Identifying liabilities of foreignness and strategies to minimize their effects: the case of labor lawsuit judgments in the United States

By John M. Mezias. 2002

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Multinationals and corporate social responsibility in host countries: Does distance matter? (2011, positive): “Empirical evidence suggests that LOF indeed plagues foreign affiliates, and can significantly hamper their survivability and performance in host countries (Mezias, 2002; Zaheer & Mosakowski, 1997).”
MNE institutional advantage: How subunits shape, transpose and evade host country institutions (2014, background): “Second, the subunits of MNEs often inhabit marginal or weakly embedded positions in host country institutions and networks (cf. Mezias, 2002).”
The Liabilities of Origin: An Emerging Economy Perspective on the Costs of Doing Business Abroad (2010, neutral): “operations relative to local firms (Miller & Parkhe, 2002), lower survival rates (Zaheer, 1995; Zaheer & Mosakowski, 1997), greater incidence of labor lawsuits (Mezias, 2002b), and poorer innovation outcomes (Schmidt & Sofka, 2009).”
Success in Global Venture Capital Investing: Do Institutional and Cultural Differences Matter? (2014, neutral): “13 Rajan and Zingales (2003) emphasize that financial systems in which capital availability is restricted to only a few select firms cannot be considered financially developed.”
Merging without alienating: interventions promoting cross-cultural organizational integration and their limitations (2009, background): “Indeed, the potentially alienating stressors of FDI in the United States, including but not solely associated with Japanese investors, continues not only to be reflected in the subjective accounts of the popular press, but also to be objectively documented in the large number of labor-related judgme”
Linking international entrepreneurship to uncertainty, opportunity discovery, and cognition (2010, background): “Thus, when locals begin to imitate the foreign firm, they may in fact end up with higher levels of performance, because of factors such as lower lawsuit awards ( Mezias 2002 ), but national average levels of”
A needs-driven approach to expatriate adjustment and career development: a multiple mentoring perspective (2005, background): “foreignness from operating in different countries (Hymer, 1976; Zaheer, 1995; Mezias, 2002) and is a key source of competitive advantage (Stroh and Caligiuri, 1997; Carpenter et al.”
Cross-border venture capital and new venture internationalization: An isomorphism perspective (2005, methodology): “We used various displays (Miles & Huberman, 1994) to reduce the data.”
Foreignness and exit over the life cycle of firms (2012, background): “In another study Mezias (2002) analyzed the number of labor lawsuits faced by foreign and American firms in the US courts to find that foreign firms operating in the US faced more labor suits in American courts than did their local counterparts.”
Local Density and Foreign Subsidiary Performance (2006, methodology): “Zaheer, 1999; Miller & Parkhe, 2002; Mezias, 2002; Nachum, 2003; Eden & Miller, 2004).”
Born global or born regional? Evidence from an exploratory study in the Costa Rican software industry (2009, background): “definition is in accordance with those of Oviatt and McDougall (1994) and Rennie (1993), among others.”
Asymmetry of knowledge spillovers between MNCs and host country firms (2007, result): “…can translate into an asymmetry in relative performance of foreign and local players (Zaheer, 1995; Zaheer and Mosakowski, 1997; Mezias, 2002; Miller and Parkhe, 2002), even though MNCs might be more susceptible to liability of foreignness in some settings compared with others (Nachum, 2003).”