The MNC as an agent of change for host-country institutions: FDI and corruption

By C. Kwok, Solomon A. Tadesse. 2006

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Subfields: Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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Location and the multinational enterprise: John Dunning's thoughts on receiving the Journal of International Business Studies 2008 Decade Award (2009, background): “…variety of home-country institu tions (e.g., competition and innovating policy); of the transfer of ISO standards, and of anti corruption measures (Kwok & Tadesse, 2006); of the content and quality of corporate social responsibility (CSR) (Husted & Allen, 2006); and of some asset augmenting…”
Understanding corruption and firm responses in cross-national firm-level surveys (2010, background): “While corruption decreases investment, it can also lead firms to adapt to their environment, which results in economic inefficiencies (Kwok & Tadesse, 2006).”
When does FDI matter? The roles of local institutions and ethnic origins of FDI (2013, background): “Complementing the existing literature that investigated the role of institutions at the national level (Antweiler et al., 2001; Kwok & Tadesse, 1996), we capture the disparate, overlapping, and multifaceted development of institutions within an emerging economy, and confirm the effect of such…”
Formal and Informal Corruption Environments and Multinational Enterprise Social Irresponsibility (2015, neutral): “To aid in interpretation and remain consistent with prior corruption studies (Davis and Ruhe, 2003; Kwok and Tadesse, 2006; Robertson and Watson, 2004), country CPI scores were reverse coded and rescaled by multiplying each country’s score by −1 (to reverse code) and adding +11 to each (to create a ”
How do bankruptcy laws affect entrepreneurship development around the world (2011, methodology): “While we can take account of measures such as origin of law and rule of law (La Porta et al., 1997), we are unable to capture the various levels of development of bankruptcy laws among the countries over time. This is an important limitation that future research may need to overcome. Since the Doing”
Corporate Social Responsibility and Different Stages of Economic Development: Singapore, Turkey, and Ethiopia (2009, background): “Multinational firms can act as agents of change in host countries in reducing corruption and leading to better business practice (Kwok and Tadesse, 2006).”
Why and how FDI stocks are a biased measure of MNE affiliate activity (2010, neutral): “…characteristics (e.g., Buckley, Clegg, Cross, Liu, Voss, & Zheng, 2007; Grosse & Trevino, 1996; Habib & Zurawicki, 2002; Sethi, Guisinger, Phelan, & Berg, 2003); and (3) how MNE affiliate activity affects various aspects of host-country development (e.g., Kwok & Tadesse, 2006; Li & Liu, 2005).”
MNC Strategic Responses to Ethical Pressure: An Institutional Logic Perspective (2011, background): “For example, Lounsbury (2007) identifies two competing logics (i.”
Why Firms Engage in Corruption: A Top Management Perspective (2009, background): “The influence of perceived social obligation can be particularly high in countries where government officials are known to depend for their livelihood on various forms of illegal payments they receive for facilitating government actions (Ades and Di Tella, 1999; Kwok and Tadesse, 2006; Svensson, 200”