This is unfortunate, as work on informal institutions could help enrich IB work not only across sub-disciplines, but also that connects sub-disciplines. This is why we embraced this definition for this SI, albeit the Special Issue call for paper submissions welcomed studies that built on different institutional traditions. It could embrace the notion of bounded rationality, or that actors attempt to act rationally but do so with limited information and knowledge, while also embracing the notion that actors often act based on their gut or emotions, and that when information is lacking they will tend toward isomorphism as a means to attain legitimacy. Jepperson, R. L. 1991. Law and the structures of social action. These are the values-based framework (e.g., Bond, 1987, 1988; Hofstede, 1980, 2001; House, 1998; House et al., 2004; Realo, Allik, & Vadi, 1997, 2002; Rokeach, 1973; Schwartz, 1992, 1994; Triandis, Bontempo, Villareal, Asai, & Lucca, 1988) and the cognitions-based framework (e.g., Casson, 1983; DiMaggio, 1997; Lehman, Chiu, & Schaller, 2004; Markus & Kitayama, 1991; Markus, Kitayama, & Heiman, 1996; Miller, 1997; Sewell, 1992, 1999; Sperber & Hirschfeld, 1999; Swidler, 1986). In Beitbridge, on the border with South Africa, furious cross-border traders set fire to a warehouse in protest against import bans recently imposed. But this is only the beginning as there is so much more work to be done on the topic, as per the areas for future research identified above. In S. Ghoshal, & D. E. Westney (Eds. The new comparative economics. Another important logic that is common to the three theories is the process of diffusion (Arthur, 1994b; Coleman, Katz, & Menzel, 1966; Strang & Meyer, 1993). A the institutional framework, governing a particular context is made up of formal and informal institutions governing individual and firm behavior. American Journal of Sociology, 91(3): 481510. Introduction The impressive worldwide growth of foreign direct investment (FDI) has resulted in multinational enterprises (MNEs) becoming important players in both developed and emerging markets ( Dunning and Lundan, 2008 ). The literature has also examined the relationship between informal institutions and factors such as absorptive capacity and knowledge acquisition (e.g., Dau, 2010, 2015, 2016). Zhou, K. Z., Gao, G. Y., & Zhao, H. 2017. Hall, P. A., & Soskice, D. W. 2001. Later, we will discuss that this can serve not only as a means to learn how to better incorporate institutional work to help strengthen the IB literature, but also to develop ways for IB to contribute to institutional work beyond an IB audience. Finding universal dimensions of individual variation in multicultural studies of values: The Rokeach and Chinese Value Surveys. Bond, M. 1988. Theory and Society, 22: 487511. Journal of Management Studies, 46(7): 11711196. Third, based on the preceding two points, informal institutions can serve different purposes vis--vis their formal counterparts. They are created, communicated and enforced through channels of generally accepted official organizations (courts, legislatures, bureaucracies) and state-enforced rules (constitutions, laws, regulations). 1998. Miller, J. They can also exist at the department level within a company. In addition, OI work often puts more emphasis on the Normative and Cultural-Cognitive pillars than on the Regulative pillar (Campbell, 2004). Toward an eclectic theory of international production: Some empirical tests. 2018. Values against violence: Institutional change in societies dominated by organized crime. First, it enriches institutional theory and innovation research by establishing a framework that encompasses multidimensional, formal, and informal institutional forces, with a focus on their independent and joint impacts on firms' innovation decisions and performance. Lehman, D. R., Chiu, C. Y., & Schaller, M. 2004. 1993. Does market-oriented institutional change in an emerging economy make business-group-affiliated multinationals perform better? Overcoming the liability of outsidership for emerging market MNEs: A capability-building perspective. Shleifer, A., & Vishny, R. W. 1998. IB research has also focused on other informal institutions, such as social trust and guanxi, which can be important market differentiators, regardless of the formal institutions in place (Chua et al., 2009; Garrone, Piscitello, & D'Amelio, 2019; Kim & Li, 2014; Kshetri, 2015; Liu, Xia, Jiangyong, & Lin, 2019; Lu et al., 2018). Emerging . The transaction cost economics (TCE) theory of trading favors. Fourth, as a result of the points above, the mechanisms and effects of formal and informal institutions can range from being very similar to being vastly diverse. Learning across geographic space: Pro-market reforms, multinationalization strategy, and profitability. This displays how little actual work has been done on informal institutions and IB, indicating a clear gap and area for future research. Journal of Business Ethics, 57(3): 255268. The impact of communist norms and conventions, 19982004. Big questions, grand challenges, and the future of IB scholarship. Furthermore, by providing a review of the literature on informal institutions and IB, as well as a summary of the SI papers, it shows what has been done by past work and how the articles in this SI add to that conversation. 