Subsidiary Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Opportunity: An Institutional Perspective

Kim Clark and Indu Ramachandran

Journal of International Management, 2019, vol. 25, issue 1, 37-50

Abstract: A subsidiary's ability to identify opportunities in the host country and to subsequently exploit these opportunities could create competitive advantages for the Multinational Corporation. While research on subsidiary entrepreneurship has focused primarily on subsidiary-specific resources and capabilities, as well as environmental factors, the type of opportunities that the subsidiaries may find in the host environment has been underexplored. Drawing on the subsidiary entrepreneurship literature, institutional perspectives, and entrepreneurship research, this paper suggests that subsidiaries embedded in institutional contexts that are different from those of their home country have unique advantages that enable the identification of entrepreneurial opportunities. Accordingly, a theoretical framework is proposed, based on contingency perspectives on the different views of entrepreneurial opportunities in relation to business processes in the host country's institutional environment, vis-a-vis uncertainty levels and legitimacy requirements. In addition, appropriate strategic approaches are suggested, through which subsidiaries can exploit these entrepreneurial opportunities.

Keywords: Subsidiary entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial opportunity; Institutional environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2018.06.001

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