Three lenses on the multinational enterprise: Politics, corruption, and corporate social responsibility

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 733-746

  Rodriguez, Peter ^a   Siegel, Donald S ^b   Hillman, Amy ^c   Eden, Lorraine ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business and society; Business government relations; Corporate political strategies; Corporate social responsibility; Corruption; Politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750854634     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400229     Document Type: Review

References (70)

1. Baron, D.P. (1995) 'Integrated strategy: market and nonmarket components', California Management Review 37(3): 47-65.
2. Baron, D.P. (2001) 'Private politics, corporate social responsibility and integrated strategy', Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 10(1): 7-45.
3. Bartlett, C.A. and Ghoshal, S. (1989) Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution, Harvard Business School Press: Boston, MA.
4. Baysinger, B. (1984) 'Domain maintenance as an objective of business political activity: an expanded typology', Academy of Management Review 9(2): 248-258.
5. Blumentritt, T.P. (2003) 'Foreign subsidiaries' government affairs activities: the influences of managers and resources', Business and Society 42(2): 202-233.
6. Blumentritt, T.P. and Nigh, D. (2002) 'The integration of subsidiary political activities in multinational corporations', Journal of International Business Studies 33(1): 57-78.
7. Boddewyn, J. (1975) 'Multinational Business-Government Relations: Six Principles for Effectiveness', in P. Boarman and H. Schollhammer (eds.) Multinational Corporations and Governments: Business-Government Relations in an International Context, Praeger: New York, pp: 193-202.
8. Boddewyn, J. (1988) 'Political aspects of MNE theory', Journal of International Business Studies 19(1): 341-363.
9. Boddewyn, J. (1993) 'Political resources and markets in international business: beyond porter's generic strategies', in A. Rugman and A. Verbeke (eds.) Research in Global Strategic Management, Vol. 4, JAI Press: Greenwich, CT, pp: 162-184.
10. Boddewyn, J. and Brewer, T.L. (1994) 'International business political behavior: new theoretical directions', Academy of Management Review 19(1): 119-143.
11. Bonardi, J.P. (2004) 'Global and political strategies in deregulated industries: the asymmetric behaviors of former monopolies', Strategic Management Journal 25(2): 101-120.
12. Brewer, T. (1992) 'An issue-area approach to the analysis of MNE-government relations', Journal of International Business Studies 23(2): 295-309.
13. Campos, J.E., Lien, D. and Pradhan, S. (1999) 'The impact of corruption on investment: predictability matters', World Development 27(6): 1059-1067.
14. Coen, D. (1997) 'The evolution of the large firm as a political actor in the European Union', Journal of European Public Policy 4(1): 91-108.
15. Cowles, M. (2001) 'The transatlantic business dialogue and domestic business-government relations', in M. Cowles, J. Caporaso and T. Risse (eds.) Transforming Europe: Europeanization and Domestic Change, Cornell University Press: Ithaca NY, pp 159-179.
16. Djankov, S., La Porta, R., Lopez-de-Silanes, F. and Shleifer, A. (2002) 'The regulation of entry', The Quarterly Journal of Economics 112(1): 1-37.
17. Djankov, S., La Porta, R., Lopez-de-Silanes, F. and Shleifer, A. (2005) 'The law and economics of self dealing', NBER Working Paper no. 11883.
18. Doh, J., Rodriguez, P., Uhlenbruck, K., Collins, J. and Eden, L. (2003) 'Coping with corruption in foreign markets', Academy of Management Executive 17(3): 114-127.
19. Dunning, J.H. (1992) Multinational Enterprises and the Global Economy, Addison-Wesley: Wokingham.
20. Dunning, J. (1993) The Globalization of Business, Routledge: London.
21. Eden, L. and Lenway, S. (2001) 'Multinationals: the Janus face of globalization', Journal of International Business Studies 32(3): 383-400.
