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JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT
Volume 28, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2022.100935
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Institutional voids; Institutional transplantation; State capture; Governmentality; Institutional braiding; Selective enforcement
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Institutions play a vital role in solving collective action problems and facilitating functioning markets. The institutional voids literature has provided a dynamic research agenda for international business scholarship. This perspective article leverages studies from political science, development economics, legal studies, and anthropology to expose hidden assumptions, propose new research directions, and offer theoretical constructs for studying institutional voids.
Institutions are vital for solving collective action problems and enabling functioning markets. Based on this notion, the institutional voids literature has offered a dynamic research agenda for international business scholarship. In this perspective article, we leverage work from political science, development economics, legal studies, and anthropology to: (a) expose hidden assumptions about institutional voids in the management literature; (b) propose new directions for research based on our revised assumptions; and (c) provide direction-specific theoretical constructs from other social sciences to stimulate theory-building and empirical inquiry into institutional voids. We develop a framework that identifies four revised assumptions about institutional voids research that we derive from current studies and elaborate on eight theoretical constructs from other social sciences that exemplify the revised assumptions and generate future research questions for international business scholars.
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