Studies have demonstrated that foreign firms locate where immigrants from their home countries reside and suggested that doing so can improve performance. We argue that, to properly assess how immigrants impact the performance of co-national firms, research must account for heterogeneity in how...

Research shows that firms tend to expand into foreign locations with sizeable co-ethnic communities. Yet many cases exist in which the ethnic community influences the investment choice of the same firm in one location but not in another. We offer an institutional lens to explain this...