التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Paying for Legitimacy: Autocracy, Nonmarket Strategy, and the Liability of Foreignness. |
| المؤلفون: |
Kim, Jin Hyung1 (AUTHOR) jinhyung_kim@gwu.edu, Siegel, Jordan I.2 (AUTHOR) sijordan@umich.edu |
| المصدر: |
Administrative Science Quarterly. Mar2024, Vol. 69 Issue 1, p131-171. 41p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*INTERNATIONAL business enterprises, *MARKET entry, *LOBBYING, *LEGAL liability, *LOBBYISTS, *BUSINESS planning, *MARKET ideology, *ECONOMIC competition |
| مستخلص: |
Although the liability of foreignness has been shown to present real economic barriers for foreign firms in various contexts around the globe, scholars continue to debate what drives this liability in different market contexts: lack of information due to institutional distance, lack of social embeddedness, discrimination, or something else. In this study, we propose a new theory, that in corporate lobbying within the nonmarket strategy context, the liability of foreignness is driven in no small part by a values-based ideological conflict stemming from the divide between democracy and autocracy. Private-sector firms from autocratic countries face costs of illegitimacy in Washington, D.C., and professional corporate lobbyists charge such firms a fee premium, in effect, to pay for legitimacy. We conduct an empirical study of the lobbying fees charged by professional corporate lobbyists in Washington, D.C., to their domestic and foreign firm clients, and the results strongly support the predictions of our theory. We also show that the liability of foreignness in this context endures for foreign firms from autocratic countries over the 15-year length of our sample period. Offering a new theoretical perspective as well as new empirical findings regarding the liability of foreignness, our study has practical implications for managers of foreign firms and may also generalize to other market contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| قاعدة البيانات: |
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