2004. International Business Review, 28(1): 104118. (International Business - IB) , IB, , , IB , , , , , IB , . Li, J., & Hambrick, D. C. 2005. We bring this discussion to the IB literature in order to show how IB research fits into these perspectives and can contribute to this literature, as well as how informal institutions fit into each view. Sewell, W. 1999. 15 Informal International Lawmaking as a Panacea in the Absence of Regime Focus? Perrow, C. 1986. IB work on informal institutions in this tradition could thus examine how mechanisms of efficiency and legitimacy interact in explaining firm behavior. House, R. J., Hanges, P. J., Javidan, M., Dorfman, P. W., & Gupta, V. Eden, L. 2010. Witt, M. A., & Redding, G. 2013. Research in IB on the different processes of informal institutional change and how they relate to the processes of formal institutional change is an area that has received scant attention and that could lead to important advances in the field. By developing a novel measure of informal institutions, namely the Family Business Legitimacy Index (FBLI), this paper can lead to significant future IB research on informal institutions and family business. This belies the importance of incorporating informal institutions more squarely into institutional work in IB. Varieties of new institutionalism: A critical appraisal. In the last column of Table1, we aim at providing some of the elements that could help move us in that direction. (Eds.). Business History, 60(SI5): 728753. For instance, instead of seeing them as opposing underlying assumptions, theory could be developed for how the twin forces of profit-maximization and legitimacy-maximization create conflicting forces that lead to cognitive compromise. Are indigenous approaches to achieving influence in business organizations distinctive? (Eds.). Another relevant area of research is that of non-market strategy (Baron, 1995), which refers to a firms concerted pattern of actions to improve its performance by managing the institutional or societal context of economic competition (Mellahi, Frynas, Sun, & Siegel, 2015: 143). In this section, we first examine attempts in the literature at large and in the IB literature to combine elements from the three institutional frameworks, and then propose steps to move toward this reconciliation that can help enrich work on both formal and informal institutions. Godlewska, M. 2019. Ideas and foreign policy: Beliefs, institutions, and political change. Principal-principal conflicts under weak institutions: A study of corporate takeovers in China. Keig, D. L., Brouthers, L. E., & Marshall, V. B. Institutions are social rules that serve as guidelines of acceptable and unacceptable behavior (Helmke & Levitsky, 2004, 2006; North, 1990, 1994, 2005). New York: Norton. Given the clear distinction made between formal and informal institutions in the definitions for this perspective, it has also facilitated greater work on the latter (e.g., Gao, Yang, Huang, Gao, & Yang, 2018; Kshetri, 2018; Makhmadshoev, Ibeh, & Crone, 2015; Sartor & Beamish, 2014; Sun, Chen, Sunny, & Chen, 2019). Formal and Informal Institutions The main difference between formal and informal institutions is that the former are written or codified while the latter are not (North, 1990, 2005 ). It is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs (Schein, 1985: 67; see also, Hofstede, 1980, 1994; House, Hanges, Javidan, Dorfman, & Gupta, 2004; Schein, 2004; Tung & Verbeke, 2010). Towards an institution-based view of business strategy. Norths definition of institutions is as follows: Institutions are the rules of the game in a society or, more formally, are the humanly devised constraints that shape human interaction (North, 1990: 3). The role of the state in the economy. National cultures and corporate cultures. 2010. Institutions (singular: institution) are humanly devised structures of rules and norms that shape and constrain individual behavior. Strang, D., & Meyer, J. W. 1993. Markets and hierarchies, analysis and antitrust implications: A study in the economics of internal organization. In E. T. Higgins, & A. W. Kruglanski (Eds. Medical innovation: A diffusion study. Towards a renaissance in international business research? Harmonizing Europe: nation-states within the Common Market. This focus on micro-level analysis lends itself well for research on institutions and firms, which helps explain why this perspective has taken root in business academia. International Business Review, 26(2): 288302. (Eds.). Strategic Management Journal, 18(9): 697713. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. An institution-based view of global IPR history. 2014. New York: Free Press. Part of Springer Nature. Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Given the importance of context in IB, the literature has increasingly considered the institutional environment, instead of studying firm behavior in a vacuum (e.g., Chacar & Vissa, 2005; Chacar, Newburry, & Vissa, 2010; Dau, 2012, 2013, 2018; Eden, 2010; Gaur, Ma, & Ding, 2018; Kostova, 1996, 1997; Kostova, Roth, & Dacin, 2008; Li, 2013; Li & Qian, 2013; Xie & Li, 2018). New York: Cambridge University Press. As with RCI, OI is also multidisciplinary, with scholars from different fields working from this framework, particularly contributing to fields such as international relations (e.g., Finnemore, 1996; Jepperson, Wendt, & Katzenstein, 1996; Katzenstein, 1996) and international business (e.g., Kostova & Roth, 2002; Muralidharan & Pathak, 2017; Oliver, 1997; Stephan, Uhlaner, & Stride, 2015; Xu & Shenkar, 2002). Public Choice, 139(3): 371387. Institutionalized organizations: Formal structure as myth and ceremony. A brief history of GLOBE. OI can be seen as an over-socialized perspective because behavior is largely determined by the institutional environment, by the logic of appropriateness, by isomorphic pressures, and other related logics (DiMaggio & Powell, 1983; Meyer & Rowan, 1977; Powell & DiMaggio, 1991; Scott, 1995). International Studies of Management & Organization, 17(1): 3448. 2018. Journal of World Business, 53(3): 403414. We would encourage further work on emerging and developing countries in regions such as Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, among others; as well as comparative studies across different parts of the world. Cao et al., (2018: 304) state that national culture is an important aspect of informal institutions. Institutions can also be conceptualized at the family level, as typically informal or unwritten norms within families tend to develop and evolve over time. International Business Review, 24(1): 3342. An important area for future research is to develop additional measures and indices of informal institutions that are squarely built on an institutional framework. The born global firm: A challenge to traditional internationalization theory. An anthropological approach to understanding the process of legitimation: An examination of Major League Baseball emergence. The new institutionalism in political science. Notre Dame, IN: Kellogg Institute for International Studies. b. 2005. Edwards, T., Sanchez-Mangas, R., Jalette, P., Lavelle, J., & Minbaeva, D. 2016. 2003. Granovetter defines institutions as follows: Social institutions are sets of persistent patterns defining how some specified collection of social actions are and should be carried out (Granovetter, 2017: 136). It focuses on three mechanisms of diffusion or isomorphic pressures. Schneider, B. R. 2004. Business politics and the state in twentieth-century Latin America. The other paper, entitled Public sentiment is everything: Host country public sentiment toward home country and acquisition ownership during institutional transition, by Yiu, Wan, Chen, and Tian, examines informal institutions in the context of ownership in foreign acquisitions. ), The Handbook of experiential learning in international business: 6590. Dau, L. A. Venture capital as an innovation ecosystem engineer in an emerging market. A model of rhetorical legitimation: The structure of communication and cognition underlying institutional maintenance and change. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. A cross-national investigation of IPO activity: The role of formal institutions and national culture. It also outlines efforts to reconcile the different institutional traditions and how IB can play a critical role in this respect. The new institutionalism in organizational analysis (Vol. a. Makhmadshoev, D., Ibeh, K., & Crone, M. 2015. Perspectives on Politics, 2(4): 725740. Beyond continuity: Institutional change in advanced political economies. Journal of International Business Studies, 51(4): 467497. RCI would be considered an under-socialized perspective because social relationships are not given as much importance in its theoretical models. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Examining the role of informal institutions in attaining legitimacy is an important area that some of the SI papers tackle, as we discuss below. The idea that institutions both constrain and enable refers to how institutions provide the boundaries and structure within which actors can operate. After a rigorous review process, ten papers were accepted. In situations where formal constraints are unclear, informal constraints will play a larger role in reducing uncertainty. Golesorkhi et al., (2019: 105) state that informal institutions consist of culture. Similarly, future work may examine whether formal institutions may predominate at certain levels (e.g., written laws and regulations at the national level), while informal institutions do so at other levels (e.g., unwritten norms of acceptable practice within a business group or a family firm). 2016. Structure and change in economic history. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers. Cao, Z., Li, Y., Jayaram, J., Liu, Y., & Lumineau, F. 2018. For example, managers will tend to be trained in similar universities which will lead them to be more similar than not. The performance impact of informal and formal institutional differences in cross-border alliances. Furthermore, it also embraces the logic of the process of diffusion (Djelic, 1998; Duina, 1999). Esta editorial introduce la literatura acadmica sobre las instituciones informales y los negocios internacionales, as como este nmero especial. 