Institutional Theory in the Study of Multinational Corporations: A Critique and New Directions

By T. Kostova, Kendall Roth, M. Dacin. 2008

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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MNEs and corruption: the impact of national institutions and subsidiary strategy (2011, background): “Indeed, Kostova et al. (2008) proposed that internal constituencies can exert stronger pressure on MNE subsidiaries than external host country constituencies.”
The Location Choice of Foreign Direct Investments: Empirical Evidence and Methodological Challenges (2017, methodology): “In contrast, the management literature has utilized institutional theory more broadly (for a full review, see Kostova et al., 2008).”
Unpacking the Institutional Complexity in Adoption of CSR Practices in Multinational Enterprises (2016, positive): “Combined with geographic, cultural, and language barriers, such conditions may prevent the formation of cohesive and shared patterns among the organizations in the MNE field and result in an inability of the organization to conform to all institutional expectations in its transnational business envi”
Legitimacy‐as‐Feeling: How Affect Leads to Vertical Legitimacy Spillovers in Transnational Governance (2014, positive): “Thus, they may have limited explanatory power when elucidating the legitimation process of TGSs and other complex forms of global organizing (Ahrne and Brunsson, 2008; Kostova et al., 2008).”
Slack resources, firm performance, and the institutional context: Evidence from privately held European firms (2017, background): “Indeed, managers in large, geographically diversified, public firms are likely to be confronted more with ―diverse, nonmonolithic, fragmented, and possibly conflicting sets of external environments‖ relative to the generally small and medium sized, private firms we study (Kostova et al., 2008: 997).”
Green Innovation and Financial Performance (2013, background): “As an extension of previous existing literature, we distinguish two important dimensions that define a national environmental institutional profile: regulatory and normative dimensions (Hoffman, 1999; Kostova et al., 2008).”
An evolutionary approach to understanding international business activity: The co-evolution of MNEs and the institutional environment (2010, positive): “Indeed, the issues raised by Kostova et al. (2008) are part of a wider shift in the study of institutions in the social sciences from a view that emphasizes institutional embeddedness to one that is focused on active agency.”