.nl.

Correspondence: Rob van Tulder, Rotterdam School of Management, Department of Business-Society Management, RSM Erasmus University Rotterdam, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, Room T7-03, 3062 PA Rotterdam, The Netherlands. e-mail: rtulder{at}rsm.nl

This article explores whether the internationalization trajectories—patterns over time in the level, pace, variability, and temporal concentration of international expansion—of large firms from China and India are fundamentally different from those of developed country firms. A longitudinal cross-country comparative study of 256 large firms for the 1990–2004/2005 period shows that although internationalization trajectories of large and leading Chinese and Indian firms are indeed different, there are also considerable similarities between established developed country firms and the new firms from emerging markets, not in the least, because they often interact within the same sector.


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