SYSTEMIC APPROACH TO FORMING THE COMPETITIVE INTERNATIONALIZATION STRATEGY BY PLATFORM MNES
Keywords:
Platform MNE, firm-specific advantages (FSAs), internationalization strategy, factors of internationalization, network effects, digital maturity, platform business regulationAbstract
Article reveals a consolidated vision of sources of firm-specific advantages (FSAs) of platform MNEs, allowing them to successfully compete with and displace linear MNEs in global market. Manuscript lists the factors that determine the internationalization strategy platform business owners select, which have found practical application in developed algorithmic model entailing a step-by-step analysis of internal and external business environment, result of which is formation of competitive internationalization strategy by platform MNEs.