We examine how organizational ecology and the strategic choice perspective can be combined to provide more contextualized insights into how multinational corporations (MNCs) can better counter environmental pressures with evolving subnational FDI legitimacy and improve the survival likelihood of...

We examine the link between national ethical attitude and transaction cost economics (TCE) in the context of multinational corporations' (MNCs') subsidiary ownership research. By theoretically distinguishing the TCE assumptions of opportunism and bounded rationality and by linking bounded...

This paper examines the link between the long term orientation (LTO) dimension of national culture to transaction cost economics and relational exchange theory. Hypotheses were developed on the impact of LTO on multinational corporations’ (MNCs’) subsidiary ownership and expatriate staffing...

We hypothesize a U-shaped relationship between multinational corporations’ (MNCs’) subsidiary size and expatriate staffing level based on resource dependence theory. Furthermore, based on resource dependence and embeddedness / learning perspectives, the U-shaped relationship is hypothesized...

This study examines age dependence in the mortality of multinational corporations’ (MNCs’) subsidiaries by integrating various “theory fragments” of organizational ecology. Using a “nonmonotonic logic”, we hypothesize an inverted S-curve relationship between subsidiary age and...