INSTITUTIONAL THEORY IN THE STUDY OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS: A CRITIQUE AND NEW DIRECTIONS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Kostova, Tatiana; Roth, Kendall; Dacin, M. Tina
• 署名单位: University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; Queens University - Canada
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 994-1006
• 关键词: ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICES; emerging economies; strategies; liability; diffusion; DYNAMICS; FIRMS; TRANSFORMATION; Isomorphism; FOREIGNNESS

摘要

This paper was motivated by the growing interest of scholars of multinational corporations (MNCs) in the institutional perspective. Our review of the literature suggests that international management applications of this perspective have been dominated by a narrow set of neoinstitutional ideas. We develop a set of provocations that challenge the validity of traditional neoinstitutionalism in the context of MNCS. We then offer ideas for more novel theory building in the study of MNCs, based on integrating old and new institutionalism.