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Mirror or no mirror? Architectural design of cross-border integration of Chinese multinational enterprises

Authors: Jiang Wei, Yang Yang, Sali Li

Published in: Asia Pacific Journal of Management | Issue 4/2021

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With the increase in overseas acquisitions by Chinese multinational enterprises (CMNEs), corporations face the challenge of designing and building global architecture to enhance their performance in post-acquisition integration. A well-known design rule that CMNEs could follow is the mirroring hypothesis. However, the effectiveness of this hypothesis in aligning a CMNE’s organizational structure with the underlying technical system after acquiring a new subsidiary remains unclear. Using a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis to analyze 34 cross-border acquisitions by CMNEs, we clarify the boundary conditions of the mirroring hypothesis and identify four archetypes of design patterns, namely, modularized mirroring, integral mirroring, mirror breaking, and mirror misted-up. We also identify the respective performance implications of these archetypes on the post-acquisition integration of CMNEs. This study presents a comprehensive assessment of the mirroring hypothesis and contributes to the discussion on global architecture design by emerging multinational enterprises in general.

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Title: Mirror or no mirror? Architectural design of cross-border integration of Chinese multinational enterprises
Authors: Jiang Wei
Yang Yang
Sali Li
Publication date: 17-12-2019
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Asia Pacific Journal of Management / Issue 4/2021
Print ISSN: 0217-4561
Electronic ISSN: 1572-9958
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-019-09699-5

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