Organizational Identity and Capability Development in Internationalization: Transference, Splicing, and Enhanced Imitation in Tesco’s US Market Entry

Entry into international markets is a challenging process that fundamentally tests existing capabilities. During this entry process, capability gaps arise that need to be bridged to exploit the commercial opportunity and grow the business. Using a global retailer, Tesco plc, as a case study and empl...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: LOWE, Michelle, GEORGE, Gerard, ALEXY, Oliver
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
Subjects:
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4659
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/5658/viewcontent/Organizational_Identity_Tesco_2012.pdf
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
id sg-smu-ink.lkcsb_research-5658
record_format dspace
spelling sg-smu-ink.lkcsb_research-56582017-11-23T06:56:39Z Organizational Identity and Capability Development in Internationalization: Transference, Splicing, and Enhanced Imitation in Tesco’s US Market Entry LOWE, Michelle GEORGE, Gerard ALEXY, Oliver Entry into international markets is a challenging process that fundamentally tests existing capabilities. During this entry process, capability gaps arise that need to be bridged to exploit the commercial opportunity and grow the business. Using a global retailer, Tesco plc, as a case study and employing grounded theory development techniques, we find that to achieve growth, two organizational attributes become critical—structural coherence of the firm’s capabilities and organizational identity. We identify three processes of capability development during market entry—transference, splicing and enhanced imitation. Further, actions and processes that maintain or adapt organizational identity serve as moderators of the relationship between these processes and the capability deployment and internalization necessary for entry into international markets. We discuss the study’s implications for theories of capability development, organizational identity and foreign market entry. 2012-07-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4659 info:doi/10.1093/jeg/lbs016 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/5658/viewcontent/Organizational_Identity_Tesco_2012.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Capability development retail strategy Tesco Business International Business Strategic Management Policy
institution Singapore Management University
building SMU Libraries
continent Asia
country Singapore
Singapore
content_provider SMU Libraries
collection InK@SMU
language English
topic Capability development
retail
strategy
Tesco
Business
International Business
Strategic Management Policy
spellingShingle Capability development
retail
strategy
Tesco
Business
International Business
Strategic Management Policy
LOWE, Michelle
GEORGE, Gerard
ALEXY, Oliver
Organizational Identity and Capability Development in Internationalization: Transference, Splicing, and Enhanced Imitation in Tesco’s US Market Entry
description Entry into international markets is a challenging process that fundamentally tests existing capabilities. During this entry process, capability gaps arise that need to be bridged to exploit the commercial opportunity and grow the business. Using a global retailer, Tesco plc, as a case study and employing grounded theory development techniques, we find that to achieve growth, two organizational attributes become critical—structural coherence of the firm’s capabilities and organizational identity. We identify three processes of capability development during market entry—transference, splicing and enhanced imitation. Further, actions and processes that maintain or adapt organizational identity serve as moderators of the relationship between these processes and the capability deployment and internalization necessary for entry into international markets. We discuss the study’s implications for theories of capability development, organizational identity and foreign market entry.
format text
author LOWE, Michelle
GEORGE, Gerard
ALEXY, Oliver
author_facet LOWE, Michelle
GEORGE, Gerard
ALEXY, Oliver
author_sort LOWE, Michelle
title Organizational Identity and Capability Development in Internationalization: Transference, Splicing, and Enhanced Imitation in Tesco’s US Market Entry
title_short Organizational Identity and Capability Development in Internationalization: Transference, Splicing, and Enhanced Imitation in Tesco’s US Market Entry
title_full Organizational Identity and Capability Development in Internationalization: Transference, Splicing, and Enhanced Imitation in Tesco’s US Market Entry
title_fullStr Organizational Identity and Capability Development in Internationalization: Transference, Splicing, and Enhanced Imitation in Tesco’s US Market Entry
title_full_unstemmed Organizational Identity and Capability Development in Internationalization: Transference, Splicing, and Enhanced Imitation in Tesco’s US Market Entry
title_sort organizational identity and capability development in internationalization: transference, splicing, and enhanced imitation in tesco’s us market entry
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2012
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4659
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/5658/viewcontent/Organizational_Identity_Tesco_2012.pdf
_version_ 1770572379835072512