Dear colleagues,

 

Submissions for the AIB India 2019 Chapter Conference are now open. A thematic overview of this year’s event is available below. Please read the attached Call for Papers for full details on how to submit your work.

 

Best,

Ms. C. Shankari

AIB- INDIA Chapter Office

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Phone : 9500032495, 6380338272

 

GOING INTERNATIONAL: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

 

The 2019 AIB -India Chapter Conference will explore the challenges and opportunities in Going International. Foreign investments from India have been changing considerably not only in terms of magnitude but also in terms of geographical spread and sectoral composition. Analysis of the trends in direct investments over the last decade reveals that while investment flows, both inward and outward, were rather muted during the early part of the decade, they have gained momentum during the recent years.

 

India is an economy with a changing institutional environment, so the country’s situation is an interesting context to examine the influence of certain variables on international decisions made by multinational enterprises. Very little is known about strategies of Indian multinational enterprises as compared to multinational enterprises from developed economies .This conference will discuss and debate the factors that lead Indian firms to enter foreign markets through various entry strategies. More specifically, the conference will focus on what external and internal

factors lead Indian enterprises to enter a foreign market through various entry strategies ;whether Indian enterprises, with exposure to slow industrial development, infrastructure and capacity, display the same patterns of behaviour as multinational enterprises from other countries.

 

From a theoretical point of view, emerging economies like India are a new context with their own characteristics in terms of how their resources are configured when compared with developed countries; for example, firms from developing countries do not usually have the same ownership advantages as large multinational enterprises from developed economies. This means that traditional theories alone may not suffice to study the internationalisation process carried out by emerging market enterprises. The internationalisation of Indian enterprises and the determinants of their expansion is an interesting area of research. A multi-theoretical approach appears to be more appropriate to analyse the determining factors of entry mode choice of emerging Indian enterprises. In doing so, there is need to integrate the existing literature on internationalisation with the institutional perspective

 

Note: The AIB-India Conference will be followed immediately by the first module of the 2019-20 International Business (Ind-IB) Research workshop.