SEMINAR SERIES
Management Seminar
Monica Ren（Lecturer/Assistant Professor，Macquarie University）
- Date&Time:
- 2025.11.14 (Fri) 13:15-14:45
- Venue:
- Lecture Room 2 on 3F, Research Bldg. No.2, Yoshida Campus, Kyoto University
- Language:
- English
- Contact:
- Tomoki Sekiguchi
"Yin-Yang and Paradoxes in Business and Management: Theories and the Implementations" Monica Ren
Abstract:
Subsidiaries adopt nonmarket strategies in host countries to merit legitimacy. This conceptual paper theorizes paradoxes and nonmarket strategies for Chinese SOMNEs' subsidiaries in selective de-globalization targeting China. We enrich the well-received co-evolutionary framework in the IB literature by incorporating the Yin-Yang frame into the analysis and broadening the scope of thinking beyond the economic analysis of risks and costs in political disruptions on MNE subsidiaries. Our integrated theoretical framework highlights two dynamic environments (social and geopolitical) that subsidiaries simultaneously confront and the multi-level institutional pressures within these environments. We propose three Yin-Yang framed nonmarket strategies — zao-shi (造势) (creating favorable momentum), ying-shi (应势) (Not resisting unfavorable momentum) and wu-wei (无为) (inactive action) to address the paradoxes in a de-globalized business environment.
About:
Dr Monica Ren is a China/Australia international business expert in the countries' foreign direct investment (FDI), firms' internationalisation strategies, and business/ guanxi networks for both State-owned enterprises (SOEs) and Small to medium enterprises (SMEs). Her research focus has been expanded to the US-China trade war, decoupling and de-globalisation in recent years. She also integrates Eastern and Western perspectives (e.g., Yin-Yang and paradox) in strategic management. She is a scholar, a creative thinker with an entrepreneurial spirit, and a mindfulness practitioner.
Dr Ren is an Assistant Professor/ Lecturer in International Business, Macquarie University Business School at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She was an affiliated scholar with King’s College, UK. She holds a BBus and an MFin from Victoria University, Melbourne, and a PhD in international business from Macquarie University. She also serves on the Editorial Review Board of Management and Organisation Review and co-chairs the Paradox Research–Education–Practice (PREP) Conference for the Asia–Oceania region.
Her studies have appeared in leading journals such as the Journal of International Management, International Business Review, International Marketing Review, and the American Business Review. She is currently a Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, working on Yin–Yang logic and paradox theory, and Japanese semiconductor firms in global supply chain decoupling, with Professor Tomoki Sekiguchi.
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