22. Eden, L. and Molot, M.A. (2002) 'Insiders, outsiders and host country bargains', Journal of International Management 8(4): 359-433.
23. Fagre, N. and Wells, L.T. (1982) 'Bargaining power of multinationals and host governments', Journal of International Business Studies 13(Fall): 9-24.
24. Feddersen, T. and Gilligan, T. (2001) 'Saints and markets: activists and the supply of credence goods', Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 10(1): 149-171.
25. Giraudo, J.P. (2005) 'Charitable contributions and the FCPA: Schering plough and the increasing scope of SEC enforcement', The Business Lawyer 61(4): 135-154.
26. Grosse, R. (1996) 'The bargaining relationship between foreign MNEs and host governments in Latin America', International Trade Journal 10(4): 467-499.
27. Grosse, R. and Behrman, J. (1992) 'Theory in international business', Transnational Corporations 1(1): 93-133.
28. Habib, M. and Zurawicki, L. (2002) 'Corruption and foreign direct investment', Journal of International Business Studies 33(2): 291-307.
29. Hart, S. (1995) 'A natural resource-based view of the firm', Academy of Management Review 20(4): 986-1014.
30. Henisz, W. (2000) 'The Institutional environment for multinational investment,' Journal of Law Economics and Organizations 16(2): 334-364.
31. Hillman, A. (2003) 'Determinants of political strategies in US multinationals', Business and Society 42(4): 455-484.
32. Hillman, A. and Hitt, M.A. (1999) 'Corporate political strategy formulation: a model of approach, participation and strategy decisions', Academy of Management Review 24(4): 825-842.
33. Hillman, A. and Keim, G. (1995) 'International variation in the business-government interface: institutional and organizational considerations', Academy of Management Review 20(1): 193-214.
34. Hillman, A. and Keim, G. (2001) 'Shareholder value, stakeholder management, and social issues: what's the bottom line?' Strategic Management Journal 22(2): 125-139.
35. Hillman, A., Keim, G. and Schuler, D. (2004) 'Corporate political activity: a review and research agenda', Journal of Management 30(6): 837-857.
36. Hillman, A. and Wan, W. (2005) 'The determinants of MNE subsidiaries' political strategies: evidence of institutional duality', Journal of International Business Studies 36(3): 322-340.
37. House, R.J, Hanges, P.M., Javidan, M., Dorfman, P. and Gupta, V. (2004) Culture, Leadership and Organizations: The GLOBE Study of 62 Societies, Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA.
38. Husted, B. (1999) 'Wealth, culture and corruption', Journal of International Business Studies 30(2): 339-360.
39. Johnson, S., La Porta, R., Lopez-de-Silanes, F. and Shleifer, A. (2000) 'Tunneling', American Economic Review 90(1): 22-27.
40. Kim, W.C. (1988) 'The effects of competition and corporate political responsiveness on multinational bargaining power', Strategic Management Journal 9(2): 289-295.
41. Luo, Y. (2001) 'Toward a cooperative view of MNE-host government relation building blocks and performance implications', Journal of International Business Studies 32(3): 401-419.
42. Margolis, J.D. and Walsh, J. (2001) People and Profits? The Search for a Link Between a Firm's Social and Financial Performance, Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers: Mahwah, NJ.
43. Marvel, H. (1977) 'Factory regulation: a reinterpretation of early English experience', Journal of Law and Economics 20(1): 379-402.
44. Mauro, P. (1995) 'Corruption and growth', Quarterly Journal of Economics 110(3): 681-712.
45. McWilliams, A. and Siegel, D. (1997) 'Event studies in management research: theoretical and empirical issues', Academy of Management Journal 40(3): 626-657.
46. McWilliams, A. and Siegel, D. (2000) 'Corporate social responsibility and financial performance: correlation or misspecification?' Strategic Management Journal 21(5): 603-609.
