Network Positions and Internationalization: An Empirical Study of the Distribution Channels in Semiconductor Industry
Date Issued
2012
Date
2012
Author(s)
Tzou, Shyh-Yeu
Abstract
This study argues that firm’s network positions play important roles in its internationalization, and intends to provide a network explanation for the purported relationship between firm’s network positions and its internationalization in the context of semiconductor industry. This study adopts the quantitative methodology to explore the research questions. Drawing on thirty years of observations for each of the five years from 1980 to 2010 for distributor firms in the semiconductor industry, this study utilizes panel data regression to examine the effects of a firm’s network positions on its internationalization. The sample of this study is the 113 franchised semiconductor distributor firms in Taiwan of the WSTS’s (World Semiconductor Trade Statics) 63 member companies. WSTS’s member companies represent more than 75% of the world semiconductor market. Worldwide top 20 semiconductor suppliers are WSTS members. This virtually includes all major semiconductor manufacturers from 4 major regions, namely America, EMEA(Europe, Middle East, and Africa), Japan and Asia Pacific. Results of this study support the positive relationship between firm’s centrality of its network positions and its internationalization, the positive relationship between firm’s structural holes of its network positions and its internationalization, and the positive relationship between firm’s brokerage of its network positions and its internationalization. The moderator effects of firm’s joining association and going initial public offering (IPO) in the structural holes-internationalization relationship are supported by this study, while the moderator effects of firm’s joining association and going IPO in the centrality-internationalization relationship are not supported by this study.
Subjects
internationalization
network position
distribution channels
semiconductor
Type
thesis
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