INSTITUTIONAL DISTANCE AND THE MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE

By Dean Xu, Oded Shenkar. 2002

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Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

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Foreign Location Choice: Review and Extensions (2016, positive): “…of the economic (North 1990) and sociological (DiMaggio and Powell 1983; Scott 2008) variants of institutional theories to IB has substantially mitigated this weakness and established the nexus between MNEs and institutions as one of the most robust topics within IB research (Xu and Shenkar 2002).”
Corruption Distance and FDI Flows into Latin America (2015, background): “Based on this premise, location decisions and mode of entry strategies have been analysed by taking into account the institutional distance between the home and host country (Xu & Shenkar, 2002).”
Human resource management in US subsidiaries in Europe and Australia: centralisation or autonomy? (2008, background): “context of unitary environments it is more problematic in complex environments with multiple institutional demands (Xu and Shenkar, 2002).”
Principal—Principal Conflict in the Governance of the Chinese Public Corporation (2008, background): “…foreign entrants, information difficulties are exacerbated due to the cultural and institutional distances between China and their home countries (Kogut and Singh, 1988; Xu and Shenkar, 2002), even though the Chinese stock market is now accessible to the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors.”
The Institution-Based View as a Third Leg for a Strategy Tripod. (2009, positive): “…institutional variables include institution relatedness (Peng et al., 2005), institutional distance (Chan, Isobe, & Makino, 2008; Estrin, Baghdasaryan, & Meyer, 2009; Xu & Shenkar, 2002), legal origins (La Porta et al., 2008), and corruption indexes (Cu-ervo-Cazurra & Genc, 2008; Lee & Oh, 2007).”
Some macro-data on the regionalisation/globalisation debate: a comment on the Rugman/Verbeke analysis (2007, background): “This last index widens the classification of regions adopted by Rugman and Verbeke to incorporate various elements of psychic or institutional distance, as identified by such writers as Ronen and Shenkar (1985), Shenkar (2001), Thrift (2000) and Xu and Shenkar (2002).”
Understanding Agency Problems in Headquarters-Subsidiary Relationships in Multinational Corporations: A Contextualized Model (2018, neutral): “…foreign acquisitions, managing crossborder joint ventures, achieving legitimacy across locations, and designing effective agency remedies (e.g., Gong, 2003; Kogut & Singh; Kostova & Roth, 2002; Kostova & Zaheer; Roth & O’Donnell, 1996; Tihanyi, Griffith, & Russell, 2005; Xu & Shenkar, 2002).”
Globalization and location choice: an analysis of US multinational firms in 1980 and 2000 (2007, background): “Some scholars have persuasively argued how institutional differences between home and host countries explain MNCs’ behavior (Kostova, 1999; Xu and Shenkar, 2002).”
The export performance of emerging economy firms: The influence of firm capabilities and institutional environments (2018, background): “This conversion has two important advantages: it addressed explicitly the large administrative heterogeneity within these countries (Xu & Shenkar, 2002; Busenitz, Gomez, & Spencer, 2000; Yi et al., 2013) and reduces the problems of reverse causation and measurement error (Fisman & Svensson, 2007) –…”
The Impact of Corruption on Firm Tax Compliance in Transition Economies: Whom Do You Trust? (2013, background): “The degree of institutional distance between a host and home country increases the difficulties of conducting business in a foreign country (Xu and Shenkar 2002) and understanding the differences in institutional environments is essential to effectively working across institutional differences (Gelb”