Institutional exceptions on global projects: a process model

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Orr, Ryan J.; Scott, W. Richard
• 署名单位: Stanford University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400370
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 562-588
• 关键词: INSTITUTIONAL THEORY; liabilities of foreignness; Cross-border investments; global projects; institutional exceptions; institutional transactions costs

摘要

This inductive study offers an examination of 23 cases in which informants from firms engaged in large-scale global projects reported unforeseen costs after failing to comprehend cognitive-cultural, normative, and/or regulative institutions in an unfamiliar host societal context. The study builds on the conceptual framework of institutional theory. The findings, which include propositions and a generic narrative model, contribute to theoretical knowledge of how institutional exceptions arise, how they are resolved, and how they typically involve three general phases: ignorance, sensemaking, and response. The findings also articulate the kinds of institutional transaction costs that an entrant incurs in each of the three phases, and the conditions that lead to the growth of these costs.