Uncertainty, Imitation, and Plant Location: Japanese Multinational Corporations, 1990-1996 Export

@article{citeulike:4536552, abstract = {In a study of a sample of 2,705 international plant location decisions by listed Japanese multinational corporations across a possible set of 155 countries in the 1990-1996 period, we use neoinstitutional theory and research on political institutions to explain organizational entry into new geographic markets. We extend neoinstitutional theory's proposition that prior decisions and actions by other organizations provide legitimization and information to a decision marked by uncertainty, showing that this effect holds when the uncertainty comes from a firm's lack of experience in a market but not when the uncertainty derives from the structure of a market's policymaking apparatus.}, author = {Henisz, Witold J. and Delios, Andrew}, citeulike-article-id = {4536552}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3094871}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/3094871}, doi = {10.2307/3094871}, issn = {00018392}, journal = {Administrative Science Quarterly}, keywords = {1990-1996, corporations, imitation, japanese, location, multinational, plant, uncertainty}, number = {3}, pages = {443--475}, posted-at = {2009-05-18 07:58:04}, priority = {3}, publisher = {Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University}, title = {Uncertainty, Imitation, and Plant Location: Japanese Multinational Corporations, 1990-1996}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3094871}, volume = {46}, year = {2001} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4536552 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4536552 N2 - In a study of a sample of 2,705 international plant location decisions by listed Japanese multinational corporations across a possible set of 155 countries in the 1990-1996 period, we use neoinstitutional theory and research on political institutions to explain organizational entry into new geographic markets. We extend neoinstitutional theory's proposition that prior decisions and actions by other organizations provide legitimization and information to a decision marked by uncertainty, showing that this effect holds when the uncertainty comes from a firm's lack of experience in a market but not when the uncertainty derives from the structure of a market's policymaking apparatus. IS - 3 JF - Administrative Science Quarterly SN - 00018392 EP - 475 TI - Uncertainty, Imitation, and Plant Location: Japanese Multinational Corporations, 1990-1996 PB - Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University VL - 46 SP - 443 KW - 1990-1996 KW - corporations KW - imitation KW - japanese KW - location KW - multinational KW - plant KW - uncertainty AU - Henisz, Witold AU - Delios, Andrew PY - 2001/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3094871 ER -