POLITICAL PLURALISM, PUBLIC POLICIES, AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHOICES: BANKING BRANCH EXPANSION IN INDIA, 1948-2003

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Kozhikode, Rajiv Krishnan; Li, Jiatao
• 署名单位: University of Groningen; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2010.0370
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 339-359
• 关键词: JAPANESE FIRMS; MARKET; COMPETITION; strategy; panel; determinants; performance; EFFICIENCY; DISCRETION; location

摘要

Data on the expansion of 94 commercial banks in India from 1948 to 2003 were analyzed to test the proposition that political pluralism-wherein competing parties control the state and national governments of a nation-can promote business expansion. The results confirm that such political pluralism reduces the power of either government to constrain business decision making but that pluralism might at times lead to unhealthy competition between parties, harming local expansion opportunities. The data show that, in India, banks selectively exploit political pluralism to guide their expansion decisions.