Abstract Extant literature on the more satisfactory account of latecomers growth are scarce. We apply an event-path analysis, and extract the events that selected latecomer interacted with foreign firms during last 40 years, and discuss how a latecomer with dual-dependence resources can achieve “outside-in" logic, and what is the outcome? We propose a framework of how latecomer achieves "outside-in" logic, and the framework describes latecomers’ four kinds of ambidexterous behaviors in term of dependence object and nature, which possess paradoxical nature. Latecomer can dynamically balance technology and market across and within domains, which will enable latecomer transforms its external resource dependencies into its inherent agency.
2016, Vol. 13 
