Article ID: | iaor200952600 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 20 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 187 |
End Page Number: | 205 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2009 |
Journal: | Organization Science |
Authors: | Chittoor Raveendra, Sarkar M B, Ray Sougata, Aulakh Preet S |
Keywords: | India, pharmaceutical industry |
This article investigates how Indian pharmaceutical firms, facing discontinuous institutional changes in their domestic environment due to economic liberalization and intellectual property reforms, have undertaken organizational transformation. Internationalization of resources and product markets constitutes an important component of organizational transformation for local firms in emerging economies. Using longitudinal data on 206 Indian pharmaceutical firms from 1995–2004, we find that firms' access to international technological and financial resources enables product market internationalization. Furthermore, we theorize and find support for our predictions that the association between international resources and markets is conditioned by time and business group affiliation, and product market internationalization affects financial performance. Several implications thus emerge for theory and practice associated with the sources of competitiveness in emerging economy firms and their transformation into globally competitive multinational firms.