In this study, we integrate resource dependence theory and agencytheory to argue that state ownership has a dual (inducement and constraint) effect onemerging market firms’ export performance. Building on this inducement-constraintframework, we hypothesize a non-linear relationship between...

Can domestic political capital be transferable to more or less similar institutional contexts abroad? Motivated by contradictory results in two streams of research, this study seeks to combine the insights from two theoretical arguments and conceptualize the role of domestic political ties in...

We propose that home country institutional environment shapes emerging market firms’ foreign expansion. We argue that better-developed home country institutional environment promotes emerging market firms’ expansion to foreign markets more advanced than the home country, while institutional...