TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract This chapter develops a multi-path theory of diversified international expansion that explains how multiple wave-shaped performance curves are created as multinational companies expand into increasingly distant and dissimilar countries. According to this theory, multinational mobile network operators (MNOs) recover from over-diversified expansion by improving their local adaptation strategies by means of reconfiguring the value chain and entering local partnerships, by improving their global replication capabilities or by concentrating expansion to clusters of similar country markets. Three dynamic propositions are developed and exemplified concerning MNOs’ diversified international expansion. Implications for international diversification research finalize the chapter.
VL  - 30
SN  - 978-1-78743-071-6, 978-1-78743-072-3/1571-5027
DO  - 10.1108/S1571-502720170000030008
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1571-502720170000030008
AU  - Elter Frank
AU  - Ulset Svein
PY  - 2017
Y1  - 2017/01/01
TI  - Toward a Multi-Path Theory of Diversified International Expansion: The Case of Multinational Mobile Network Operators
T2  - Breaking up the Global Value Chain
T3  - Advances in International Management
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 189
EP  - 213
Y2  - 2024/05/07
ER  -