Interorganizational Learning and the Location of Manufacturing Subsidiaries: Is Chain Migration Also a Corporate Behavior?

Corruption and private participation infrastructure projects: The influence of vicarious experience and national animosity

“…Previous studies have found vicarious experience to have a positive impact on investment flow (Henisz and Delios 2001; Guillén 2002; Bastos and Greve 2003), acquisitions (Chakrabarti and Mitchell 2016), and survival rates (Ingram and Baum 1997; Chuang and Baum 2003). Organizational learning theory (Cyert and March 1963; Levitt and March 1988; Huber 1991) posits that firms can deal with uncertainty not only through their own direct experience but also through that of other firms (Guillén 2002).…”

“…Organizational learning theory (Cyert and March 1963; Levitt and March 1988; Huber 1991) posits that firms can deal with uncertainty not only through their own direct experience but also through that of other firms (Guillén 2002). Decisions and actions undertaken by other firms represent a valuable source of learning, knowledge spillovers, interorganizational imitation, and signalling of opportunities (Shaver et al 1997; Bastos and Greve 2003). As a result, companies can implement more adaptable strategies (Argote et al 1990; Lieberman and Asaba 2006; Alcacer and Chung 2007) and benefit from greater opportunities to acquire knowledge, develop capabilities, and access to networks (Terlaak and Gong 2008; Jiménez and de la Fuente 2016).…”

“…Firms from the same sector tend to receive greater attention since they face similar or equivalent challenges and opportunities and are equipped with relatively comparable resources (Ingram & Simons 2002). Imitation and monitoring among companies in the same sector is common (Henisz and Delios 2001) not only to try to find new sources of strategic advantage (Bastos and Greve 2003), but also because it facilitates the justification of some decisions adopted toward affected stakeholders, based on the fact that other peer firms also adopted them (Guillén 2002).…”

Firm- and Country-Level Trade-offs and Contingencies in the Evaluation of Foreign Investment: The Semiconductor Industry, 1994–2002

“…These measures are one-year-lagged measures of gross domestic product per capita and current population that are computed annually for the 1993-2001 period, and entered as logged variables in the empirical specification. We also control for mimetic effects that can lead foreign investors to follow the herd and invest in the hot country of the moment (Bastos and Greve 2003). Specifically, we include a count of foreign-owned fabs opened within a host country over the past five years.…”

Confidence in learning: Inter‐ and intraorganizational learning in foreign market entry decisions

“…Based on the interorganizational learning framework (Ingram, ), we explore how the nature of the target organizations affects the confidence of a copying organization in learning, and how the nature of the learning organization's experience interacts with its learning from target firms. The empirical context was location choice by U.S. manufacturing firms investing in China, a decision of strategic importance to any multinational firm (Bastos and Greve, ; Henisz and Delios, ).…”