Litigations with the home State and internationalization

IF 4.6 Q2 MATERIALS SCIENCE, BIOMATERIALS
Laura M. Fernández-Méndez, Esteban García-Canal, R. García-García
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Purpose This paper aims to investigate whether Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) can be driven by the creative compliance knowledge that firms gather in their home country through litigations with the government. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on the knowledge-based view and organizational learning theory to argue that there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between experience in litigating with the home State and a firm’s level of FDI. The authors test this hypothesis using negative binomial regressions on a sample of Spanish listed firms for the period between 1986 and 2008. Findings The findings of this study confirm the hypothesized inverted U-shaped relationship between a firm’s experience in litigating with the home State and its FDI levels. Firms seem to face an exploration–exploitation dilemma regarding their compliance with domestic regulation. Once they have accumulated a certain amount of creative compliance knowledge, it would be better for them to exploit it both domestically and internationally in the form of creative compliance routines, instead of continuing to push the limits of regulation. Originality/value Firms willing to explore the gray areas of the law are usually forced to litigate with the State. As a result, they develop creative compliance knowledge that they can incorporate into their legal routines and capabilities so that they can later exploit it in foreign countries. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first paper that attempts to understand the influence of creative compliance knowledge on a firm’s international investments.
与本国的诉讼和国际化
目的本文旨在调查外国直接投资(FDI)是否可以由企业通过与政府的诉讼在本国收集的创造性合规知识驱动。设计/方法论/方法作者利用基于知识的观点和组织学习理论,认为与母国的诉讼经验与企业的外国直接投资水平之间存在倒U型关系。作者对1986年至2008年期间西班牙上市公司的样本进行了负二项回归,检验了这一假设。在遵守国内法规方面,企业似乎面临着勘探和开发的困境。一旦他们积累了一定数量的创造性合规知识,最好在国内外以创造性合规惯例的形式加以利用,而不是继续突破监管的限制。创意/价值愿意探索法律灰色地带的公司通常被迫向国家提起诉讼。因此,他们发展了创造性的合规知识,可以将这些知识融入他们的法律程序和能力中,以便以后在外国利用这些知识。据作者所知,这是第一篇试图了解创造性合规知识对公司国际投资的影响的论文。
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ACS Applied Bio Materials
ACS Applied Bio Materials Chemistry-Chemistry (all)
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