Institutional exceptions on global projects: a process model

Ryan J Orr and W Richard Scott
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Ryan J Orr: Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
W Richard Scott: Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects, Stanford University, Stanford, USA

Journal of International Business Studies, 2008, vol. 39, issue 4, 562-588

Abstract: This inductive study offers an examination of 23 cases in which informants from firms engaged in large-scale global projects reported unforeseen costs after failing to comprehend cognitive-cultural, normative, and/or regulative institutions in an unfamiliar host societal context. The study builds on the conceptual framework of institutional theory. The findings, which include propositions and a generic narrative model, contribute to theoretical knowledge of how institutional exceptions arise, how they are resolved, and how they typically involve three general phases: ignorance, sensemaking, and response. The findings also articulate the kinds of institutional transaction costs that an entrant incurs in each of the three phases, and the conditions that lead to the growth of these costs. Journal of International Business Studies (2008) 39, 562–588. doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400370

Date: 2008
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