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Nguyen, Quyen T.K.; Almodóvar, Paloma; Wei, Ziyi
Journal of business research, 06/2022, Volume: 145Journal Article
•We examine how financial capital affects the decision to export (export propensity) and the share of exports over total sales (export intensity) by foreign subsidiaries of multinational enterprises (MNEs).•We dissect exports into intra-firm exports (exports to sister affiliates and parent firms) and arm’s length exports (exports to third-party external customers). We focus on the types of capital which can be used to finance exports, namely, intra-firm loans and bank loans.•We theorise that these two financing sources have different impacts on subsidiary export behaviour.•We use a survey dataset of subsidiaries, host-country data, and two-part models to test our hypotheses.•We find that intra-firm loans are positively related to arm’s length export propensity and intensity; however, intra-firm loans have no significant relationship with intra-firm export propensity and export intensity. Bank loans only have a positive impact on the likelihood of subsidiaries becoming arm’s length exporters, but they do not help subsidiaries with arm’s length export intensity. Bank loans negatively impact the likelihood of subsidiaries becoming intra-firm exporters; however, once subsidiaries participate in intra-firm exports, bank loans are positively associated with intra-firm export intensity. We discuss the implications of our findings for theory and practice. In this study, we build upon internalisation theory in the international business literature and international trade finance in the international economics literature to examine how financial capital affects the decision to export (export propensity) and the share of exports over total sales (export intensity) by the foreign subsidiaries of multinational enterprises. We dissect exports into intra-firm exports (exports to sister affiliates and parent firms) and arm’s length exports (exports to third-party external customers), and we focus on the types of capital that can be used for financing exports, namely intra-firm loans and bank loans. We theorise that these two financing sources have different impacts on subsidiary export behaviour. To test our hypotheses, we use a survey dataset of subsidiaries, host-country data, and two-part models. Our findings show that intra-firm loans are positively related to arm’s length export propensity and intensity; however, intra-firm loans have no significant relationship with intra-firm export propensity and export intensity. Additionally, on the one hand, bank loans have a positive impact on the likelihood of subsidiaries becoming arm’s length exporters, but they do not help subsidiaries with arm’s length export intensity. On the other hand, bank loans negatively impact the likelihood of subsidiaries becoming intra-firm exporters; however, once subsidiaries participate in intra-firm exports, bank loans are positively associated with intra-firm export intensity. We discuss the implications of our findings for theory and practice.
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