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Corporate Market and Nonmarket Strategies in Asia: A Conceptual Framework

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Vinod K. Aggarwal
Vinod K. Aggarwal*
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
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Department of Political Science, 210 Barrows Hall #1950, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley CA 94720–1950. Email: [email protected].
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Abstract

Despite recent currency crises, most of the Asia-Pacific economies continue to be among the most attractive markets in the world and now appear to be recovering rapidly. An important element in understanding the dynamics of firm strategies in Asia is the nature of nonmarket strategies, which concern efforts to respond to and influence the political-economic-social environment. To examine such nonmarket strategies and how they fit with other firm tasks, this article first focuses on “positional analysis”—that is, how market forces, firm competencies, and the nonmarket environment influence the choice of trade, investment, or some mix, at the national, regional, or global level. It then considers the nature of “strategic analysis,” consisting of a firm's choices of market arena, a transaction cost analysis of organization forms for market penetration, and a distributive politics analysis of nonmarket issues. These factors combine to influence the firm's integrated strategic choice. Implementation of this choice is based on “tactical analysis” that focuses on the market, organizational, and nonmarket tactics that firms must pursue to succeed with their chosen strategy.

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Research Article
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Business and Politics , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , August 2001 , pp. 89 - 108
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Copyright © V.K. Aggarwal 2001 and published under exclusive license to Cambridge University Press 

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Footnotes

For comments on earlier versions of this article, I would like to thank David Baron, Cédric Dupont, Ralph Espach, Ed Fogarty, Justin Kolbeck, Kun-Chin Lin, Trevor Nakagawa, and John Ravenhill.

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