Legitimacy, Interest Group Pressures, and Change in Emergent Institutions: The Case of Foreign Investors and Host Country Governments

By W. Henisz, Bennet A. Zelner. 2005

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

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Institutional exceptions on global projects: a process model (2008, background): “…of International Business Studies UN CO RR EC TE D PR OO F domestic or multinational entity (Henisz, 2003); whether the firm is affiliated with a business group (Khanna & Palepu, 2000); and whether the firm brings distinctive knowledge or has ties to powerful allies (Henisz & Zelner, 2005).”
Capabilities and strategic entrepreneurship in public organizations (2013, background): “…is also beset with uncertainty, bounded rationality, asset speciﬁcity, and opportunism, which can provide a transaction (organizational) cost explanation of government failure that complements public choice approaches (Datta-Chaudhuri, 1990; Henisz and Zelner, 2005; Mueller, 2003; Wolf, 1979).”
Comparing capitalisms: understanding institutional diversity and its implications for international business (2008, background): “For example, MNEs engage in direct political pressure to change institutions and suggest diverse patterns of change based on the interactions of MNEs with diverse political systems (Henisz & Zelner, 2005).”
The New Political Role of Business in a Globalized World – A Review of a New Perspective on CSR and its Implications for the Firm, Governance, and Democracy (2011, unknown): “There is an emerging discussion on the The New Political Role of Business in a Globalized World 32 impact of globalization on legitimacy (Boddewyn 1995; Henisz and Zelner 2005).”
Institutional Reforms and Investor Reactions to CSR Announcements: Evidence from an Emerging Economy (2009, unknown): “Also, as emergent institutions enter their mature phase, they gain a cognitively based legitimacy that weakens institutional risks for all investors (Henisz and Zelner, 2005).”
Toward a Theory of Public Entrepreneurship (2010, background): “Public entrepreneurship, as we define it below, is both enabled and constrained by a political system and institutional context (Henisz & Zelner, 2005; Maguire, Hardy & Lawrence, 2004).”
POLITICAL CAPABILITIES, POLICY RISK, AND INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT STRATEGY: EVIDENCE FROM THE GLOBAL ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION INDUSTRY † (2010, background): “sufficient pressure on government officials to initiate or maintain favorable public policies ( Henisz and Zelner, 2005 ).”
Public-Private Institutions as Catalysts of Upgrading in Emerging Market Societies (2009, background): “This enabling and constraining nature of embeddedness resonates strongly in emerging market countries (Spicer, McDermott, & Kogut, 2000) and especially in Latin America, where societies are often noted for their weak institutions and social capital (Henisz & Zelner, 2005).”
Risk and the strategy of foreign location choice in regulated industries (2008, background): “Research has documented that technological or marketing skills are not as important in regulated industries as the ability to deal with governments and regulators (Henisz, 2003; Henisz and Zelner, 2005; Lyles and Steensma, 1996).”