The art of rhetoric: Host country political hostility and the rhetorical strategies of foreign subsidiaries in developing economies |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Social Innovation, Mount Royal University;2. HubMeta Research Lab, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada;3. Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada;4. School of Management Fribourg (HEG-FR), University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Switzerland;1. Department of Strategic Management, Marketing and Tourism, University of Innsbruck, Karl-Rahner-Platz 3, Innsbruck 6020, Austria;2. Department of Global Business and Trade, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Welthandelsplatz 1, Vienna 1020, Austria;1. Department of Management and International Business, Florida International University College of Business, United States;2. Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, United States;3. University of Kent Business School, Kent ME4 4AG, United Kingdom;4. Faculty of Business Administration, University of Macau, Macao;5. Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Australia;6. Department of Management, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
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| Abstract: | Multinational enterprises (MNEs) often pay close attention to host country environments and prudently manage relationships with host country stakeholders. However, little attention has been paid to how the foreign subsidiaries of developed country multinational enterprises (DMNEs) communicate with host country stakeholders in developing economies. This paper investigates how host country political hostility influences DMNE subsidiaries’ rhetorical strategies. Using 485,496 Sina Weibo posts by subsidiaries of 71 DMNEs between 2010 and 2018, this paper demonstrates that political hostility has a negative influence on subsidiaries’ rhetorical emotionality and corporate social responsibility (CSR) rhetorical intensity, and has a positive effect on rhetorical clarity. Both bilateral trade and local subsidiary top executive strengthen the influence of political hostility on rhetorical emotionality and rhetorical clarity. The findings shed new light on how DMNE subsidiaries gain and maintain legitimacy in developing economies and how subsidiaries deploy post-entry rhetorical strategies as a response to host country political hostility. |
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