Subnational institutional environment, scale competition and MNEs’ ownership levels in transition economy: evidence from China

Wen Xiao, Jiadong Pan and Jiangang Jiang

Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2016, vol. 14, issue 3, 243-261

Abstract: This paper shows that the effect of market scale competition on the ownership levels of foreign-funded enterprises is conditioned on sub-national institutional environment in China. Analysis is based on the idea that multinational enterprises subject to the dual pressures of institutional isomorphism and competition in the host country. The provincial panel data from 2001 to 2012 is used for empirical tests. This study indicates that the weaker the legal property rights protection and legal enforcement of contracts, and the higher the opening up, the more the large foreign-funded enterprises decrease their ownership levels, whereas the negative moderating effect incurred by the reduction to government intervention in business is limited significant.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/14765284.2016.1228300

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