Environmental innovation in foreign subsidiaries: the role of home-ecological institutions, subsidiary establishment mode and post-establishment experience
Environmental innovation in foreign subsidiaries: the role of home-ecological institutions, subsidiary establishment mode and post-establishment experience
In this study, we argue that foreign subsidiaries of multinational enterprises (MNEs) vary in terms of their engagement in environmental innovation depending on the strength of the MNE’s home-ecological institutions. We also propose that the manifestation of this home-institutional effect varies depending on the choice of the subsidiary establishment mode (acquisition vs. greenfield) and over time based on the subsidiaries’ host experience. We test our hypotheses using a sample of foreign subsidiaries in Spain over the period 2003-2015. Our results support the home-institutional effect on subsidiary-level environmental innovation as well as the moderating effects of the subsidiary establishment mode and host experience.
environmental innovation; regulatory institutions; multinational enterprises; institutional theory; establishment mode
Konara, Palitha
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Lopez, Carmen
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Shirodkar, Vikrant
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1 October 2021
Konara, Palitha
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Lopez, Carmen
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Shirodkar, Vikrant
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Konara, Palitha, Lopez, Carmen and Shirodkar, Vikrant
(2021)
Environmental innovation in foreign subsidiaries: the role of home-ecological institutions, subsidiary establishment mode and post-establishment experience.
Journal of World Business, 56 (6), [101261].
(doi:10.1016/j.jwb.2021.101261).
Abstract
In this study, we argue that foreign subsidiaries of multinational enterprises (MNEs) vary in terms of their engagement in environmental innovation depending on the strength of the MNE’s home-ecological institutions. We also propose that the manifestation of this home-institutional effect varies depending on the choice of the subsidiary establishment mode (acquisition vs. greenfield) and over time based on the subsidiaries’ host experience. We test our hypotheses using a sample of foreign subsidiaries in Spain over the period 2003-2015. Our results support the home-institutional effect on subsidiary-level environmental innovation as well as the moderating effects of the subsidiary establishment mode and host experience.
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Accepted/In Press date: 9 August 2021
e-pub ahead of print date: 10 September 2021
Published date: 1 October 2021
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Keywords:
environmental innovation; regulatory institutions; multinational enterprises; institutional theory; establishment mode
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Local EPrints ID: 451338
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/451338
ISSN: 1090-9516
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Palitha Konara
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Carmen Lopez
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Vikrant Shirodkar
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