The international penetration of ibusiness firms: Network effects, liabilities of outsidership and country clout

• Main Authors: CHEN, Liang, SHAHEER, Noman, YI, Jingtao, LI, Sali
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: digital; network effect; platform; outsidership; internationalization; foreign market entry; E-Commerce; International Business; Strategic Management Policy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/7294; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/8293/viewcontent/ibusinessPenetration_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The burgeoning of ibusiness firms in the modern digital economy challenges the received internationalization theory. Given that ibusinesses such as social networking sites create value by providing a digital platform for users to interact with one another, we employ a user-network perspective and ex...