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Abstract：This review article starts from the question: how does the global business system appear to a challenger firm, and how have challenger Multinational Enterprises (MNEs)from formerly peripheral areas such as the Asia Pacific established themselves successfully,against the sometimes fierce resistance of incumbents? To answer this question, the review develops an argument concerning the pluralistic character of the process of globalization,as contrasted with the conventional account that sees global processes creating uniformity and convergence. This alternative account is based on a review of the experiences of latecomer and newcomer MNEs, 本论文由英语论文网 www.51lunwen.org整理提供particularly those from the Asia Pacific—such as Acer, Ispat International, Li & Fung and the Hong Leong Group—that are dubbed “Dragon Multinationals.” I argue that the innovative features that these MNEs share, such as their accelerated internationalization, strategic innovation and organizational innovation, fit particularly well with the characteristics of the emergent global economy as one of complex inter-firm linkages. The core proposition of the review is that this complementarity between the characteristics of the emergent global economy and latecomer and newcomer strategic and organizational innovations is what drives the remarkable success of these Asia Pacific firms in establishing themselves as serious international players. Such a proposition carries implications for the process of globalization as well as for the dominant frameworks utilized in International Business. The review argues that Dragon Multinationals adopt a different perspective to the resources accessed through internationalization, and that this requires a rethink of the criteria normally utilized in resource-based accounts of strategy. The challenger firm internationalizing in order to access resources also poses a challenge to the
dominant OLI (ownership, locational, internalization) account of multinational advantage.Thus it is argued that the question posed at the outset goes to the core of the IB frameworks,and thereby counts as one of the ‘big questions’ that should guide research in IB in the21st century.

1. Introduction
2. New zoology of the global economy
3. Latecomers and newcomers: Distinctive characteristics
3.1. Accelerated internationalization
3.2. Organizational innovation
3.3. Strategic innovation
4. Accounting for success: International business frameworks
4.1. Internationalization
4.2. Strategic impulse to internationalization
4.3. Sources of international advantage: the OLI framework
5. An alternative and complementary framework grounded in globalization: LLL
5.1. Linkage
5.2. Leverage
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6. The ‘big questions’ of International Business research
7. Globalization and accelerated internationalization from the periphery
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