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The Effect of Regulative Institutional Distance on Chinese Overseas Subsidiaries’ Choice of International Entry Modes |
Li Kanghong1,Lin Runhui2,Li Ya2,Zhou Changbao2 |
1. Business School of Yangzhou University,Yangzhou 225127, China;
2. Business School of Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China |
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Abstract The paper addresses the relationship between institutional distance of regulation and Chinese enterprises’ overseas market entry modes.It focuses on the impact of favorable and unfavorable institutional distance on enterprises’ decision-making. Based on the above, the paper examines the impact of the interaction between the openness of a host country’s market and institutional distance on multinationals’ overseas equity entry modes. The research finds that in the case of favorable regulative institutional balance, foreign enterprises tend to build a joint-venture subsidiary, as the regulative institutional differences between the host country and the mother country increase. In the case of unfavorable regulative institutional balance, foreign enterprises tend to set up a wholly-owned subsidiary, as the institutional difference between the host country and the mother country increase. Besides, the openness of the host country plays a significantly regulatory role in the two above pairs of relationships
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Received: 20 January 2016
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