The Action Situation and Behavioral Patterns: A Quantitative Approach

Moritz Kappler
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Moritz Kappler: German University of Administrative Sciences

Chapter Chapter 6 in Western Multinational Corporations in Latin America, 2022, pp 197-266 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter carries out an in-depth quantitative study scrutinizing Western MNCs’ particular conduct in the Latin American host countries. On that account, a newly developed comprehensive survey—covering all five VoC institutional domains—is carried out among top-level decision-makers in both MNCs’ Latin American foreign subsidiaries and home country headquarters. This unprecedented primary data is used for in-depth statistical analyses applying various forms of regression, variance, and exploratory factor analyses. Strong evidence is found that, indeed, foreign subsidiaries partly behave according to MNCs’ home country institutions, thus showing behavioral contradiction in the host country with the strongest impact on educational practices. Furthermore, this study is the first one that is able to find behavioral complementarity in the context of alien-to-the-system practices in an unsupportive institutional environment.

Keywords: Action situation; Institutional duality; Behavioral contradiction; Quantitative analysis; Elite survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-93805-5_6

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