Outward foreign direct investment as escape response to home country institutional constraints

By Michael A. Witt, Arie Y. Lewin. 2007

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Culture, meaning, and institutions: Executive rationale in Germany and Japan (2009, positive): “47 causalities, path dependence, institutional interdependencies, and the complex interplay of a large number of interest groups (Redding, 2005; Witt and Lewin, 2007).”
Do cross-border mergers and acquisitions increase short-term market performance? The case of Chinese firms (2017, background): “The host country government can enhance its country’s location advantages by improving its institutions in order to attract foreign firms (Guler & Guillen, 2010; Witt & Lewin, 2007).”
Cross-border mergers and acquisitions by emerging market firms: A comparative investigation (2015, background): “Consequently, EMFs may escape by investing abroad to avoid the market constraints at home (Heeley, King, & Covin, 2006; Witt & Lewin, 2007).”
Why are companies offshoring innovation? The emerging global race for talent (2009, background): “Firms can react by, for example, escaping the institutional constraints of the country (Witt and Lewin, 2007) and responding to the emerging talent shortage by accessing talent offshore and by learning to globalize their”
What Drives New Ventures to Internationalize from Emerging to Developed Economies? (2007, background): “Conceptually, the Baidu example highlights the importance of misalignment between firm needs and home country institutional conditions that force firms to escape from their home market (Witt & Lewin, 2007).”
The Internationalization of Chinese Firms: A Critical Review and Future Research (2012, background): “As a consequence, investing overseas may be non-SOEs’ escape response to the restrictive business environment in China (Voss et al. 2010; Witt and Lewin 2007).”
The role of path dependency and managerial intentionality: a perspective on international business research (2007, background): “Witt and Lewin (2007) note that FDI strategies may reflect a MI to escape national institutional constraints.”
Do we need different frameworks to explain infant MNEs from developing countries (2012, background): “Outward FDI may also be a means to exit institutional constraints at home (Witt and Lewin 2007).”
Comparing capitalisms: understanding institutional diversity and its implications for international business (2008, background): “But whereas new institutional economics conventionally sees institutional structure as following firm strategy (e.g., firms create structures that are efficient for them), strategy is seen as being constrained by institutional structures and thereby leads to different firm behavior across institutio”
Institutional exceptions on global projects: a process model (2008, methodology): “The term deviation has been used in the institutional literature to describe the act of departing from an established norm, standard or cultural belief (Dalton, 2005; Weingast, 1995; Witt & Lewin, 2007).”
Governance Structure, Innovation and Internationalization: Evidence from India (2013, neutral): “This makes it very difficult for firms to differentiate with each other in markets where most local firms compete on commodity type of products (Witt and Lewin, 2007).”