SEMINAR SERIES
Management Seminar
Yan Anthea Zhang・Haiyang Li（Professor, Fayez Sarofim Vanguard Chair of Strategic Management, and the Professor of Strategic Management and innovation,; both at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University; respectively）
- Date&Time:
- 2025.12.3 (Wed) 14:00-16:30
- Venue:
- SMBC Hall B1F, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics, East Bldg. , yoshida Campus, Kyoto University
- Language:
- English
- Contact:
- Asli M. COLPAN
[Presentation No. 1]”Chinese Firms’ Foreign Direct Investments in the New Era of Globalization”
[Presentation No. 2]”Platform Owners’ Entry and Complementors’ Innovation: The Impact of Platform Evolution within and across Technology Generations”
Abstract:
① In the past decades, China has changed from a major recipient of foreign direct investments (FDIs) to a major source of FDIs. Chinese companies’ FDIs differ from FDIs from developed countries in two important ways: (1) many Chinese firms are newcomers in global markets, and they do not have much experience in FDIs; and (2) Chinese government and state-owned enterprises play important roles in China’s outbound FDIs. Professor Yan “Anthea” Zhang will present two of her studies, which examine how Chinese firms choose locations for their outbound FDIs and manage risks on global markets.
② The platform literature has shown conflicting findings regarding how a platform owner's entry into its complementors' market affects complementors’ innovation. To reconcile these mixed findings, we present a dynamic perspective on platform evolution within and across technology generations. We argue that in the early stage of a platform's technology generation, the platform owner’s entry provides vicarious learning opportunities for complementors to understand and reduce their technology and demand uncertainties, thus encouraging their innovation. However, in the late stage, the platform owner's entry increases competitive pressure on complementors, thus discouraging their innovation. We further explore how technology gaps between two successive generations and complementors' product portfolios’ attributes moderate these relationships. Our findings, using data from the game console industry (2000–2020), strongly support these arguments.
If you would like to participate in this seminar, please register yourself from the Google form below, by noon on December 3th (Wed), 2025.
https://forms.gle/5aJFXU9zPYpuDCW9A
Contact: colpan-secretary[at]mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Please replace [at] with @)