Institution-based view of entrepreneurial internationalization
Laine, Igor (2016-11-23)
Väitöskirja
Laine, Igor
23.11.2016
Lappeenranta University of Technology
Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-335-017-5
https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-335-017-5
Tiivistelmä
This doctoral study focuses on the relationship between institutional environment and
international entrepreneurship. Although researchers have widely emphasized and
accepted the view that firms’ strategic behavior, including internationalization-based
growth strategic choices, is increasingly affected by the institutional environments in
which they operate, the recent calls for more research on the role of institutions in
international entrepreneurship have not been adequately covered. By answering the
question of what role the institutional environment plays in international
entrepreneurship, this doctoral dissertation also address the problem of why national
policies directed toward building institutional environments that are more conducive to
entrepreneurship and its internationalization can be not as efficient as expected. Four
publications included in this dissertation employed both quantitative and qualitative
methods. First, the study suggests several mediating and moderating factors to the path
between institutional environment and internationalization, thus extending our
knowledge about the focal phenomena. Secondly, the dissertation advocates a more
nuanced approach to institutional environment, where factors from each of the three
institutional dimensions may intertwine with factors from other dimensions, resulting in
an idiosyncratic impact on a dependent variable. Thirdly, by studying the impact of
domestic institutional environments on entrepreneurship and its internationalization in
Russia, the study suggests that the country’s costly efforts in its regulative system are
mitigated by resistant normative and cultural-cognitive institutions. Finally, in addition
to the impact of particular institutional factors, the study identified and investigated the
separate influence of institutional uncertainty, which happens to drive more effectual
decision-making regarding international operations of entrepreneurial firms.
international entrepreneurship. Although researchers have widely emphasized and
accepted the view that firms’ strategic behavior, including internationalization-based
growth strategic choices, is increasingly affected by the institutional environments in
which they operate, the recent calls for more research on the role of institutions in
international entrepreneurship have not been adequately covered. By answering the
question of what role the institutional environment plays in international
entrepreneurship, this doctoral dissertation also address the problem of why national
policies directed toward building institutional environments that are more conducive to
entrepreneurship and its internationalization can be not as efficient as expected. Four
publications included in this dissertation employed both quantitative and qualitative
methods. First, the study suggests several mediating and moderating factors to the path
between institutional environment and internationalization, thus extending our
knowledge about the focal phenomena. Secondly, the dissertation advocates a more
nuanced approach to institutional environment, where factors from each of the three
institutional dimensions may intertwine with factors from other dimensions, resulting in
an idiosyncratic impact on a dependent variable. Thirdly, by studying the impact of
domestic institutional environments on entrepreneurship and its internationalization in
Russia, the study suggests that the country’s costly efforts in its regulative system are
mitigated by resistant normative and cultural-cognitive institutions. Finally, in addition
to the impact of particular institutional factors, the study identified and investigated the
separate influence of institutional uncertainty, which happens to drive more effectual
decision-making regarding international operations of entrepreneurial firms.
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- Väitöskirjat [1037]