Strategic responses to extreme institutional challenges: An MNE case study in the Palestinian mobile phone sector |
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Authors: | Sharif Alaydi Trevor Buck Yee Kwan Tang |
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Institution: | Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, University Ave, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK |
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Abstract: | Besides firm-level resources and industrial influences, firms’ strategies have been related to their institutional contexts. Empirical studies have investigated survival strategies in international environments where institutional voids, barriers and violence have had independent influences.This study is the first to analyse strategies in circumstances that combine all these negative challenges. In the Palestinian mobile phone industry, a surviving MNE has faced not only violence, voids and institutional barriers imposed by three different governments, but also the liability of foreignness and its associated uncertainties.In a highly uncertain environment, it is found that being a MNE brings benefits as well as liabilities of foreignness. Furthermore, this MNE discloses many strategic responses to institutional challenges that are associated with positive outcomes, even in a most extreme Palestinian environment that produces the most propitious circumstances for negative responses and outcomes. |
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Keywords: | Institutional context Institution-based view Institutional challenges MNE Violence Strategic responses |
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