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Raising or folding the bet? Institutional dynamics, family involvement, and the mixed gamble of internationalization

Raising or folding the bet? Institutional dynamics, family involvement, and the mixed gamble of... Recognizing that developing economies experience various speeds of reforms and reversals, we investigate how such dynamic institutional changes influence whether firms continue expanding or begin receding from abroad, after having already internationalized. In so doing, we extend the mixed gamble perspective by showing how external institutions impact firms' mixed gamble calculus, and especially that of family versus nonfamily firms. As a result of firms' assessment of potential gains and losses in current versus prospective wealth, the speed of reforms increases while the speed of reversals decreases firms' internationalization scale. These asymmetric effects are further attenuated for firms with higher levels of family involvement. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Thunderbird International Business Review Wiley

Raising or folding the bet? Institutional dynamics, family involvement, and the mixed gamble of internationalization

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Wiley
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© 2022 Wiley Periodicals LLC.
ISSN
1096-4762
eISSN
1520-6874
DOI
10.1002/tie.22275
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Abstract

Recognizing that developing economies experience various speeds of reforms and reversals, we investigate how such dynamic institutional changes influence whether firms continue expanding or begin receding from abroad, after having already internationalized. In so doing, we extend the mixed gamble perspective by showing how external institutions impact firms' mixed gamble calculus, and especially that of family versus nonfamily firms. As a result of firms' assessment of potential gains and losses in current versus prospective wealth, the speed of reforms increases while the speed of reversals decreases firms' internationalization scale. These asymmetric effects are further attenuated for firms with higher levels of family involvement.

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Thunderbird International Business ReviewWiley

Published: Jul 1, 2022

Keywords: change in internationalization scale; China; developing economies; dynamic institution‐based view; family involvement; mixed gamble of internationalization; speed of reforms; speed of reversals

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