Fiona Kun Yao
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
12 Papers
10 Citations
Fiona Kun Yao is an academic researcher from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The author has contributed to research in topics: Foreign direct investment & Multinational corporation. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 8 publications. Previous affiliations of Fiona Kun Yao include London School of Economics and Political Science & University of California, Berkeley.
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Papers
The role of reference groups in international investment decisions by firms from emerging economies
Jiatao Li,Fiona Kun Yao +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, investment in China by firms from emerging economies was studied to determine how various reference groups affect their foreign market entry behavior, and imitation was shown to be an important factor, but the mechanism seems to vary depending on the institutional environments in the host and the home market.
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Confidence in learning: Inter- and intraorganizational learning in foreign market entry decisions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the information signaled by the distribution attributes of foreign investors already operating in a location will influence the entry decisions of later arrivals by affecting their level of confidence in imitating.
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The social dilemma of bribery in emerging economies: A dynamic model of emotion, social value, and institutional uncertainty
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors conceptualized bribery decisions in terms of social dilemmas, that is, the acquisition of valuable assets for personal good vs. maintaining a fair and open mechanism for the collective common good.
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Multi-market Contact and Foreign Entry Location Decisions in China
Fiona Kun Yao,Jiatao Li +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, location decisions of foreign subsidiaries in China were studied from the multi-market contact (MMC) perspective, and the influence of MMC on foreign entry decisions was contingent upon the cultural distance between the home and host countries.
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Not all threats are equal: symbolic and realistic threats and the deployment of parent-country nationals
Fiona Kun Yao,Jing Yu Yang,Song Chang,Jane Wenzhen Lu +3 more
TL;DR: This study develops a threat-contingency model explaining how symbolic and realistic host-country threats influence multinational enterprises' deployment of parent-country nationals, with symbolic threats increasing rigid deployment and realistic threats decreasing it, moderated by industry globalization.
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