Institutional differences as sources of growth differences

Ali, Abdiweli M.

doi:10.1007/bf02298493

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“…This research has found that countries with a higher level of economic freedom are generally less corrupt. Furthermore, in regard to economic development, Mauro (1995), Husted (1999), and Ali (2003) have provided empirical support that countries with higher levels of economic development tend to have lower levels of corruption.…”

Section: Economic Freedom and Developmentmentioning

confidence: 96%

Corruption and the role of information

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Several studies have explored how certain economic and cultural variables affect a country's corruption level. This study extends previous research by not only considering these variables, but also taking into account the impact that information and communication technology can have on corruption. The results indicate that the greater the access to information, the lower the corruption levels. Therefore bridging the digital disparity across countries can also serve to lessen national corruption levels. Journal of International Business Studies (2007) 38, 320–332. doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400262

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Section: Economic Freedom and Developmentmentioning

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“…We adopt an institutional argument similar to that of North (1981) or Hayek (1960) and recently popularized by the World Bank: economic growth and development are the outcome of market and other economic shocks, and of government institutions and policy. Several studies (Knack and Keefer 1995;Mauro 1995;Hall and Jones 1999;Rodrik 1999;Goldsmith 1999;Ali 2003a) show that the primary causality runs from institutions and policies to corruption and to income, rather than the other way around. While governments cannot select a vector of economic shocks, they can select policies.…”

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“…Developing countries seem caught in a world with poor institutions and much corruption, while developed countries have better institutions and less corruption (Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson 2001;Ali 2003aAli , 2003b. These differences in institutions and corruption lead to differences in business venturing activity.…”

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Corruption's Effect on Business Venturing Within the United States

Mitchell

Campbell

2009

American J Econ Sociol

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In developing countries with high levels of corruption, people are often forced into small‐business venturing or survivalist entrepreneurship because larger, more efficient firms do not exist. In developed countries, however, low corruption means that people choose entrepreneurship as a better means of innovating. In this article we use federal convictions of state and local officials and the Small Business Administration's firm formation data to test whether corruption within the United States forces some people into business venturing. We find that business venturing within the United States is caused in part by corruption.

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“…The macroeconomic data in our analysis came from the World Bank and the United Nations UniversityComparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS, 2008). The Regional Institutional Diversity data came from the Business Environment Risk Intelligence (BERI) (e.g., Ali, 2003;Chong & Zanforlin, 2000;Knack & Keefer, 1995) We then proceeded by selecting the sample of firms based in the Triad nations. To ensure the firms were sufficiently independent to determine their own strategy, we excluded firms in which another entity held more than 25% ownership, as provided by OSIRIS (Bartram, Brown, How, & Verhoeven, 2007;Chen, 2007).…”

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Home-region orientation in international expansion strategies

2013

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Despite the emerging consensus that most multinational enterprises (MNEs) are regional, systematic theory explaining regionalization is conspicuously absent, and empirical findings on its implications for MNE performance remain mixed. Drawing on internalization theory, we suggest that technological advantage and institutional diversity determine firms' home-region orientation (HRO), and we posit a simultaneous relationship between HRO and performance. We apply insights from the firm heterogeneity literature of international trade to explain the influence of technology on HRO. We predict a negative and nonlinear impact of technological advantage on HRO driven by increasing returns logic, and a negative impact of institutional diversity on HRO driven by search and deliberation costs. We find empirical support for our model using simultaneous equations methodology on longitudinal data on Triad-based MNEs. Performance significantly reduces HRO, but HRO does not have a significant effect on performance.

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Institutional differences as sources of growth differences

Cited by 42 publications

References 26 publications

Corruption and the role of information

Corruption and the role of information

Corruption's Effect on Business Venturing Within the United States

Home-region orientation in international expansion strategies

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