The relationship between internationalization and performance has attracted researchers’ attention for more than 40 years, producing contradictory results. Research on emerging-market (EM) multinationals’ performance has not added much clarity to the issue. Although contingency theory is widely applied in management research to explain superior organizational performance as a direct result of a ‘fit’ between structure, strategy, and environment, there has been little effort in extending the notion of strategy-structure-environment fit to include internationalization. We address this limitation by offering a comprehensive analysis of Russian internationalized firms’ performance, which reflects the complexity of strategic and structural changes that Russian firms make during internationalization. We use survey data on 213 predominantly private and mature firms to examine whether the alignment of a multitude of strategic and structural choices in a specific context matters for subsequent performance. We apply a fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) and find several distinct types of ‘fit’ that positively affect Russian internationalized firms’ performance.

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国际化的绩效效应：俄罗斯国际化企业的权变理论分析

40多年来，国际化与绩效之间的关系一直引起研究人员的关注，产生了相互矛盾的结果。对新兴市场 (EM) 跨国公司业绩的研究并未使问题更加清晰。尽管权变理论被广泛应用于管理研究，将卓越的组织绩效解释为结构、战略和环境之间“匹配”的直接结果，但很少有人努力将战略-结构-环境匹配的概念扩展到包括国际化. 我们通过对俄罗斯国际化公司的绩效进行全面分析来解决这一限制，这反映了俄罗斯公司在国际化过程中做出的战略和结构变化的复杂性。我们使用对 213 家主要是私营和成熟公司的调查数据来检查在特定背景下众多战略和结构选择的一致性是否对后续业绩很重要。我们应用模糊集定性比较分析 (fsQCA) 并发现几种不同类型的“适合”对俄罗斯国际化公司的绩效产生积极影响。