47. McWilliams, A. and Siegel, D. (2001) 'Corporate social responsibility: a theory of the firm perspective', Academy of Management Review 26(1): 117-127.
48. McWilliams, A., Siegel, D. and Teoh, S.H. (1999) 'Issues in the use of the event study methodology: a critical analysis of corporate social responsibility studies', Organizational Research Methods 2(4): 340-365.
49. McWilliams, A., Van Fleet, D.D. and Cory, K. (2002) 'Raising rivals' costs through political strategy: an extension of the resource-based theory', Journal of Management Studies 39(5): 707-723.
50. Moran, T. (1985) Multinational Corporations: The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment, Lexington Books: Lexington, MA.
51. Murtha, T. and Lenway, S. (1994) 'Country capabilities and the strategic state: how national political institutions affect multinational corporations' strategies', Strategic Management Journal 15(summer special issue): 113-129.
52. Orlitzky, M., Schmidt, F. and Rynes, S. (2003) 'Corporate social and financial performance: a meta-analysis', Organization Studies 24(3): 403-441.
53. Ring, P.S., Lenway, S. and Govekar, M. (1990) 'Management of the political imperative in international business', Strategic Management Journal 11(2): 141-151.
54. Robertson, C.J. and Watson, A. (2004) 'Corruption and change: the impact of foreign direct investment', Strategic Management Journal 25(4): 385-396.
55. Rodriguez, P., Uhlenbruck, K. and Eden, L. (2005) 'Government corruption and the entry strategies of multinationals', Academy of Management Review 30(2): 383-396.
56. Rugman, A. and Verbeke, A. (1993) 'Generic Strategies in Global Competition', in A. Rugman and A. Verbeke (eds.) Research in Global Strategic Management, vol. 4, JAI Press: Greenwich CT, pp: 1-18.
57. Russo, M. and Fouts, P. (1997) 'A resource-based perspective on corporate environmental performance and profitability', Academy of Management Journal 40(3): 534-559.
58. Shaffer, B. (1995) 'Firm-level responses to government regulation: theoretical and research approaches', Journal of Management 21(3): 495-514.
59. Siegel, D.S. (2001) 'Do British companies really need a minister to make them socially responsible?' Parliamentary Brief 7: 7-8 (special supplement on Business and the Community).
60. Siegel, D.S. and Vitaliano, D.F. (2006) 'An empirical analysis of the strategic use of corporate social responsibility', Department of Economics Working Paper #0602, January, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
61. Smarzynska, B. and Wei, S.-J. (2000) 'Corruption and the composition of foreign direct investment: firm-level evidence', NBER Working Paper No. 7969, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.
62. Sundaram, A.K. and Black, J.S. (1992) 'The environment and internal organization of multinational enterprises', Academy of Management Review 17(4): 729-757.
63. Svensson, J. (2003) 'Who must pay bribes and how much? Evidence from a cross section of firms,' The Quarterly Journal of Economics 118(1): 207-230.
64. Svensson, J. (2005) 'Eight questions about corruption', Journal of Economic Perspectives 19(3): 19-42.
65. Treisman, D. (2000) 'The causes of corruption: a cross-national study', Journal of Public Economics 67(3): 399-457.
66. Uhlenbruck, K., Rodriguez, P., Doh, J. and Eden, L. (2006) 'The impact of corruption on entry strategy: evidence from telecommunication projects in emerging economies', Organization Science 17(3): 402-414.
67. Vernon, R. (1971) Sovereignty at Bay, Basic Books: New York.
68. Waddock, S. and Graves, S. (1997) 'The corporate social performance-financial performance link', Strategic Management Journal 18(4): 303-319.
69. Wei, S-J. (2000) 'How taxing is corruption on international investors?', Review of Economics and Statistics 82(1): 1-11.
70. Wright, P. and Ferris, S. (1997) 'Agency conflict and corporate strategy: the effect of divestment on corporate value', Strategic Management Journal 18(1): 77-83.