The impact of current and founding institutions on strength of competitive aspirations in transition economies

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Shinkle, George A.; Kriauciunas, Aldas P.
• 署名单位: Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of New South Wales Sydney
• 刊物名称: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0143-2095
• DOI: 10.1002/smj.1946
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 448-458
• 关键词: institutions; imprinting; transition economies; aspirations

摘要

Northian institutional theory argues that firms adapt to their current institutional environments. Organizational imprinting theory argues that firms will be constrained by their founding institutional environments. We explore the combined influence of these two institutional environments on the strength of competitive aspirations using a unique dataset of firms in the shifted institutional environment of Central European transition economies. Our results indicate founding institutional environments temper adaptation to current institutional environments for certain competitive aspirations and this effect increases as the size of the shift between current and founding institutional environments increases. Copyright (c) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.