Institutional Distance, Regional Clusters and Performance of Foreign Subsidiaries: Evidences from Brazil

Petry, Jonas Fernando; Amal, Mohamed; Floriani, Dinorá Eliete

doi:10.15728/bbr.2018.15.3.6

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“…A trajetória de pesquisa envolvendo os agrupamentos empresariais geograficamente concentrados teve início no final do século XIX iniciada por Alfred Marshall, e fortalecida dentre outros pesquisadores, por Giacomo Beccatini; que observaram os distritos industriais anglo-saxões e italianos, ressaltando as externalidades positivas derivadas da proximidade geográfica e da ação conjunta (Cassanego et al, 2019). Tais externalidades podem ser atribuídas, principalmente, ao compartilhamento de bases institucionais e sociais comuns, dentro de um contexto de produção especializada e geograficamente agrupada (Petry, Amal & Floriani, 2018;Parrilli & Sacchetti 2008).…”

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Organizações de apoio no auxílio à governança em clusters competitivos

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Objective: To analyze how support organizations act on governance, specifically on competitive factors: cluster-oriented outcome strategies, and evolutionary character through the introduction of technologies.Methodology / Approach: A multiple case study was carried out in the Health Sciences clusters of Ribeirão Preto - Brazil, and the Oxfordshire Health Science Cluster - England.Originality / Relevance: This study sheds light on support organizations' potential to develop activities that reinforce clusters' governance, especially concerning strategic direction and support for innovation.Main Results: The results show and reinforce the importance of support organizations for governance and their positive influence on competitiveness. In practical terms, it highlights the importance that such organizations have for the development of strategies that favor the community and promote and disseminate technological development in the region.Theoretical/methodological contributions: The work contributes theoretically by supporting, with evidence, the importance of support organizations for the cluster's governance, advancing the understanding of relationship network theory when considering the weakest ties in the competitiveness of clusters. The methodological and managerial benefit consists of offering a matrix of six activities that can be investigated in future research and/or used by the clusters' managers, indicating that such actions can and should include the support organizations.

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Organizações de apoio no auxílio à governança em clusters competitivos

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“…Although the effect of special zones on attraction of FDI is already well-documented (Petry et al, 2018), the vast majority of articles use it as a determinant. The next most frequently investigated determinants are quality of institutions and tax levels.…”

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The OLI Paradigm as a comprehensive model of FDI determinants: a sub-national approach

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Floriani

Amal

2020

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PurposeThis study aims to advance a sub-national perspective within the OLI Paradigm by analyzing how and to what extent the Eclectic Paradigm can serve as a general model to capture region-specific aspects of the location determinants of FDI, encompassing institutional effects that extend beyond the quality of institutions.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a systematic literature review of 41 selected papers published between 1990 and 2019. Using inductive content analysis, they investigated the theoretical choices used to support analyses of the effects of institutional factors on MNEs' location decisions at the sub-national level.FindingsIt was found that, when changing from the national to the sub-national level of analysis, there is no need to change the main assumptions used in the literature, although a different perspective must be adopted. The Eclectic Paradigm permeates most of the studies revised and can serve as a general model to capture the sub-national perspective. It offers a foundation for new perspectives on the dynamics of institutional and political factors and their effects on location strategies and determinants at the sub-national level. Adopting the OLI Paradigm with a sub-national approach could widen the IB literature's prevailing focus on traditional economic factors and institutional quality.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors contribute to extant International Business literature Their paper enhances the literature on FDI location determinants by providing a more specific approach to development of a sub-national perspective within the OLI Paradigm, extending the institutional effects to capture more region-specific factors influencing the location of FDI. Study limitations are related to our analytical focus on the location dimension, excluding motives for FDI or firm-level location strategies. Rather than limiting analysis to quantitative studies, future research that includes qualitative studies and also covers the other dimensions of the OLI Paradigm could open additional new research avenues for advancing the sub-national perspective within the field of IB.Practical implicationsThe authors’ main findings suggest that MNEs' location strategies should include a sub-national perspective, which means that firms need to assess different levels of the location and understand their interaction with nationwide constraints and limitations, as it may affect firms' ability to effectively conduct their value-adding activities. They also contribute elements that can support sub-national governments' actions and policies aiming to enhance locational advantages to attract and retain FDI.Originality/valueThis review specifically analyzes the location determinants of FDI at the sub-national level, in studies published in a broad set of journals, from a variety of fields, prioritizing articles that investigate sub-national institutional determinants. The authors derive implications for the International Business literature and propose that the sub-national dimension should be incorporated into the Eclectic paradigm in order to better understand the influence of institutional sub-national determinants.

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