讲座题目：Event Space and MNEs’ International Involvement: Japanese MNEs in China During the US-China Trade War（事件空间与跨国公司的国际介入：中美贸易战期间日本在华跨国公司的表现）

主讲人：吕文珍 香港城市大学管理系

讲座地点：学院210

讲座时间： 2024年3月29日9:30

讲座内容摘要：

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) frequently contend with disruptive events that jeopardize their operations in host countries and necessitate adjustments to their global presence for sustained competitiveness. Existing research has focused predominantly on the MNEs directly affected, overlooking other MNEs susceptible to indirect consequences and lacking insights into the mechanisms governing those impacts. Building on the event system theory, this study uses a pivotal event—the US–China trade war—to scrutinize how Japanese MNEs in China have recalibrated their global involvement in response to the trade war. Although Japanese MNEs are not the direct targets of the trade war, they can become associated with the event through the market and ownership dimensions of the event space. Consequently, in anticipation of the negative impacts of the trade war event, they reduce their operations in China. Our research reveals that this decision is also influenced by whether Japanese MNEs have similar industry layouts in other countries, thus allowing them to replace their operations in China. This study extends research related to MNEs’ international involvement by exploring a scenario of rising geopolitical tensions, and it also contributes a new and novel observer perspective to the literature on MNE activity under globally disruptive events.

跨国企业经常面临破坏性事件，这些事件危及其在东道国的业务，并需要调整其全球存在以保持竞争力。现有研究主要集中在直接受影响的跨国公司，忽略了其他易受间接后果影响的跨国企业，也缺乏对这些影响的机制的深入了解。基于事件系统理论，本研究利用一个关键事件——美中贸易战——来审视在华的日本跨国公司如何重新调整其全球参与度以应对贸易战。尽管日本跨国公司不是贸易战的直接目标，但它们可以通过活动空间的市场和所有权维度与活动联系在一起。因此，考虑到贸易战事件的负面影响，他们减少了在中国的业务。我们的研究表明，这一决定还受到日本跨国公司是否在其他国家有类似的行业布局的影响，从而允许它们取代在中国的业务。本研究通过探索地缘政治紧张局势加剧的情景，扩展了与跨国公司国际参与相关的研究，也为全球破坏性事件下跨国公司活动的文献提供了一个新的、新颖的观察者视角。

主讲人学术简介：

Jane Lu （吕文珍）is Chair Professor at the Department of Management, City University of Hong Kong. She is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and the President of the Asia Academy of Management. Her research centers on the intersection between organization theory and strategy. Her earlier research investigates broad-level issues that underlie a firm's international strategy. Her recent research continues this line of research with a focus on emerging market firms and their non-market strategies. Her work has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management and Journal of International Business Studies, among other leading journals. She is currently a Senior Editor of the Journal of World Business and a Consulting Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies.

吕文珍，香港城市大学管理系讲席教授，国际商务学会（AIB）会士，亚洲管理学会现任主席。主要研究领域集中在组织与战略理论的相互影响。早期研究广泛涉猎于企业国际化战略的各领域，近期主要聚焦于新兴国家企业及其非市场化战略。其研究成果大量发表在国际一流期刊如AMJ、ASQ、SMJ、JoM、JIBS等。