Internationalization of hybrid state-owned enterprises from emerging markets: Institutional investors as enablers

Vidya Sukumara Panicker, Rajesh Srinivas Upadhyayula and Sandeep Sivakumar

Journal of Business Research, 2022, vol. 151, issue C, 409-422

Abstract: Owing to privatization and divestment, State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in many emerging markets are evolving in their form and function. SOEs, increasingly, are hybrid organizations, where the state is one of the owners along with other ownership groups such as institutional investors. Combining the resource-based view and institutional perspectives, we argue that the different ownership groups within the SOE can be instrumental in promoting/deterring the internationalization efforts of SOE. Empirical results from a sample of1310 firm year observations of 116 unique firms within a 2011–2019time-period demonstrate that stateand foreign institutional ownershipimpact SOE internationalization negativelywhereas domestic institutional ownershiphas a positive impact on SOE internationalization.Additionally, we examine interactions between differenthybrid ownership groups and find that both foreign and domestic institutional investors can offer resource advantages to enable state owners to invest in internationalization activities.This study contributes towards a deeper understanding of ownership hybridity, internationalization challenges and resource mobilization in SOEs from emerging markets.

Keywords: Emerging markets; Domesticinstitutionalownership; Foreign institutional ownership; SOE internationalization; State ownership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.07.018

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