A Recombination-Based Internationalization Model: Evidence from Narayana Health’s Journey from India to the Cayman Islands
通过对印度Narayana Health医院进入开曼群岛的纵向研究，提出基于重组的国际化模型，解释企业如何在东道国通过整合和适应母国异质资源来创造新资源，解决复制与适应的权衡问题。
Internationalizing firms often find developing host-country resources challenging as they simultaneously attempt to replicate the resources that worked well in the home country and adapt them to fit the context of the host country. On the basis of a longitudinal study of the expansion of India-domiciled Narayana Health (NH), a tertiary healthcare provider, to the contextually distinct Cayman Islands, we propose a recombination-based internationalization model that allows us to offer a new conception of this replication–adaptation tradeoff. Recombination entails creating anew in the host country by drawing from, adapting, and integrating diverse resources developed earlier in heterogeneous settings in the home country. We theoretically explore the mechanisms underlying such recombination processes in organizational settings.