Intra- and Inter-organizational Imitative Behavior: Institutional Influences on Japanese Firms' Entry Mode Choice

By J. Lu. 2002

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Export Promotion Strategy and Performance: The Role of International Experience (2011, background): “The initial conforming process is signified by imitative behaviors in which inexperienced firms mimic the conduct of existing institutions in the same market, especially in the face of high uncertainty (DiMaggio and Powell 1983; Lu 2002).”
State ownership effect on firms' FDI ownership decisions under institutional pressure: a study of Chinese outward-investing firms (2012, methodology): “Following prior studies of FDI ownership decisions and entry mode choices (Hennart & Larimo, 1998; Lu, 2002; Makino & Neupert, 2000), Journal of International Business Studies we used an equity ownership share of 95% as the cut-off between joint ownership and sole ownership structures; the foreign…”
Government Corruption and the Entry Strategies of Multinationals (2005, background): “…most part, scholars have responded to this challenge either by categorizing corrupt transactions by the parties and stakes involved (Elliott, 1997; Maitland, 2002; Rose-Ackerman, 1999) or by aggregating all categories of corrupt transactions into a single index (ICRG, 1999; Kaufmann, 1998;…”
Beyond entry mode choice: Explaining the conversion of joint ventures into wholly owned subsidiaries in the People's Republic of China (2009, background): “While extant conceptual and empirical research on entry mode choice abounds, our study contributes to the understanding of post-entry changes of foreign firms’ ownership modes in the PRC. Based on transaction cost theory and institutional theory we derived hypotheses explaining the likelihood with w”
Behind ownership decision of Chinese outward FDI: Resources and institutions (2010, background): “It is also evident that a firm’s FDI entry strategy can be influenced by previous successful entry experiences of itself and other firms in the same (or similar) institutional environment (Lu, 2002).”
A retrospective on: Institutional, cultural and transaction cost influences on entry mode choice and performance (2012, background): “Finally, Lu (2002) adds insights into the impact of institu-”
Growth and Survival of International Joint Ventures: An External-Internal Legitimacy Perspective (2006, background): “When firms establish their overseas subunits, there is a tendency for them to replicate their existing organizational features and practices in order to deal with uncertainty in the host market (Lu, 2002).”
Institutional and transaction cost influences on MNEs' ownership strategies of their affiliates: Evidence from an emerging market (2007, background): “Recently, institutional theory has emerged as an alternative approach toexplain theownership-basedentry mode strategies of foreign investors in host country markets (Brouthers, 2002; Davis, Desai, & Francis, 2000; Delios &Beamish,1999;Lu,2002; Meyer, 2001).”
Boundaries of the Firm: Insights From International Entry Mode Research (2007, background): “…1994), Japan (Cho & Padmanabhan, 2001; Delios & Beamish, 1999; Delios & Henisz, 2000; Hennart, 1991; Hennart & Park, 1994; Hennart & Reddy, 1997; Lu, 2002; Yiu & Makino, 2002), and Western Europe (Barkema & Vermeulen, 1997; K. D. Brouthers, 2002; L. E. Brouthers et al., 1999; Gronhaug &…”
The Impact of Institutional and Human Resource Distance on International Entry Strategies (2009, background): “Institutional sociology has looked at the effects of, for instance, mimetic behaviour and legitimacy (Delios et al., 2008; Kostova and Roth, 2002; Lu, 2002; Lu and Xu, 2006).”
The Impact of Institutional Reforms on Characteristics and Survival of Foreign Subsidiaries in Emerging Economies (2005, unknown): “Like trait-based imitation, outcome-based imitation is a selective mimetic process (Lu, 2002).”