Institutional Theory in International Business and Management

Institutional theory has been used increasingly by international business and management researchers to explain the behaviour and strategies of multinational enterprises. If early international business research was dominated by the application of transaction cost and neoclassical economics, reviews of recent publications and conference programmes suggest that the past decade has been dominated by the application of institutional theory. This volume represents the collection of an eclectic mix of contemporary research by leading and emerging scholars working on institutional theory. The contributions present new theoretical frameworks of institutions and propose interesting ideas that will provide the foundation for doctoral dissertations and research projections. The collection of research published in this volume reveals how taking an institutional theory perspective can open up a number of interesting directions for international business and management research.