The Liabilities of Origin: An Emerging Economy Perspective on the Costs of Doing Business Abroad

By J. Ramachandran, Anirvan Pant. 2010

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Subfields: Accounting, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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The Social Responsibility of International Business: From Ethics and the Environment to CSR and Sustainable Development (2016, unknown): “Examples include institutional failures, liabilities (of origin, foreignness and multinationality, cf. Denk, Kaufmann, & Roesch, 2012; Ramachandran & Pant, 2010), global/regional/local firm-specific advantages and strategies (Kolk, 2010c; Kolk, Lindeque, & Van den Buuse, 2014a; Poisson-de Haro &…”
Acquisitions as entrepreneurship: asymmetries, opportunities, and the internationalization of multinationals from emerging economies (2012, unknown): “13 (Ramachandran and Pant, 2010).”
Widening the lens: Rethinking distance, diversity, and foreignness in international business research through positive organizational scholarship (2016, background): “…(Zaheer, 1995), which is that of being a stranger in a faraway land; they may also face the “liabilities of origin” (Bartlett & Ghoshal, 2000; Ramachandran & Pant, 2010), which refers to disadvantages that result from their origin from a certain location (e.g., being an emerging market…”
Emerging market multinational companies’ evolutionary paths to building a competitive advantage from emerging markets to developed countries (2016, background): “In order to overcome this ‘liability of emergingness’ (Madhok & Keyhani, 2012), handicap incurred because of where they are from (Ramachandran & Pant, 2010), EMNCs like Wipro focus on establishing world class quality for their products to enhance their brand recognition.”
Escaping the iron cage: Liabilities of origin and CSR reporting of emerging market multinational enterprises (2017, background): “More specifically, we propose that emerging market multinational enterprises (EM-MNEs) are subject to liabilities of origin, that is, disadvantages faced in host countries because of poor institutional conditions in the home country (Bartlett & Ghoshal, 2000; Ramachandran & Pant, 2010).”
Multinational enterprises and climate change: Exploring institutional failures and embeddedness (2011, background): “…which refer to difficulties MNEs have in a host-country context; to multinationality (Zaheer, 2002), for example, in managing divergent norms across countries (Donaldson & Dunfee, 1994); and to origin, for example, discrimination of an MNE due to its nationality (Ramachandran & Pant, 2010).”