'Formal and Informal institutions shape the conduct of international business.' Discuss the following using illustrative examples: a) What are the main formal and informal types of institutions an international business needs to analyse when looking to do business in a country? There are typically also more evident repercussions of failing to follow such constraints, which may or may not be fully enforced in different societies, making them more salient for social actors. (7 marks) b) Describe, using . Journal of International Business Studies, 41 (8) (2010 . The article finds that public sentiment in the host country toward the MNEs home country impacts the level of acquisitions by that firm in that host country. Kim, H., Kim, H., & Hoskisson, R. E. 2010. Firm resources and sustainable competitive advantage. Interorganizational relations in industrial systems: A network approach compared with the transaction-cost approach. Journal of Management, 39(2): 531566. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. b) Describe and critically assess the role of SWOT analysis . Fainshmidt, S., Judge, W. Q., Aguilera, R. V., & Smith, A. Hitt et al., (2016: 60) refer to informal institutions (e.g., culture). Asian business systems: Institutional comparison, clusters and implications for varieties of capitalism and business systems theory. To help address these issues, we provide a brief overview of the three institutional frameworks. It then reviews the literature on the three main institutional traditions, explaining for each the role of informal institutions, and connecting them to the IB literature and Special Issue articles. 2016. Coleman, J. S., Katz, E., & Menzel, H. 1966. True. Table1 summarizes the discussion, by displaying the differences and areas of commonality between the three paradigms. Culture, leadership and organizations: The GLOBE study of 62 societies. Buckley, P., & Casson, M. 1976. Informal institutions and international business: Toward an integrative research agenda. The recent literature on the impact of institutions on development has largely concentrated on the impact that institutions have on economic growth. AND CLOSING FORMAL AND INFORMAL EMAILS AND LETTERS is approachable in our digital library an online admission to it is set as public . Institutional conditions for diffusion. Learn more in: Entrepreneurial Re-Entry Post an Economic Crisis. The logic of appropriateness. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-022-00527-5, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-022-00527-5. Why focused strategies may be wrong for emerging markets. Xie, Z., & Li, J. Work in sociology also often focuses on the societal level, which may or may not be equivalent to the national level. Book Integrated strategy: Market and nonmarket components. New York: Oxford University Press. Su, Z., Peng, M. W., & Xie, E. 2016. This definition thus explicitly incorporates formal and informal institutions (North, 1990; Rutherford, 1996). First, formal and informal institutions may range in the degree to which they are convergent or divergent with each other in their outcomes. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. American Journal of Sociology, 102(6): 17021723. A full development of course would require a much longer treatment, so here we simply provide some suggestions for how this conversation could move forward. They all argue that institutions are embedded in social structures (Campbell, 2004). We encourage additional work in these areas. Institutional theory in the study of multinational corporations: A critique and new directions. Culture and basic psychological principles. . One is formal and well- organized. ), business enterprises (e.g., MNEs, small and medium enterprises, non-profit enterprises, etc. The roots of this perspective can be traced back to an older version of the institutional perspective dating back to at least the early 20th century and the work of Weber, Marx, and others. Emerging economies and institutional quality: Assessing the differential effects of institutional distances on ownership strategy. Knight, J. Analytic narratives. The Interplay Between Formal and Informal Institutions in Projects: A Social Network Analysis - Hongdi Wang, Weisheng Lu, Jonas Sderlund, Ke Chen, 2018 4.946 5-Year Impact Factor: 4.883 SUBMIT PAPER Restricted access Research article First published online July 17, 2018 B. The concept of culture. The former is similar to the level of analysis of the other two perspectives. Journal of European Public Policy, 4(1): 1836. More importantly, because institutional and cultural frameworks arose largely independently from different disciplinary and ontological traditions, their underlying assumptions, boundary conditions, and logics are often incompatible. The three main traditions can be further broken down into different research strands (e.g., Aguilera & Grgaard, 2019). Specifically, this editorial teases out the definitions of institutions, formal institutions, and informal institutions, and clarifies how they differ from organizations and culture. Institutional influences on SME exporters under divergent transition paths: Comparative insights from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Cultures consequences: International differences in work-related values. Coleman, J. S. 1990. New York: Columbia University Press.
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